"A statistical scan was a type of scan performed by Vulcan survey ships to measure statistical information about a planet. In 1958, Mestral expressed his disdain at only being able to perform statistical scans on the planet Earth from a high orbit rather than living on the planet's surface and interacting with its Human inhabitants. (ENT: \"Carbon Creek\")"@en . . "A statistical scan was a type of scan performed by Vulcan survey ships to measure statistical information about a planet. In 1958, Mestral expressed his disdain at only being able to perform statistical scans on the planet Earth from a high orbit rather than living on the planet's surface and interacting with its Human inhabitants. (ENT: \"Carbon Creek\")"@en . "Statistical scan"@en . . .