Bendii Syndrome

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Bendii Syndrome is a degenerative neurological illness, affecting only Vulcans over the age of two hundred.

Early symptoms of the disease include sudden bursts of emotion (often irrational anger), and eventually all emotional control would be lost.
Diagnosis can be made by culturing tissue samples taken from the patient's metathalamus (part of the brain), though the results of this test can take several days.


A dangerous side effect of Bendii Syndrome is that the loss of emotional control can be telepathically projected to others.

  • Vulcans were able to resist the emotional projections, but in the presence of non-Vulcans, the emotions could cause outbreaks of anger and violence.
  • An attending Vulcan telepath can keep these projections under control
    However, when the sufferer is particularly stressed, the side effect could overwhelm such efforts.


By 2366, Bendii Syndrome was considered more of a "folk tale" than a disease, since there were no recorded cases since at least 2165.


Ambassador Sarek was afflicted at the age of 201, and his struggle with the condition ended two years later in 2368, when he died.