Ambassador Sarek: Forgive me. It is not here. I had assumed he mind-melded with you. It is the Vulcan way when the body's end is near.
James T. Kirk: We were separated. He couldn't touch me.
Ambassador Sarek: I see.

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When Sarek learns that Kirk did not mind-meld with Spock, Kirk tells him that that circumstances at the time made it impossible.

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