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February 13, 2007
The human race is so doomed
I was watching ST: Voyager today and the funniest thing happened. See, they have made a couple vague references to salacious activity on the holodeck but have always maintained a tasteful distance from the subject, despite the fact that you know whoever invented the thing had exactly that idea in mind. (Don't even act like you don't think that, because we all know that nerds and tech geeks tend to be horny little bastards.) Anyway, some Vulcan dude was having the 7 year itch and the doctor suggested (in much more tactful language) that he have freaky Vulcan nookie with a hologram. I nearly pissed myself laughing - especially when he said later that he would modify the program for the half Klingon chick that got infected with Mr. Vulcan's horninas.
Anyway, this got me to thinking about this strange obsession sci-fi writers have with alien sex being such a dangerous occupation. The Vulcan dude went after B'elanna (I don't feel like looking up how to spell her damn name - if you don't know who I mean just remember she's the half Klingon chica) because he respected her and all that, and while he was putting the smooth moves on her he commented that his Vulcan strength would allow him to survive the rigors of Klingon hanky panky. And if you've ever watched the old show you know that Spock gave Kirk a good ass whuppin' when his blood fever kicked in, so apparently Vulcan's have some hardcore hornies too.
It's not just Trek sex though. Remember that Alien Nation show? They actually had classes for Newcomer/Human relations so that us poor fragile monkeys wouldn't get pulverized by alien lovin'. And I recall there being something like that on Babylon 5 too, regarding the Minbari and their danger sexwise to human partners. Don't even get me started on the whole anal probe thing so popular with UFO enthusiasts, although outside of crude humor that isn't necessarily a sexual situation.
I think that is just so weird. It's strange enough that they're considering that xeno-nookie is such a likely event (though I suppose I wouldn't put it completely out of the realm of possibility), and even stranger that Star Trek just loves mixing up the genetics willy-nilly. Why do they always have to make potential cross species humping a danger, and always to the humans? Are we really that frail? Or is it the idea that humans are willing to risk maiming and death for the ultimate forbidden thrill of freaky alien sex?
Posted by damyano at February 13, 2007 11:42 PM