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====Vulcan nerve pinch====
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Vulcans are capable of a technique known as the "[[Vulcan nerve pinch]]" or "neck pinch", which targets a location on the neck between the head and the shoulder that renders the victim unconscious. The pinch was first seen in the ''TOS'' episode "[[The Naked Time]]". The mechanics of the pinch have never been explained. While practiced mainly by Vulcans, it is apparently not exclusive to their race. [[Jonathan Archer]] and [[Jean-Luc Picard]] both use the technique after becoming involved in Vulcan telepathic rituals (Archer holding the katra of Surak, Picard having undergone a [[#Mind melds|mind-meld]] with [[Sarek]]). [[Seven of Nine]] is depicted as capable of using this ability in the episode of ''Voyager'' "[[The Raven (Star Trek: Voyager)|The Raven]]". The android [[Data (Star Trek)|Data]] also displayed this ability in the ''TNG'' episode "[[Unification (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Unification, Part II]]," which Spock described as "not bad." In Star Trek: Discovery, Michael Burnham does the nerve pinch on Captain Philippa Georgiou and commits mutiny.

The neck pinch itself (referred to in scripts as "FSNP", or "Famous Spock Neck Pinch"<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Star trek encyclopedia : a reference guide to the future|last=Michael|first=Okuda|date=1999|publisher=Pocket Books|others=Okuda, Denise., Drexler, Doug.|isbn=0671034758|edition= Updated and expanded|location=New York|pages=550|oclc=42837231}}</ref>) was created by Leonard Nimoy, who objected to a scene in "[[The Enemy Within (Star Trek: The Original Series)|The Enemy Within]]", in which a transporter malfunction had divided Kirk between his good and evil selves, that required Spock to render the "evil" Kirk unconscious and subduing him by hitting him over the head with the butt of a phaser. Nimoy was convinced that such overt violence, in addition to being too similar to that found in many crime dramas of the time, was uncharacteristic of the strictly-logical Spock, and suggested the neck pinch as a less-emotional alternative.<ref>{{Cite press release|last=Cushman|first=Marc|title=The Day Leonard Nimoy Created Spock's Neck-Pinch|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-day-leonard-nimoy-created-spocks-neck-pinch-300044568.html|access-date=2021-10-27|website=www.prnewswire.com|language=en}}</ref>