Tuvok: “Brain rape?”
Janeway: “No brain rape.”
Tuvok: “Pleeeeeeeeease?”
Seriously, when you go back and watch Star Trek you realize how many of those mind melds are unsolicited or coerced. The scene in Star Trek VI is still pretty raunchy.
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ENT has a good story arch that uses mind meld as an allegory for rape
Fits in general with the fact that, as far as I'm concerned, Vulcans are a near 1:1 to Republicans. They're pretty fucking xenophobic unless they can get something out of it, present themselves constantly as the superior option even going so far as to gaslight humanity into thinking (For a while) that they cannot lie. They suppress the fuck out of emotion, or so they claim, while letting it rule shit constantly and arguing that logic is actually whats fueling shit (rarely if ever is that true on a grand scale).
Vulcans are assholes. The only Vulcans we deal with and generally like happen to be not complete douchebags and are a-typical Vulcans. Spock is a half-n-half, Tuvok had his own nightmarish backstory dealing with that, T'lyn gets kicked out to Starfleet because she stepped out of line. I never liked T'Pol but she at least turned around after a while of being presented with an alternate culture and not their monolithic one.
The more time a Vulcan spends with humans, the more mellowed out they become. T’Pol and Spock more so, Tuvok less so.
The ones who spent their whole lives on Vulcan are the hardliners. Oh… another allegory for the human race. Thanks, Star Trek!
I bet you see some VERY weird, hyper violent and sexual repressed stuff when you mind meld with a Vulcan.
That was (multiple) episodes of Voyager, actually.
Tuvok had problems mind melding with Suder because he was a literal Betazoid psychopath, and later on Tuvok transmitted his own dark thoughts to a bunch of people who were feeding off his memories and overloading them.
That being said, Suder definitely redeemed himself in my eyes. That man was transformed. Tuvok put himself in immense danger but in doing so helped save someone and bring the best in that person out. All of that utterly proven by Suder sacrificing himself for the crew.
Suder might be one of my favorite Voyager-only characters. I think he actually is...