I’ve been having trouble mastering this technique. A little help here?
Grab your victim over the shoulder, where it meets the neck–you’ll need a lot of finger strength for this, because you don’t want them to slip away from you. This grip will both keep them from getting away–and make them more receptive to the next step.
Keeping a powerful hand on them–drag them in closer to you–and then lean in with your head–and start whispering bad movie cliches into their ear. Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood, and Kurt Russell movies work especially well.
By ‘overloading’ the receptors in the brain that try to make sense out of these bad, sometimes nonsensical verbal interjections–the receptors will, in turn, shut the entire brain off completely to spare it from further gibberish. When you see the eyes roll into the back of the head, and the head fall over lifelessly–you know it’s worked.
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Ashtar next time put a space in, 'Mkay? Besides, there ain’t a Vulcan “death grip” unless they’ve so totally screwed things up in Enterprise that the franchise has lost all meaning.
Ah. That explains everything.
Now the way I do the fingers to the neck thing is just a diversion. The syringe to the buttocks is where the real action is.
Sorry about that. I didn’t realize it wouldn’t wrap properly.
If I remembers correctly the grip is instinctive, you will know how to use it when necessary.
nope. The Nerve Pinch is grabbing the shoulder. In the * Enterprise Incident * he grabs Kirk by the face, sticks a finger in his face, and says he used the death grip. They take Kirk’s “body” back, and revive him. They say there is no such thing as the death grip, it was all a ruse.
If the “death grip” is ever used seriously in an episode, novel, or fan fiction story, it simply betrays lack of knowledge on the part of the writer. As lurker pointed out, the grip was a deliberate ruse, and the characters (specifically Nurse Chapel) observed calmly there that was no such thing. Another example is a character in a comic book adaptation or whatnot referring to “fizzbin” as a legitimate card game, when it was also portrayed as a ruse.
One of the more egregious examples that comes to mind was a Saturday Night Live sketch that portrayed a bizarre Star Trek/Love Boat hybrid. Bernie Kopell (who played the ship’s doctor on Love Boat) had a cameo and he was complaining to the Isaac/Geordi bartender that he’d had a date with a Cardassian and found out (too late) that it was a male! Horrors!
Trouble is: if you don’t know anything about Star Trek, you don’t know what a “Cardassian” is, and the joke isn’t funny, and if you do know anything about Star Trek, you know that distinguishing male and female characters is easy, and the joke still isn’t funny. The studio audience, no doubt a mix of fans and non-fans, chuckled feebly.
For the sake of dropping a few Trek catch-phrases here and there, the writers abandon all attempts at accuracy. I can’t say I’m offended (to do so would be to admit to geekery in the extreme) but I am put off by their sheer laziness at using terminology without even bothering to understand what it refers to.
Yes, yes. Of course. Now tell me how to do the darned thing.