As regards the James Bond phenomenon, there have been specific male Trek characters to that end - how could we forget the "irresistible" Okona? That Ronin creature from "Sub Rosa" also had a good thing going.
What is stated in "Bound" is also somewhat different from what appears to be stated. Phlox is pretty straightforward about it: the pheromones make the males "aggressive" and "delusional". Offscreen, he supposedly adds "vulnerable to suggestion". Nothing about being attracted to the women there. Essentially, the Orions spread booze around and wait for the inevitable to happen.
This thus leaves the reaction of the victims completely open to interpretation there, revealing nothing about their sexual preferences. Some heterosexual males may get a headache out of the booze, some may become passive, some may start fighting about that nice seat there over the porthole. A select few will start fighting over women, or men. Onscreen, we witness only a few of the fights, and the ones we do witness are not said to be over the women.
The one sex-specific or more exactly gender-specific thing here is that the Orion stuff may be deficient in making females "vulnerable to suggestion". But we can't tell for sure, because once the booze has been provided, the Orions start using their sexual lures as an (unrelated) means of furthering their suggestions, and that has the best odds of working on heterosexual men, so they only try it out on those.
Timo Saloniemi
What is stated in "Bound" is also somewhat different from what appears to be stated. Phlox is pretty straightforward about it: the pheromones make the males "aggressive" and "delusional". Offscreen, he supposedly adds "vulnerable to suggestion". Nothing about being attracted to the women there. Essentially, the Orions spread booze around and wait for the inevitable to happen.
This thus leaves the reaction of the victims completely open to interpretation there, revealing nothing about their sexual preferences. Some heterosexual males may get a headache out of the booze, some may become passive, some may start fighting about that nice seat there over the porthole. A select few will start fighting over women, or men. Onscreen, we witness only a few of the fights, and the ones we do witness are not said to be over the women.
The one sex-specific or more exactly gender-specific thing here is that the Orion stuff may be deficient in making females "vulnerable to suggestion". But we can't tell for sure, because once the booze has been provided, the Orions start using their sexual lures as an (unrelated) means of furthering their suggestions, and that has the best odds of working on heterosexual men, so they only try it out on those.
Timo Saloniemi
