Star Trek

In "Lower Decks," Worf tests Ensign Sito Jaxa by telling her to put on a blindfold.  Later, he tells her he just invented that, to test her strength of character.

However, the Japanese samurai have a technique (or school) called Yami, which teaches both offensive and defensive techniques to use, when one is battling in complete darkness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui%C5%8D-ry%C5%AB

soooooooooooooooo, whats your point?

He wasnt trying to teaher her how to defend herself in darkness.

He was trying to teah her how to stasnd up for herself

I dunno, I always just felt weird watching that scene. This huge hulking guy in Worf beating the crap out of a little woman in Sito, who's blind on top of it all.

"The Gik'tal is an ancient Klingon technique in which the male beats the crap out of the female until she protests or mating ensues."

I realize why Worf did that, but I think it is interesting that the Japanese martial arts have a technique that enables one to fight as if blindfolded, although the Japanese system also would make the opponent unable to see.

I know the two aren't actually related, but I thought the existence of such training was extremely fascinating!