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Cutting Rhythms, 3rd Edition
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Cutting Rhythms, 3rd Edition

by Karen Pearlman
June 2025
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
6h 48m
English
Routledge
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CHAPTER 11 Collaboration and the Vulcan Mind Meld

DOI: 10.4324/9781003619604-11

In the long-running television series Star Trek, the highly evolved alien race known as Vulcans can do an impressive maneuver called a “Vulcan Mind Meld.” They place their fingers against someone’s head and sonorously chant “your thoughts to mine,” thus downloading the relevant memories, experiences, and thoughts to solve the problem at hand, direct from the other person’s brain to their own.

This chapter is going to propose that an editor/director collaboration at its best, is like a Vulcan Mind Meld, without the laying on of hands, or the sonorous cliché chanting. And that the editor is the Vulcan.

This chapter is near the end of this book because it builds on ...

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