That was telepathy, and it’s been in the ST universe since TOS. It’s had many different uses. In one episdoe, Spock mind-melds with the away team crew so they will completely disbeleive the illusory cobwboys shooting bullets at them, thus winning the shootout at the OK corral, or something like that.
In “The Search for Spock” movie, Sarek mind melds with McCoy and filters out the thoughts that are Spock’s so he can put them in Spock’s brand new body.
It’s called mind-melding. As pointed out already, Vulcans are telepathic, though generally they touch to facilitate the use of their powers. Spock is probably a good deal more powerful telepathically than Deanna Troi, though of course she has better boobs.
I thought it was funny how Spock says “I don’t have time to tell you everything! A mind meld will be quicker!” Then the mind meld takes exactly as long as it would to tell it.
Although it included pictures too, so I guess that’s a bonus.
Oops. Wrong word.
That’s kind of crazy stuff. Who knows, maybe I would like the series. It’s just that I’m pretty ridged. I would look for times where the power should have been used, but weren’t.
I…
I don’t think the mind-meld took nearly as long from the POV of Kirk’s wristwatch as it did to show on screen. It’s just that it would have been impractical to have Leonard Nimoy go to every person watching the movie, one at a time, and upload all that information. He’s pretty old, after all. 
Are we sure Sulu was the one hiding in the plasma conduits?
Are you a Klingon?
You know, of all the things that – afterward – made kinda no sense in this movie, the one that bothered me during the movie was this: where the heck did Spock Prime get wood on Delta Vega, for his convenient torch-and-campfire? I mean, seriously, all we see for miles around is arctic wasteland. NO TREES.
… Well, actually there were two things that bothered me during the movie, but the Augustus Gloop tubes being clear even though all they do is transport a clear “inert reactant” probably is only bothersome to other engineers.
Hang on a minute, let me wave this tribble near him…
I’ll just write this movie off and hope the second one is better. It worked 30 years ago, after all.
Hey, one episode of Enterprise, Phlox says “his lungs have been thermalized!!” Wow, Doc, you mean they’re burned?:smack:
The mods have rules about us beaming excess Tribbles off onto other message boards remember…
One thing I must ask those who were displeased with this film, what on Earth did you think Star Trek was all about? Really?
I remember the show as something that was quite simply silly campy fun. Sure, it reflected the times it was produced in (Klingon Empire = The Soviet Union etc) but it reflected other things too. Such as Gene Roddenberry’s antics on the casting couch for a start 
Trek didn’t have the first interracial kiss, the Russian crew member was there because he looked like a member of the Monkees, women wore very mini-skirts and looked for strong roles on other shows on other networks and so forth.
Later Trek tried to work on what wasn’t really there and just didn’t work out quite right. TNG had some decent characters, but in the three series after, everything just seemed a little tired and hoary.
This film brings us full circle and back to the good bits that ranged from Balance of Terror to Spock’s Brain. Maybe I could go for something a little bit more wordy next time round, but right now I’m just thinking of heading out and catching it one more time before picking up the DVD 
As Anna Russell said
From here
Just curious - did you watch TOS when it first came out, or later? As an sf fan who watched it from the beginning, ST was the first SF series on TV with both good scripts and a believable universe, which developed nicely over time. The anthology series that predated ST were good, but for episodic TV the shows before ST were pure kiddie shows - and I was a kiddie at the time.
I remember seeing original episodes (including, Og help me, “Spock’s Brain”) when they first aired, or maybe very soon after. It really was the first sf series for me. I didn’t see Twilight Zone, for instance, until years later.
Free pizza? Did someone say free pizza?
My translation remains the more accurate.
Anna Russell rocks.
It was the first TV series, not for kiddies, that I remember. First bit of SF I remember aside from Doctor Who. And yeah, I got at the time that the whole thing seemed very well rounded and polished. I never got that strange feeling of alienation from other films and odd series that popped up from time to time. Even back then I knew that this was our universe, just a little bit foward in time.
Someone please explain why Spock kneeled down before being transported to Vulcan.