Can someone confirm that Star Trek inter-planetary liaisons produce fertile offspring, or is Spock, for example, the equivalent of a mule and destined never to produce little Spocklettes.
This more ancient race wouldn’t be tall albino engineery types? Or am I in danger of producing my own infertile franchise-mule?
Oh, now I remember what I was going to add: Hobbit sex, for way TMI.
Robot Chicken addressed this:
Again, this problem would probably be easy to fix with test-tube technology.
No doubt all of the surviving data from the Eugenics Wars would come in handy here! 
It was brought up in issue #53 of Swamp Thing, back when Alan Moore was writing it, when Swamp Thing’s lover Abby was arrested for unnatural acts by the police in Gotham City. Speaking ironically, Batman noted that by the strict letter of the law, they also ought to arrest all of the non-humans who might possibly be having inter-species relationships, including Starfire, Martian Manhunter, Captain Atom, and “What’s-His-Name. You know, the one who lives in Metropolis.”
You know what this reminds me of? Someone on this board was furious about the song “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me,” which they claimed was about homosexual seduction. Despite this being preposterous, I always think about that whenever I hear the song.
Now, whenever I see Superman/Lois Lane or Doctor Who/companion, I’ll wonder if the pairing constitutes bestiality. Darn you people, darn you to heck!
At least some interplanetary interbreedings produce fertile offspring. In TNG, for example, Alexander Rozhenko was the naturally-conceived, one-quarter-human son of half-human, half-Klingon K’Ehleyr. In Voyager, Miral Paris was of similar heritage, born to human-Klingon B’Elanna Torres. Again in TNG (“The Drumhead”), Simon Tarses was one-quarter Romulan, through his (unseen) father. In an alternate timeline (“Parallels”), half-human, half-Betazoid Deanna Troi is shown to be fertile with Klingon Worf.
In humans it is; how much do we actually know about Kryptonian anatomy beyond that facts that they look exactly like humans on the outside and have all manner of superpowers under a yellow sun.
And Salome Jens playing both the Ancient Humanoid in that episode and the Female Changeling has unintentionally spawned some interesting fan theories.
Well Quark’s holosuites had programs like “Vulcan Love Slave” and some of the promotional material for the show openly referred to holographic brothels (that function only being implied onscreen). On Voyager the Doctor developed sexual attractions to several female characters and ended up married in the last episode. One wonders if that was just a side effect of him acquiring sapience, or did he deliberately program himself to have a heterosexual sexual orientation.
Star Trek in general has a bad habit of treating different alien races like different nationalities or ethnic groups as opposed to different species. Actually a lot of sci fi does that.
My question is: Is having sex with a hologram masturbation?
Further: Since sex with a prostitute is essentially masturbation in a vagina, is having sex with a holographic “love slave” masturbation twice over?
(This is not, however, meant to imply that neither is pleasurable. It’s just that they’re both … masturbation.)
If I’ve learned anything from Star Trek it’s that all female aliens have big boobies.
How is sex with a hooker “essentially masturbation”?
I think **terentii **may be going to the wrong hookers.
There is no contact other than physical. Nothing emotional, nothing intellectual, absolutely no committment. The only difference I see between getting off on porn and engaging a hooker is that porn is cheaper and safer.
Are you speaking from experience, here?
I’ve known hookers, if that’s what you mean. To them, you’re strictly a financial transaction.
You need this explained to you?!? :dubious:
In “The Drumhead”, there was a 1/4 Romulan officer, (posing as a 1/4 Vulcan). Nobody seemed to think this was unusual.
By that definition hook-ups, one night stands, and many other varieties of sex are also masturbation, including at times sex between married couples. A little too broad to be useful or meaningful.
If you find such arrangements enjoyable, you’re perfectly free to indulge in them. As I said above, being momentarily pleasurable doesn’t mean its not masturbation.
Relax, grude. We’re not judging you. No reason to get defensive. We’re all cool with your Ferengi girlfriends.