Star Trek Sex: The Book - Analyzing The Most Sexually Charged Episodes Of The Original Series
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Monday, October 26, 2015
A Starship Crew's Romantic Adventures
Star Trek Sex: Analyzing the Most Sexually Charged Episodes Of The Original Series - now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bearmanor Media.
Monday, October 5, 2015
Thursday, July 16, 2015
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.
Monday, December 22, 2014
Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays to all creatures great and small - and to all those living in the future especially!
Star Trek Sex celebrates the holidays. All the best to you and yours!
Friday, April 11, 2014
Star Trek Sexy Spotlight: Losira - Lee Meriwether
I am for you, Jim Kirk. And so she was for many a man. In the classic Star Trek episode, That Which Survives, actress Lee Meriwether (Barnaby Jones) played a mysterious alien woman called Losira, When she appeared - literally materializing out of thin air - she would announce, "I am for you..." - naming her intended victim. Victim they were, for after she touched them, they died.
Beautiful actress Meriwether also played the comic book and catnip addicted Catwoman (replacing Julie Newmar) in the theatrical movie based on the campy 1960's Batman TV show - starring Adam West and Burt Ward. For television crime fans in the 1970's, she was part of the crime busting gang of the iconic TV series Barnaby Jones - starring veteran thespian Buddy Ebsen.
Spotlight On The Directors: Robert Wise - Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Robert Wise, the veteran director of so many feature film classics, like West Side Story, The Haunting and The Day The Earth Stood Still had his Hollywood work cut out for him. How to film a TV show that's a cult classic and do it justice on the silver screen for loyal fans while bringing in new ones?
Although critics moaned over the long running time and overload of visual FX (in today's bloated FX laden cinema, ST:TMP is standard to quaint fare), fans plunked down enough box office loot to make it a hit and justify the many installments to follow. In 2009, director JJ Abrams faced a similar challenge, and his reboot or re-imagination starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana and Karl Urban soared to praise and profit.
The Human Adventure Is Just Beginning.
While being easy to dismiss as too visually oriented, too long or lacking emotional subtext, Wise helmed a movie dealing in both the physical and sexual needs of humanity and our more substantive emotional underpinnings. Lt. Ilia and her old flame Decker (Stephen Collins) exemplify just how complex a future could be where issues of interfaith or interracial couplings have been settled, but now a new variable challenges our notion of being human - one of interspecies joining. Ilia (Persis Khambatta) is a Deltan and her people employ sex as we would in celebration or greeting. Their sexuality is as much a part of their identity as their name or career. This romantic couple joined alongside by the struggle of Spock and Kirk to rectify and rekindle their own long, passionate friendship and professional relationship are more than enough of a humanity equation to savor and balance - if viewers only pay attention.
Ultimately, Wise made a film that he could be proud of, even though he didn't have enough time to finish the complex optical FX. Back then, the only computers capable enough to conjure up such visuals in the budget and production time scheduled were the fictional cyber circuits of the Starship Enterprise. In November 2001, Wise finally got the chance to see his finished film premiere in the Paramount Theatre of The Arts - complete with new digital FX which perfectly complimented the traditional film opticals of the 1970's era. It was subsequently released on a special edition DVD.
Although critics moaned over the long running time and overload of visual FX (in today's bloated FX laden cinema, ST:TMP is standard to quaint fare), fans plunked down enough box office loot to make it a hit and justify the many installments to follow. In 2009, director JJ Abrams faced a similar challenge, and his reboot or re-imagination starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana and Karl Urban soared to praise and profit.
The Human Adventure Is Just Beginning.
While being easy to dismiss as too visually oriented, too long or lacking emotional subtext, Wise helmed a movie dealing in both the physical and sexual needs of humanity and our more substantive emotional underpinnings. Lt. Ilia and her old flame Decker (Stephen Collins) exemplify just how complex a future could be where issues of interfaith or interracial couplings have been settled, but now a new variable challenges our notion of being human - one of interspecies joining. Ilia (Persis Khambatta) is a Deltan and her people employ sex as we would in celebration or greeting. Their sexuality is as much a part of their identity as their name or career. This romantic couple joined alongside by the struggle of Spock and Kirk to rectify and rekindle their own long, passionate friendship and professional relationship are more than enough of a humanity equation to savor and balance - if viewers only pay attention.
Ultimately, Wise made a film that he could be proud of, even though he didn't have enough time to finish the complex optical FX. Back then, the only computers capable enough to conjure up such visuals in the budget and production time scheduled were the fictional cyber circuits of the Starship Enterprise. In November 2001, Wise finally got the chance to see his finished film premiere in the Paramount Theatre of The Arts - complete with new digital FX which perfectly complimented the traditional film opticals of the 1970's era. It was subsequently released on a special edition DVD.
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