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Termyn8or -> RE: Star Trek and BDSM "Triskelion" Style (8/6/2007 11:18:24 AM)
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Did the symbol precede that episode or is it the other way around ? It does seem quite a coincidence. Perhaps there are some older kinksters in here who could shed some light on that.
I like that episode. I think my favorite was The Doomsday Machine though. Kirk: "Can you rig this ship to blow up ?". What Scotty was thinking : "You fuckin gotta be kidding me, I been working all day just to keep the muthafuker from blowing up !".
If that symbol was indeed used for PE or BDSM before 1966 it is totally possible that they took one episode and decided to appeal to the kinksters. But IIRC they had three suns, thus the name and the symobol. But then that could've just been a smokescreen for the vanilla people.
Not to hijack too much, but Trekkies in here, did you ever notice how there are a bunch of episodes that are just missing ? You've seen the collections, they do not account for all of them. Somewhere there are episodes so long lost that I can't even think of them, and I used to watch that series with a gun. (figuratively) There were no VCRs back then, so get it while the getting is good. If my little sister made too much noise I put her in a plastic bag in 2 seconds flat. Even if Dad talked too much I turned up the volume.
I was a serious Trekkie, in fact I was told I was named in part after Jeffrey Hunter, who played the original Captain Pike in the first few episodes. (but not for that role, I was born in 1960)
OK, to unhijack, think about it, they wore those harnesses. To my knowledge they were never attached to anything. They seemed like a symbol, a symbol of captivity. I'm sure the Triskelians were dominant in nature. I also find it hard to believe that homo sapiens were the first species to come along who told them to go fuck off. Of course it is fiction, and we don't know how many thralls they had to kill off before that episode.
As years go by, as we remember this old series that barely made it to the 70s, in this future, we find many things which makes one go Hmmmmmm. Take a look at a RAZR phone. In fact, remove the screen from a RAZR and put a pin on it so it will attach to the user's shirt and we got the communicators in TNG covered as well. Now if we just get warp drive and transporters we will not have to worry about the cost of gasoline.
There is really too much to say, so I will stop now.
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