(Nerd Alert!) Rare Star Trek Photos Show Green Orion Slavegirls Like You’ve Never Seen Them

IO9 ^ | Mar 2, 2012 | Charlie Jane Anders

[Dallas59]

Don't like the new Slave girls...way too domesticated.

[P.O.E.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0yXqU-w9U0

“He’s dead” compilation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eGzXEP9Z5s&feature=related

“I’m a doctor not a....” compilation

[fieldmarshaldj]

UGH. Faux Trek.

[xone]

ph

[tophat9000]

Yea but I thought mama Crusher was hot

The problem with NG was now the character were written,

All the Federation was a bunch of whitebread bloodless socialist weenies....

Funny how the lib writer of NG saw the future ...

so many of NG space races were a repacking of old simple minded cardboard cutout racist stereotypes,

The Ferengis: Space Jews/Capitalist as writer by a NAZI/Commie propagandist,

The Kingons: A lib writer idea of "people of color",

The Kingons were allowed to have blood in there veins and passion but "violent and scarry"

(At least to a Lib, I thought the Kingons were the only ones worth a shit in NG )...

Notice how they would mostly cast black actor as Kingons

But whats his face, the actor that played Crusher The wonder-puss-boy is really ok on Big Bang theory and other stuff ive seen him

[tophat9000]

What to you mean the condoms aren't free?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Worthy of mention is Star Trek The Animated Series (1973–1974). While the animation was marginal, they used serious plot lines that can be argued are good enough to be considered canon.

[MarkL]

Don't like the new Slave girls...way too domesticated.

According to "Star Trek, Enterprise," the "slave girls" emitted pheromones that "enslaved" the males, and the males actually became the slaves.

Mark

[GreenLanternCorps]

“Yesteryear”, ‘nuff said.

[NCC-1701]

I am old school Star Trek fan, hence my FReeper handle. Live long and prosper.

[Tijeras_Slim]

This is a GREAT thread!

TOS is my favorite, but I also (heresy) enjoyed the last few seasons of DS9. I think that having to compete with B5 made them up their game.

TOS had the best musical score by far, something not usually commented on.

[yarddog]

I was in my 20s and married when the original series came on. It was one of my favorite shows. Maybe a year ago, I used a Netflix gift subscription to order dvds of those old shows.

There were some very good episodes, in fact some of them were near great. There were also a few boring ones.

On some of the dvd’s they had comments from the various people involved with the show. I recall one with the prop manager. They had an extremely low budget. He said their favorite place to get props was the Paramount trash bins.

[djf]

Susan Oliver.
A truly beautiful woman.

[goat granny]

Some of technology was way ahead of its time...doors that open automatically was a WOW the tricorder is now the cell phone, smart phone, no one could have thought at that time a communications phone that size, just flip it open, the show where they put what appears to be CD’s that open the gate to another time and place....back in the 60’s dial phones were what was used and in fact I have one down my basement and my granddaughter looked at it and said “How to use this as a phone” laughing my daughter and I taught her to use a dial phone, she was in her teens at the time.... Makes me wonder what teckies will bring us in another 50 years, if we survive....

[rockrr]

“It’s not easy being green”

[rockrr]

Mt older brother used to refer to Counselor Deanna Troi as “The Space Slut” LOL. Funny how what’s old is new again ;-)

[Johnny B.]

Ive never seen an “onion girl”

If you watched Lost In Space, you would have seen a "carrot man"

Carrot Man

That's Stanley Adams in the carrot costume. He also played "Cyrano Jones" in the Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles".

[BillyBoy]

Interesting, I never noticed that Vina's Orion Slave Girl ("green girls" for any non-Trekkies reading) had such long, pointed nails until these new photos. I don't think they kept that trait with later slave girls (Yvonne Craig seemed to have it a bit in "Whom Gods Destroy" but not to the extent Susan Oliver did when she played Vina) Kinda wish they kept that.

Galia in Star Trek '09 was pretty "tame" compared to past slave girls but she was a cadet at Starfleet Academy so that was unusual for an Orion to begin with. The ones in Star Trek Enterprise actually appeared to be more sultry than the ones in TOS:

But the ones that seemed the most "off" to me where the male Orions in Star Trek: The Animated Series. WTH? They didn't even give them green skin. They have the skin tone of Andorians:

[fieldmarshaldj]

IIRC, Orions were supposed to be of at least 3 different subracial groups (green was one, silver was another and I can’t remember the third, red ?). There was a lot of info on that in the books going back to the ‘70s. My big problem with there being an Green Orion Slave girl in “Faux” Trek as a cadet is that Orions were not even members of the Federation (and indeed, Orions were hostile), and she simply shouldn’t have been there. It’d be like a North Korean attending West Point. Of course, that’s what you get when you allow a hardcore Star Wars fan to do a Trek film (and blowing up Vulcan like it was Alderaan).

[DogByte6RER]

One more post of another Orion slave girl ... Miss Yvonne Craig as Marta, an Orion slave girl whom was a patient in an underground asylum for the criminally insane in the episode Whom Gods Destroy