{"id":6612,"date":"2009-11-22T03:25:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T11:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=6612"},"modified":"2011-09-03T18:06:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T01:06:53","slug":"star-trek-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/6612","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A boldly different Star Trek experience\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0553246747?tag=stevemehallo-20&#038;camp=213381&#038;creative=390973&#038;linkCode=as4&#038;creativeASIN=0553246747&#038;adid=00EVQQZ7S9XDEXXM8B7J&#038;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/SpockMessiah.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read somewhere that this novel sent Gene Roddenberry into a tizzy. Don\u2019t know if it were true, but this book has some nasty religion stuff, nymphomaniac Ensign Sara George, lots of sex and the crew in a nakkid crucifiction in the rain something or other. I remember reading this as a kid and thinking about the rather frank, adult content, <em>This is NOT going to be made into a movie is it? <\/em>Also thought: <em>This Star Trek thing is pretty damn interesting<\/em> (teenage hormones speaking, of course).<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Ensign George was pure, unadulterated, wanton sex.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>This was one of the first original Trek novels, released in 1976. I loved the stark whiteness of the original glossy Helvetica-set cover (now faded); paired with wonderful artwork by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedonia.net\/art\/szafran.htm\"  target=\"_blank\">Gene Szafran.<\/a> Unfortunately, future printings ended up with more literal interpretations up front. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/ontd_startrek\/635826.html\"  target=\"_blank\">a blow by blow review.<\/a> Snag a copy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0553246747?tag=stevemehallo-20&#038;camp=213381&#038;creative=390973&#038;linkCode=as4&#038;creativeASIN=0553246747&#038;adid=00EVQQZ7S9XDEXXM8B7J&#038;\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (is this thing even still in print?)<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"\u2018A boldly different Star Trek experience\u2019\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/6612\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read somewhere that this novel sent Gene Roddenberry into a tizzy. Don\u2019t know if it were true, but this book has some nasty religion stuff, nymphomaniac Ensign Sara George, lots of sex and the crew in a nakkid crucifiction in the rain something or other. I remember reading this as a kid and thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,44,109,53],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-6612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-finds","category-star-trek","category-thoughts","tag-swiss-international-style"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6612"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29222,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions\/29222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}