# Science fiction fans: how "alien" is too alien to sleep with? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737 "2008-08-20T23:15:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![goodie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@goodie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goodie)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737/141 "2008-09-06T22:08:39Z")
Originally Posted by NDP …To which the guy immediately says, “Well, can you keep an eye on the fire while I try to go fuck that monkey?” Oh, that old chestnut. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737/142 "2008-09-06T22:19:41Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > I’d be less concerned about form than I would want to know about mating habits/rituals. I do not want to be stuck in the position of playing the male for a preying mantis courtship. Yes, a misinterpretation of “eat me” could have tragic consequences. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737/143 "2008-09-06T23:00:20Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > I always thought the grey chick from Farscape was pretty hot. Aeryn Sun doesn’t count as alien enough, since, while she’s hot, she looks exactly like a human female. Damn, rules out 99% of the Legion. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![CutterJohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@CutterJohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CutterJohn)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737/144 "2008-09-07T07:46:31Z")
Going off on a tangent, I’d also be down with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA), provided she had an actual personality. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737/145 "2008-09-07T09:22:00Z")
> [@CutterJohn](#): > > semi NSFW: [http://www.cgartworld.com/cggirls/Mermaid.jpg.html](http://www.cgartworld.com/cggirls/Mermaid.jpg.html) > > Thats about the limit for me. Dude, she’s 12. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737/146 "2008-09-07T12:52:32Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Dude, she’s 12. :eek: Cetacean years, or human years? I mean, that kind of thing can be important in situations like this. Sleeping with a 2 year old android might be less skeevy (I think that’s the technical term) than even checking out a 15 year old human. :eek: Hell, just imagine what it must be like for some _aliens_ in the same situation…“Officer, I _swear,_ I thought she was 128! C’mon, does she LOOK like a 48 year old kid to you!?” ---
**Author:** ![CutterJohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@CutterJohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CutterJohn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737/147 "2008-09-08T01:56:07Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Cetacean years, or human years? > > I mean, that kind of thing can be important in situations like this. Sleeping with a 2 year old android might be less skeevy (I think that’s the technical term) than even checking out a 15 year old human. :eek: > > Hell, just imagine what it must be like for some _aliens_ in the same situation…“Officer, I _swear,_ I thought she was 128! C’mon, does she LOOK like a 48 year old kid to you!?” They sorta covered that in the recent game Mass Effect, where the alien you could get it on with was something like 100 and still considered young. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737/148 "2008-09-08T03:39:05Z")
> [@CutterJohn](#): > > They sorta covered that in the recent game Mass Effect, where the alien you could get it on with was something like 100 and still considered young. Not really. Her theories about the extinction of the Protheans didn’t get much respect because she’s “only” 106, but the asari _encourage_ inter-species relationships, and are well aware that most species don’t live a millennium. Speaking of Liara, I think she’s adorable. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737/149 "2008-09-08T15:30:44Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Damn, rules out 99% of the Legion. ☹ I’ve always thought most of the “alien” Legionnaires came from worlds that had been colonized by Earth. Certainly Naltor was; the high seer referred to Earth as “the mother world” on at least one occasion. Of the classic Legionnaire homeworlds, I think only Colu, Daxam, Talok VIII, Durla, and Phantom Girl’s home world (I’m not going to try to spell it!) and wherever the hell Tellus came from were not Terran colonies. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737/150 "2008-09-08T19:37:32Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I’m rather surprised that no one’s rejected Klingons out of hand. That’s some trans-species lovemaking that could be a might [dangerous](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsfj2dk6KNg) . That was hot! My ex was a Klingon. We divorced due to irreconcilable differences…I am human. He is not. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737/151 "2008-09-08T19:59:21Z")
> [@Tupug\_Anachi](#): > > That was hot! > > My ex was a Klingon. We divorced due to irreconcilable differences…I am human. He is not. 😉 I always figured that’s why Troi & Worf broke up. She was fine with him when he was quoting love poetry and wrestling targs for her, but one cracked rib and she was out of there. I would love to have been a fly on the wall when Troi was discussing the breakup with Crusher afterwards; after all, Beverly was not only her best girlfriend but also the person who’d have had to patch her up. I imagine it went like this: BC: I hate to say I told you so.. DT: Shut up. BC: …actually that’s a lie. I love saying I told you so. DT: Please shut up. BD: Anyway, I told you so. DT: SHUT THE FUCK UP! BC: You know, if you yell while I’m fixing your ribs, it’ll just hurt more. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737/152 "2008-09-09T16:24:29Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > [Quite a few, actually](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_Transformers)… Mostly introduced as girlfriends of the male autobots. I squicked my kids out by telling them that it really didn’t matter what shape the metal had been hammered into, those robots weren’t female. The only autobot close to a female was Optimus Prime. He had the matrix that could make new autobots. ---
**Author:** ![Chrys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Chrys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chrys)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737/153 "2008-09-16T16:28:40Z")
Thats a pretty good squick, but really isn’t that asexual reproduction? Since prime is surrounded by infertile robots (drones) of his species wouldn’t he actually be some type of fertile queen? [quote=“Yllaria, post:152, topic:460737”] I squicked my kids out by telling them that it really didn’t matter what shape the metal had been hammered into, those robots weren’t female. The only autobot close to a female was Optimus Prime. He had the matrix that could make new autobots.[/QUOTe ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737/154 "2008-09-16T17:12:19Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > I’m inclined to agree with you- this all sounds like it would be more enjoyable for the partner with the naturally cooler body temperature. However, there are a couple things to consider… In the novelization to _Star Trek III: The Search for Spock_, the half-Vulcan, half-Romulan Saavik and David Marcus have a brief affair. He enjoys lying in bed next to her, as she is considerably warmer than he is, while she compares his cooler body temperature to enjoyable shade on a hot summer day. Win-win! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-fiction-fans-how-alien-is-too-alien-to-sleep-with/460737.md?page=7)