Talk:Orion Slave Girl
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were very popular "commodities" on the slavemarkets of the Orion Syndicate. According to Arik Soong, they were well known for their "extreme appetites" and their "innate skills". (ENT: "Borderland")
It has been said that no human male could resist them. (TOS: "The Menagerie, Part II") An officer once noted that, "Orion women actually enjoy being taken advantage of." (TOS: "The Cage")
In 2154 it was discovered why they were irresistible. Three Orion slave girls, Navaar, D'Nesh, and Maras, were given to Captain Archer to help improve relations between Earth and the Orions. Their presence was a major distraction to the crew of the Enterprise due to the pheromones female Orions release. It was determined that the slave girls were not slaves at all and in fact were part of a plot to capture Enterprise. (ENT: "Bound")
- As the 'so called' slave girls in "Bound" turned out to be running the show, the slave markets themselves would most likely also not be as they seem, perhaps acting as a means of distributing Orion females to increase the power of the Syndicate.
[edit] Hair Color
According to "Inside Star Trek: The Real Story" by Herbert F. Solow and Robert H. Justman the Orion dancer wigs were all Black. FrankWilliams 18:49, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
