Why was there never a "Vulcan Love Slave" novel?

[Mach5]

I bet that one wouldn't have had trouble selling out

 

[seigezunt]

Try Killing Time.

 

[Who_Trek]

I read it on the last haul out to Altair. Unreadable tripe. The holo is much better than the book, although that's not saying much. Best with a friend. Or two.

Now if you really want a good read, I recommend "Burning Hearts of Kronos (sp?)". Five stars!

 

[Greg Cox]

I bet that one wouldn't have had trouble selling out

Paging Susan Wright . . . .

 

[Sci]

I would presume that no one ever wrote a Vulcan Love Slave novel because Pocket Books isn't in the habit of publishing Star Trek porn.

 

[Dayton Ward]

^ Well, we're in talks.

 

[DimesDan]

I would presume that no one ever wrote a Vulcan Love Slave novel because Pocket Books isn't in the habit of publishing Star Trek porn.

Don't be such a spoil sport.

 

[Kirks_Flying_Wig]

I would presume that no one ever wrote a Vulcan Love Slave novel because Pocket Books isn't in the habit of publishing Star Trek porn.

They don't seem to have a problem with earth-based... erotica.

Any such Vulcan Love Slave novel would have to be published as a pop-up book.

 

[Marie1]

Because the Abrams Trek wiped out all Vulcans, so everything Vulcan in all universes disappeared, including that book, forever.

 

[TerriO]

It's probably a shorter list of how many people didn't pitch that at one point.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

^ Well, we're in talks.

 

[donners22]

I would presume that no one ever wrote a Vulcan Love Slave novel because Pocket Books isn't in the habit of publishing Star Trek porn.

Actually, a story got close, and that nearly drove me away from Trek Lit altogether. Indeed, it has probably influenced a lot of my negative views of many recent Trek books.

It was probably tongue-in-cheek, but I was embarassed to be reading it, and stunned than anyone would think it would have been appropriate to publish under the Trek name.

 

[Sci]

I would presume that no one ever wrote a Vulcan Love Slave novel because Pocket Books isn't in the habit of publishing Star Trek porn.

Actually, a story got close, and that nearly drove me away from Trek Lit altogether. Indeed, it has probably influenced a lot of my negative views of many recent Trek books.

It was probably tongue-in-cheek, but I was embarassed to be reading it, and stunned than anyone would think it would have been appropriate to publish under the Trek name.

What on Earth are you talking about?

 

[Steve Roby]

Yeah, I'm wondering that too. I've read Sade, Krafft-Ebing, Sacher-Masoch, Anais Nin's Delta of Venus, I've read gay and lesbian stuff by John Preston and Pat Califia though I'm straight because I don't want Canada Customs telling me what I should be allowed to read, I've even read The Stranger by Portia da Costa, the erotica novel with a main character based on Paul McGann's Doctor Who. So I know smut when I see it.

I've never read any official Star Trek tie-in fiction that could be considered erotic, much less pornographic.

 

[donners22]

Less of the erotic, more of the love slave...

 

[Sci]

Less of the erotic, more of the love slave...

Again, what on Earth are you talking about?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I wonder if he means either T'Prynn/Sandesjo from the Vanguard novels, Picard/Ariel from The Buried Age, or Robin/Whathisface from Renaissance, none of which I'd consider especially explicit in the grand scheme of things, but all of which were a bit more... definitive than a wink-wink, nudge-nudge.

I don't know what it says that I can think of specific sex scenes in Star Trek novels. But none of these compare to the prologue to Doctor Who's The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, which opens with a six or seven page tantric sex act that opens a hole in the fabric of reality. Seriously.

 

[Myasishchev]

I wonder if he means either T'Prynn/Sandesjo from the Vanguard novels, Picard/Ariel from The Buried Age, or Robin/Whathisface from Renaissance, none of which I'd consider especially explicit in the grand scheme of things, but all of which were a bit more... definitive than a wink-wink, nudge-nudge.

I don't know what it says that I can think of specific sex scenes in Star Trek novels. But none of these compare to the prologue to Doctor Who's The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, which opens with a six or seven page tantric sex act that opens a hole in the fabric of reality. Seriously.

Did Grant Morrison write a Dr. Who novel, then?

I don't think I've ever read a particularly lurid scene in a Trek novel--but then again Michel Houellebecq is my favorite author, so my bar for lurid is probably significantly above that of most.

 

[JD]

Well there was Feafull Symmetry. Which I think most of admit was pretty shocking for a Trek books. I know it was for me, but that was before I read things like Dead Until Dark, A Game of Thrones, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Less of the erotic, more of the love slave...

Again, what on Earth are you talking about?

You know, on DS9 they always mentioned (but never showed) the wildly popular holosuite program Vulcan Love Slave...

Who knows, remember the ENT Ferengi episode? They probably wrote the program with T'Pol in mind.