Sf Debris: Amok Time

[Nutso]

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Could a Vulcan watch a porno?

[Teaos]

Duck porn.

[McAvoy]

Vintage Bridget the Midget porn.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

An 8? I would've gone with 9 or even 10.

[McAvoy]

It is a classic but not a 9 though.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Really? I dunno, McAvoy. It could have been silly, but that they pulled it off so magnificently punts it up for me.

[McAvoy]

Really? I dunno, McAvoy. It could have been silly, but that they pulled it off so magnificently punts it up for me.

I think the concept of Vulcan males getting so clogged up every seven years that they need to release it is just a odd concept that brings it down for me. Now that being said it is still a great episode.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

I guess we'll agree to disagree, then.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

As far as I know it's never stated that Vulcans can only have sex during Pon Farr, just that they're drawn here to find a mate or die. It actually makes it hard to remain a celibate Vulcan in a way, since the path of the Vulcan loner leads to hideous death in a multiple of seven years! Also, I don't recall if it was stated that only Vulcan males go through this blood fever.

[Tyyr]

Could a Vulcan watch a porno?

Voyager says no.

Also, I don't recall if it was stated that only Vulcan males go through this blood fever.

Well, we did see Be'lana need to get laid when Vorik messed her up. Dunno how applicable that is though. And I don't think Pon Far is that nuts, after all the breeding impulse in a lot of animals is so strong that they'll engage in incredibly dangerous behaviors to do it right up to an including suicide. Given how nasty Vulcan is I can see their ancestors benefiting from having such a strong mating drive to force them together to procreate to keep the species going on such a dangerous world. Civilizing them would just make the impulse easier to satiate and remove any real drive to be rid of it.

[Teaos]

You'd think they would have made a drug to stop it, or make it non lethal.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Well, like the Vulcans say, it's very private. And like Bones says, the entire thing isn't very logical at all.

[Captain Seafort]

Could a Vulcan watch a porno?

Voyager says no.

Voyager says sometimes. Didn't work for Vorik, worked for Tuvok.

[Tyyr]

I thought the Doc made a holo variant of Tuvok's wife and it didn't work out? I could be remembering wrong or actively suppressing it.

[Captain Seafort]

I thought the Doc made a holo variant of Tuvok's wife and it didn't work out? I could be remembering wrong.

No, that worked, albeit interrupted by an alien-of-the-week attack. It was earlier, when he tried the same solution for Vorik that it failed. Either there were some refinements made, or the fact that Tuvok was a lot older and had been through Pon Farr many times while Vorik was going through his first made a difference.