Summer Vacation On Risa

The staff of Star Trek Sex wishes all our readers a great, fun summer!  We've put off our break, but now we're warping ahead to take that holiday.  We're off to the fabled Risa for our summer vacation.  Who knows when we'll return - but we'll definitely come back!

Have a summer blast!

-- Star Trek Sex Staff

More Essays and Articles from The Final Frontier

Star Trek Essays: Volume III.   You'll find articles on the people, places and things hailing from the United Federation of Planets and beyond; including dozens of essays on the aliens, technology, phenomenon and exotic sexuality of the many races which populate Gene Roddeberry's vast and constantly expanding universe.

This is the third volume in the Star Trek Essays series of Kindle books.  It includes material and coverage of ST: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, and all of the feature films.  Available on Amazon now.

The Lure Of The Borg

We are The Borg.  Resistance is futile.  Indeed.  This cybernetic race won't stop until the galaxy - and beyond - is a loyal part of their ever expanding collective.

Aside from dealing in and committing the standard acts of violence or intimidation, the Borg are unique in their method of the conquer of other races.  They don't just invade and destroy the enemy (indeed, an enemy is a tech source to be acquired), but tempt and seduce others to join their cyborg existence. While it's true the assimilation process into making an individual into an obedient drone isn't clearly understood, there is more than a sense that seduction is somehow involved.  

In Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg Queen tells Captain Picard, "You can't begin to imagine the life you denied yourself."  This is no violent threat, nor promise of a holocaust kind of retribution.  It's clearly an admission from the Borg leader herself that Jean-Luc Picard would have experienced an existence far removed from his known human perceptions.  Would that referenced experience have included an elevated kind of sexuality as is promised and then even shown to Data during the Queen's interrogation of him?  Only Locutus knows...

Sexy Spotlight: Joan Collins - Edith Keeler

British actress Joan Collins holds a special place in pop culture history.  On the primetime TV soap, Dynasty, Collins played Alexis Carrington - the wealthy European socialite who smoothly put the mega rich in elegant bitch. During the 1980's, she served as a true icon of the materialistic oriented decade.  Before mixing it up in nighttime soap opera, Collins played none other than Captain Kirk's lost love - a romance denied to him by the cruel hand of fate and time.

In writer Harlan Ellison's episode, City On The Edge Of Forever, Collins plays social worker Edith Keeler, as a passionate intellectual. She has an unwavering charitable bent to help save the poor, marginalized and downtrodden, and to lift them out of the ghetto.  However, her time as a beneficent angel on Earth is sorely limited - it has to be, or the proper timeline won't be sustained.  A fateful and ultimately fatal incident must play out, or history will be forever and detrimentally changed.

The Love Of Science Fiction - Love & Sex in Sci-Fi

Space... The final frontier... The cosmos....  it's a really, really big place.  They say the most important question we can ask ourselves as a species is:  Are we alone?  Well, it's certainly no fun to be alone, at least all the time.  Like the sci-fi movie Contact (based on Carl Sagan's novel) promotes:  If we are all alone, it seems like an awful waste of space.  In Ridley Scott's Alien, they say, In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream.  Scream - from what, the desperation of loneliness?

Being all alone - even on a crowded planet - is definitely not much fun either.  Fans of Star Trek know that Captain Kirk (William Shatner) wasn't the kind of guy to be lonely for very long.  He may have been a bit too amorous for some of the more prudish among us, but compared to say James Bond, or the devilish Han Solo (Harrison Ford), James T. Kirk wasn't so unusual.  Kirk's crew is also no stranger to the poetry of love, or even the lustful leanings of plain, old fashioned sex.  From Spock to Scotty, Chekov to Uhura, the Enterprise crew knew that partnering up during those demanding space voyages was not only healthy, but downright logical.

Gene Roddenberry Was A Humanist

The Great Bird of the Galaxy, the affectionate nickname for Star Trek writer and creator Gene Roddenberry, was a humanist.  This means that he didn't subscribe to any organized religion like Catholicism, but he felt strongly that the human race should prize reason, logic and the human faculty of intelligence above all other mythological or spiritual conventions.  Roddenberry infused humanist elements into his sci-fi show.

In dealings with sex, sexuality and the ways in which the human race approach procreation, a humanist view assumes that barring the complex issue of overpopulation or venereal disease, human sexuality is a healthy and enjoyable aspect of the species.  When examining the many alien species which populated Star Trek, there's more than a hint of exploring the myriad of human sexual relations.

Take for instance, the Vulcans. Spock, always a highly restrained and self controlled individual, becomes a broken and desperate man when he has to mate in the classic episode, Amok Time.  He must face his Captain in a battle of the death - all to win the amorous hand of a manipulative Vulcan woman named T'Pring.  Here, we clearly see that no amount of prayer or religious thinking will ward off Spock's sexually fueled passions.  It's overpowering biology that rules the day, and in the end, Spock's exploring it fulfills the needs of his alien anatomy, albeit with Captain Kirk nearly paying with his life by engaging in a death battle with his first officer.

Let's Talk About Sex, Captain Kirk

The ultimate dream has been made real.  All those cheap, plastic toys are just that - only cheap, plastic toys. Even those exact replicas that cost you more than most home mortgage payments don't really work. Here now, finally, a fully functional working communicator.  Beam me up, Scotty!

Captain Kirk's cell phone can now be yours - and you can actually use it to call your friends and make them feel inadequate that they don't own the real deal!  Crafted with loving detail by The Wand Co, this nifty piece of Trek Tech is a bluetooth handset for your cell phone and can also be used to stream all those cosmic tunes as a bluetooth speaker. Retailing for $149.95, it will be warping its way to market in January 2016.

Vorta - The Alluring Clones Of The Dominion

Send in the clones!  On Deep Space Nine we met the enigmatic Founders - a gelatinous race which could morph into most anything imaginable.  The Founders employed a seductive subordinate race of solid beings called the Vorta. These aliens kept the aggressive Jem'Hadar, the grunt soldiers, on a short leash and served their morphing masters as the middle managers of The Dominion.  Although not physically strong nor impressive in terms of physiology, the Vorta are the ultimate negotiator.  In their dealings with the Federation and Starfleet, they could be more than effective in making diplomatic deals.  Is it their charm?  Maybe it's those deep, blue eyes which seduce from afar, or perhaps it's those soothing, lilting voices.  Whichever the case, the Vorta command a quiet kind of Star Trek sex vibe indeed.

With the Vorta, there are many mysteries on their culture and origin, and even the concept of their own death is questionable or variable.  There is no fixed death, nor real permanency of dying for these alien caretakers from the dread Dominion.  Once they die, a clone can be created and the Vorta in question can be back operating in the field in no time flat.  Talk about a great healthcare plan!  Live long and prosper, indeed!

Happy Independence Day!

Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy and fun Fourth of July!

-- Star Trek Sex Blog Staff