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Which character do/did you have a crush on?

When I was a kid, Troi was definitely my main crush. I've also had crushes on Seven, Kira, and Michael Burnham. I'm sure there are others, but I just listed the first few that came to mind.
 
Chakotay is pretty yummy, and man I his vouce sexy; but the older I get, the more boring I realize he is.

Jack from DS9 is pretty attractive in his less psychotic moments.

Lon Suder also gets my attention.
 
From TOS, it was Kirk at first. But then some day I started liking McCoy much more.
I know that Spock was supposed to be the big sex symbol in the 60's, and Isaac Asimov even wrote an article about the phenomenon, but I just fail to see the appeal. :shrug:
I don't think I could cope with a partner who only wanted to get it on every seven years, no matter how good looking they were.
 
Though I've been a Trekkie since I was a small child, I've honestly not crushed on too many characters. I was 8 when TNG came out - still absolutely in pre-pubescent mode - and the idea of having a crush on someone around the age of my parents would've been weird as hell.

Only one who really ever "did it for me" was Ezri Dax. Always more into the "pixie" type than bombshells or whatever. The character being less sure of herself also seemed a bit less intimidating to me at that age.

Really struggling to think of anyone else (even recurring characters) that I thought were attractive - even in modern Trek.
 
I don't think I could cope with a partner who only wanted to get it on every seven years, no matter how good looking they were.
Ah, but there's this memo from Gene Coon (included in "These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two"), where he explains that, after "Amok Time", Spock's human half won, and now he can "screw like anyone else".

They really didn't want people to be discouraged about Spock, I guess. :p
 
From TOS, it was Kirk at first. But then some day I started liking McCoy much more.
I know that Spock was supposed to be the big sex symbol in the 60's, and Isaac Asimov even wrote an article about the phenomenon, but I just fail to see the appeal. :shrug:
Nimoy commented in "I Am Spock" in getting fan mail to that effect and finding it strange.

Personally, I don't find Spock attractive but the Romulan Commander from The Enterprise Incident helps illustrate that pointed ears can have an appeal, illogical though it might be :vulcan: 😉
 
Personally, I don't find Spock attractive but the Romulan Commander from The Enterprise Incident helps illustrate that pointed ears can have an appeal, illogical though it might be :vulcan: 😉
Come to think of it, the Horta agreed, so you may be onto something...
Might also explain McCoy's fixation with the pointed ears. And Spock being so impatient about Kirk removing his Romulan ears (he didn't want the competition).
 
I can definitely understand Spock's appeal. It's that Vulcan stoicism. Very fascinating (pun fully intended). I mean it's a big reason why I adore Jean-Luc, too. It's like Spock himself says - he has "an almost Vulcan quality".
 
Nimoy commented in "I Am Spock" in getting fan mail to that effect and finding it strange.

Personally, I don't find Spock attractive but the Romulan Commander from The Enterprise Incident helps illustrate that pointed ears can have an appeal, illogical though it might be :vulcan: 😉

The Romulan commander in The Enterprise Incident was just too incompetent. She had the Enterprise outnumbered and surrounded, and she not only let the Enterprise get away, she let them steal the cloaking device and get away with it! Should have kept all her ships' shields on to prevent unauthorized beaming. and had a doubled guard around the cloaking device. And maintained a healthy skepticism of Spock's intentions.

incompetence is not sexy, even when it's the enemy.
 
I don't think I could cope with a partner who only wanted to get it on every seven years, no matter how good looking they were.
Fear not! :)

One way to interpret pon farr is that Vulcans only have sex once every seven years. However, TOS writer and continuity story editor D.C. Fontana once explained that pon farr is not the only time Vulcans feel romantic attraction, sexual desire, or engage in sexual activity:

"Vulcans mate normally any time they want to. However, every seven years you do the ritual, the ceremony, the whole thing. The biological urge. You must, but any other time is any other emotionhumanoid emotion – when you're in love. When you want to, you know when the urge is there, you do it. This every-seven-years business was taken too literally by too many people who don't stop and understand. We didn't mean it only every seven years. I mean, every seven years would be a little bad, and it would not explain the Vulcans of many different ages which are not seven years apart." – D.C. Fontana (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
 
The Romulan commander in The Enterprise Incident was just too incompetent. She had the Enterprise outnumbered and surrounded, and she not only let the Enterprise get away, she let them steal the cloaking device and get away with it! Should have kept all her ships' shields on to prevent unauthorized beaming. and had a doubled guard around the cloaking device. And maintained a healthy skepticism of Spock's intentions.

incompetence is not sexy, even when it's the enemy.
I mean, it's her whole Romulan vibe that makes her attractive, not just her position. It's clear there is a game of duplicity going on but both unwilling to yield and het curiosity gets the better of her.

A recent rewatch of an episode of JAG was very reminiscent of this phenomenon.
 
I don't think I ever really had a crush on a Star Trek character.

I thought Jadzia was physically attractive, even tough I did not like her as a character.

Never cared for 7 - too blatantly and aggressively sexualized even for 23-year old me back then, and the 'person with alien perspective learns what it means to be human' trope had become old and tired to me by that time. In fact I think 7 looks better in Picard than she ever did on Voyager.
 
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