One of the great qualities of Gene Roddenberry was that he understood how well sexy-dressed women can be to dry material like science fiction. Now Star Trek had, in its first two seasons, some excellent, thought provoking scripts. But it also had sexy ladies in appealing costumes, both on the crew of the Enterprise and in whatever alien culture they were visiting. That's one of the things Rick Berman never understood, and it's one of the reasons the later spinoffs were less memorable. I know, Seven Of Nine - - how long did it take Berman to learn that lesson?
Anyway, to the picture: A Federation officer and a Romulan officer are captured by a band of wild Andoran women for purposes that wouldn't pass network Standards And Practices review, so I'll leave it to your imagination. But Gene Roddenberry would have loved the plot.
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