Star Trek tech: Mindmelds are bullshit.

All right, for the uninitiated, let's look at what we're talking about.

In Star Trek, Spock (or, another Vulcan), touches a person's head, says "my mind...to your mind...my thoughts...to your thoughts...", and then, he's essentially hacked into your brain.

Well...maybe if he's got some kind of electronic implants, but..he does this with just his hands.

Okay, maybe Vulcans have a super-duper nervous system that was genetically enhanced in their ancient past, and forgotten about, and now they've ritualized this nervous hacking power.

Only there's a problem, on several occasions, the meld is established by touch, and then maintained without it.
A nervous system with wireless mode?
Bullshit.

Now, Seven Of Nine from Voyager has tech all through her, that I can let slide.
She can actually plug into things, and has a transmitter.
When you think about it, good-Borg are a modern upgrade of Vulcans.

Now, get this, in the Voyager episode "Unimatrix Zero", Seven is logged into Unimatrix Zero, a sort of secret underground VR for Borg drones, and Tuvok mindmelds in via her fleshy human forehead bits, and then also mindmelds Janeway in, and then, get this, Janeway's virtual self appears on the Borg Queen's viewscreen!

So...a mindmeld is a hack.

SO...they ought to be able to use Vulcan brains as wireless modems.

And if they could do that, then, why not clone Vulcan brain tissue, and have Vulcan flavored bio-neural gel-packs for the ship's computer?

Then, just imagine the shit you could do.

One of Spock's powers is going into a healing trance.
Well, imagine a person mindmelded to a whole bio-neural ship's computer, and pounding ship's power into a healing trance!
Everyone would instantly regenerate like Wolverine!

Ah, but get this, in the episode "Plato's stepchildren", a compound called Kironide bestows telekinesis.
So, imagine our Vulcan-gel-pak computer soaking in this stuff, and able to blast other ships with waves of kinesis.
Or, in combination with the healing trance, being able to self-repair the ship!
Eh? See?

It quickly becomes clear, that magic does indeed exist in Trek, and if they properly exploited it, Starfleet should be friggin' invincible.

But, that'd blow the lid off, and disintegrate the (already strained) scientific plausibility, and turn the show into Charmed (in space!).

It all went to hell, really, with 60's SF writers, particularly Roddenberry, thinking there might be something to ESP.
Well, we fucking know better now.
If Trek is gonna live another 40 years, we gotta get that stuff outta there.
Or, else retcon an explanation.

I've got it down to 2...

1.) before the Vulcans nuked themselves back to the stone age, necessitating Surak's social revolution, their tech was a LOT higher, and they had reached the level of good-Borg, except, their implants were cloaked, and phased, and their cloaked-phased nanites pass along with their genes, and, even TNG-era tech can't detect them yet, and the nuclear war on Vulcan made everyone who knew about it die, and they got cultural amnesia about it.

2.) Matrix magic. They're physically plugged in in the real world, and can hack into other people's pods, and it manifests as "ESP", in the fake world.

All this would have to cover all the other touchless telepaths like Betazeds too....

They once attempted an explanation for ESP in Trek, I forget the episode, but...something along the lines of their brains can both imprint messages on, and receive messages from, the subatomic particles that buzz around, and pass through all of us all of the time.

Bullshit.
Quantum phenomena happen on a massively smaller scale than neuron firings, and can't effect jack-fucking-squat.
In terms of scale, it's like saying a laser pointer can push the moon.
That's some full blown Deepak Chopra shit.
And if you don't know Chopra is full of shit, as Lewis Black would say, I want you to wear tinfoil so I can see where you are.

Also, particles can't explain why telepaths have felt things across light year distances.
Unless they're picking up fucking tachyons too.
See how ridiculous it gets?

Nope, either telepathy has to be booted out, or, we just have to accept Trek is a woo laden show.

It inspired a lot of computer geeks, and gave us internet, and I-pads, but...we've pretty much hit the wall for it being the blueprint for our future, unless some clever writers can give it an overhaul.