A recent episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” — called “The Serene Squall” — opened with a conversation between T’Pring (Gia Sandhu) and Spock (Ethan Peck) on the lack of sexual passion in their long-distance relationship.
T’Pring reveals that, since Spock has been living among humans, she has been reading several human authors said to be experts in sexuality.
She namedrops Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer,” Erica Jong’s “Fear of Flying,” as well as “The Argonauts” by Maggie Nelson, an extended essay on gender, sexuality, and pregnancy that won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2015.
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