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.

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)[reply]

Kusma keeps reverting more than one picture for this article. Please indicate which part of the WP:FU policy states that only one photo is allowed on a short page. As mentioned in the edit comments, there are three different looks because they came from three different periods of Star Trek production: the pilot episode (1964); a third season episode (1968); and an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise (2005). That is why I've posted the other images, and I haven't received adequate information to explain why two more images are disallowed. Abebenjoe 00:12, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Abebenjoe; leave the pics alone. There are plenty of wiki articles that have more then one pic. The rationale above seems reasonable to me and there no no wiki policies that I know of that binds articles to just one pic. FrankWilliams 12:15, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

From WP:FU: "The material must contribute significantly to the article (e.g. identify the subject of an article, or specifically illustrate relevant points or sections within the text) and must not serve a purely decorative purpose. (...) The amount of copyrighted work used should be as little as possible. (...) Do not use multiple images or media clips if one will serve the purpose adequately."

There is no discussion of the difference between the Orion slave girls in different episodes in the article text. The image captions do not even say which girls are from which episode, or even that the images are from Star Trek episodes and not fan impressions. (Incidentally, the article is written mostly from an in-universe perspective, against the relevant style guide Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)). There is no explicit rule that says there should be only one non-free image. For example, Padmé Amidala has two non-free images but a lot of text to go with them. Here, one should be enough, especially as the pictures look like they are used decoratively, not for critical commentary. Kusma (talk) 12:46, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, fair enough. I've added material explaining the difference and utilizing the image for clarification FrankWilliams 16:27, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of paragraphs of an earlier version of this article are copvios from the Memory Alpha article here -- specifically, the ones mentioning Dukat and holosuite programs. --EEMeltonIV 22:17, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]