The Rock VS The Borg & Seven of Nine

In this corner, let us present a professional wrestler turned actor - Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock.  In the opposite corner, we give you a cyborg torn from her human family - one Seven of  Nine, played by Jeri Ryan.  Who will emerge victorious in this brutal art of unarmed combat? 

These two beautiful people squared off in the action packed episode, Tsunkatse, on Star Trek: Voyager. After their fictitious pugilistic bout, Jeri Ryan continued in television by joining the cast of Boston Public, while The Rock went on to mega movie fame in huge blockbuster movies.

The Return of Lindsay Ballard to the Starship Voyager

Ensign Lyndsay Ballard (Kim Rhodes) died on an away mission, but that doesn't stop her from returning to her home - the Federation Starship Voyager - commanded by Captain Kathryn Janeway, played by Kate Mulgrew, who also plays Russian prison cook Red on, Orange Is The New Black.

Ballard is back, but she's not the same woman.  She has been resurrected from the dead and both surgically and genetically transformed into a new species by the Kobali - an alien race who scavenges corpses and gives them new life.  Harry Kim tries to kindle something of a romance with the new Ensign Ballard, but the pull of her new race is too strong for them both.  This is one of the most poignant tales of doomed romance on any of the Trek shows.  It's all the more compelling because of the excellent performances of actors Garrett Wang as Harry Kim and Kim Rhodes as Ballard.

Quark's Walk on the Wild Side - Bruce Jenner Would Be Proud

Bruce Jenner captured the world's attention with his highly personal revelation about wanting to become a woman.  Who could have thought that in the colorful Kardashian clan, Jenner would end up standing out more than the others?  Gender reassignment is a highly complex and emotional issue, but as Jenner's comprehensive interview with Diane Sawyer clearly showed us, there's always room for humor.  Yes, comedy is always an effective healing force.

On Deep Space Nine, the mirthful laughter came many times from Quark (Armin Shimmerman) the Ferengi barkeep.  His many run ins with Constable Odo are legendary, and chuckle filled, but then there was the time Quark dressed up....

See for yourself.

Quark wasn't interested in becoming the fair sex permanently, but he did cut an interesting figure as a woman.  Sexy?  Maybe not, but he was certainly alluring - well, for a Ferengi anyway!

Memorial Day

We wish everyone a fun and safe Memorial Day Weekend!

-- The Star Trek Sex Staff

Immortality's Highly Emotional Price

What price immortality?  How about chronic sorrow and loss?  When Kirk's Enterprise comes upon a planet with an odd duo, the Starfleet crew encounters a man who lives forever and one who was never alive at all.

Captain Kirk is captivated by a sexy, young woman - one Rayna Kapec.  Rayna, played by actress Louise Sorel, appears as the worldly man's perfect companion or even his ideal mate.  She's lovely, impressively well read and eternally charming.  She is all these things and can be many more, because she's artificial.  As an android, Rayna can be programmed with many attractive attributes, but the most elusive condition and fragile quality - that of human emotional interaction - eludes her.  Ultimately, it's the female construct's undoing, and a heartbreaking loss for both Flint and James T. Kirk.

Seductive Electric Sex

One of my favorite movie lines of all time is from director Bob Clark's holiday classic, A Christmas Story.  Talking about his father's 'major award', Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) as narrator comments, "Only one thing in the world could've dragged me away from the soft glow of Electric Sex gleaming in the window."

In the original series episode, I, Mudd, slimy conman Harry Mudd makes a return and he's once again surrounded by more than a few hot beauties.  This time, however, the sexual allure isn't from drug enhanced super babes, but more like erotically charged refugees from Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.  Mudd's now mixed himself up with highly advanced artificial intelligence - electric sex in the seductive form of super powerful androids.  Care to get acquainted with them? 

Kira And Her Slinky Mirror Counterpart

Star Trek loves to play around with the alternate universe or mirror universe theory - that there may be other universes and realities much like our own, albeit with certain differences.  Although not officially proven by our science at this relatively rudimentary developmental stage, science fiction like Trek or the TV series, Sliders, uses the concept often and to great dramatic ends.

In Deep Space Nine, the Bajoran Officer Major Kira Nerys has her own mirror counterpart, who, shall we say, is complicated.  She calls herself the Indendant, and all who cross her path and challenge her definitely come to know just how seriously she takes her intentions.

Star Brothers - A Sci-Fi Family Grows

With the coming of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a new book rouses from sleep as well.

With dozens of essays on a host of topics, Star Wars Essays covers everything from Yoda's pixels to C3PO's worthiness as a droid.  Available on Kindle at Amazon today.

X-Men Meet Starfleet's Finest

Actress Famke Jannsen may be best known as the telepathically talented Jean Grey in the X-Men movies, but before romping around trying to take down Magneto (Ian McKellan), she boarded Captain Jean-Luc Picard's Starship Enterprise on the syndicated show, Star Trek: The Next Generation, in the episode, The Perfect Mate.

She played Kamala from Krios Prime, a mysteriously gorgeous alien, who like an intergalactic Geisha girl knew just how to please any man in virtually any way.  In both roles, the luminous Jannsen co-starred with British actor Patrick Stewart who played both TNG's Picard and Professor Xavier, leader and mentor of Marvel's Amazing X-Men.