Vulcan nerve pinch
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In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Vulcan nerve pinch is a technique used mainly by Vulcans to render unconsciousness by pinching a pressure point at the base of the victim's neck.
Spock using the Vulcan neck pinch, from the third-season episode "And the Children Shall Lead" (1968)
Nimoy 'demonstrating' the Vulcan nerve pinch.
Eugene McCarthy
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Eugene Joseph McCarthy was an American politician, writer, and academic who represented Minnesota in both houses of the United States Congress for over 22 years, first in the U.S. House of Representat
Vulcan nerve pinch
…1966) stated that Spock "kayoes" (Knocks Out) Captain Kirk (William Shatner)'s duplicate, but Leonard Nimoy, who opposed the Vietnam War and supported Eugene McCarthy, felt that such a brutal action would be unnecessarily violent for a Vulcan. He therefore invented an alternative by suggesting that Vulcans may know…
1964 portrait
McCarthy with President John F. Kennedy
Portrait of McCarthy, c. 1965
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