Healthcare Of The Future

Healthcare is on everyone's minds these days - and we're looking to the future to see just how we'll be healing come Dr. Crusher's time.  

Check out my new article on Trek medical marvels.

http://www.treknews.net/2017/03/28/star-trek-healthcare/

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.

Bones Bragging

Really, Bones...  Really??

Dr. McCoy - Can You Tell Me About Those Horny Tribbles?

Dear Dr. McCoy - What's with all the fuzzy, purring lint balls clogging up the place lately?  What are these things, and why the hell do we keep getting more of them?  -- Signed, Clueless In Warp Drive Maintenance

Dear Clueless In Warp Drive Maintenance, Tribbles are born pregnant. Enuff said?  Well, there is more, but suffice to say that the more you feed them, the more they breed like Bolian Bunnies. Sounds kind of like those Gremlins too - don't you think?  I've always wondered about that myself....

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.

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.

Star Trek Sexy Spotlight - Tribbles

Who gets the most action in the Star Trek universe?  Captain Kirk flirting with those green skinned Orion beauties?  Vulcan Spock in his 7 year mating cycle?  7 years?!  That's Pon Too Farr!  And no, it's not that bearded wonder Commander Riker getting busy with Troi or fully functioning Data programmed in multiple techniques.  The most sexually productive creature of them all by far is the hairy little fuzzball known as the Tribble.

In the original series episode, The Trouble With Tribbles, Dr. McCoy established the fact that the little fuzzy beasts are literally born pregnant.  Most recently, the fur balls made an appearance in the feature film, Star Trek: Into Darkness.  Tribbles are hated by Klingons, so if you want to piss one off, simply put those purring fuzzballs to good use.  As Scotty would say, "It'll be no tribble at all!"

Mudd's Women - The Sexy Love Potion of Gene Roddenberry's Original Star Trek

One of the most compelling episodes of original Star Trek is Mudd's Women.  Introducing Harry Mudd - who'd later guest in another memorable ep, I, Mudd - the tale dealt in the raw sexuality of 3 women.  Harry was a con man, flim flam man or pimp - depending on your point of view - and he 'managed' three beautiful women in their social skills.

The tale posits the notion of these gals - escorts, companions, prostitutes, geisha, or all of them combined - mentored by the ever clever and profiteering Mudd.  Harry Mudd's women took an aphrodisiac substance called the Venus Drug - making them alluring to men.

A Sexy Star Trek Parody from MADtv

There have been a load of Star Trek parodies over the years.  Saturday Night Live skewered the original series, The Simpsons went after the movies, and Family Guy has pretty much poked fun at everything Trek.  But one parody on the comedy sketch show, MADtv, on Fox, was not only funny, but also pretty sexy.

Full of fun bits with Will Sasso as a porky Captain Kirk, the skit is a must for all Trek fans with a sense of humor.  It has to rank as one of the funniest and most sex filled Star Trek parodies ever.

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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.

How A Star Trek Became A Sex Trek

Star Trek or Sex Trek?  Anybody who pays attention to Gene Roddenberry's original TV show will see that the creator utilized the sexual aspects of humanity and the delightful struggle of our romantic enganglements to give his sci-fi vehicle more of a human punch.

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Star Trek Sexy Spotlight: Lt. Ilia - Persis Khambatta

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) marked the big screen debut of the TV show, and the return of original adventures of the Gene Roddenberry created universe.  Directed by veteran movie maker Robert Wise (The Day The Earth Stood Still), critics and audiences ultimately had mixed reactions to the project, however, it was an undeniable box office success.  Co-star Persis Khambatta played Lt. Ilia, a beautiful and bald alien called a Deltan.

Was she some kind of free love Hippy?  A flower powered alien?  Was she an extraterrestrial Hare Krishna?

Lt. Ilia hailed from a planet where sexual expression was as natural as breathing or eating.  To express oneself openly in a sexual way was second nature to her people.  Her bald look may be more acceptable today, but back in 1979, the look pretty much stunned moviegoers.  For the first spin-off series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Roddenberry reshaped the character and created Counselor Deanna Troi - the thick haired beauty who boasted similar empathic powers and had a romantic connection to Commander William Riker.  V'ger 'merged' Lt. Ilia and William Decker (Stephen Collins) through a kind of digital absorption and matrix.  Who knows just where they ended up.

Medical Tricorder Comes One Step Closer To Reality

Dr. McCoy would love this for his iPhone.

A UK company has developed an iPhone case, called Wello, that essentially turns your Apple Smartphone into a portable medical diagnostic device like the tricorder which Bones, Dr. Crusher, Dr. Bashir and the Holographic Doc from Voyager would use to swiftly diagnose the illiness of their patient.

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