Vulcan death grip
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The Vulcan death grip was a fictitious Vulcan technique, apparently invented by Spock. Its application appeared similar to that of the mind meld, but it was administered with two hands, and without speaking.
In 2268, Spock used the so-called "Vulcan death grip" on Captain Kirk as a means to fool the Romulans into believing Kirk was dead, so as to bring him back on board the USS Enterprise without causing suspicion. Spock claimed that he had used the death grip instinctively in response to an unexpected assault from Kirk.
When informed of the incident, Nurse Christine Chapel exclaimed "But there's no such thing as a Vulcan death grip." Kirk replied that the Romulans did not know that. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")
- In Leonard Nimoy's television special entitled Leonard Nimoy's Star Trek Memories, Nimoy mistakenly remembers that Spock applies the Vulcan Death Grip on Dr. McCoy instead of Captain Kirk.
[edit] Apocrypha
In the non-canon series New Frontier by Peter David, a Vulcan/Romulan hybrid named Soleta does in fact create a Vulcan Deathgrip, to which her captor's echo Nurse Chapel's line. Her reply is that "there is now."
