Pon farr

In the universe of fiction of Star Trek , the Pon farr is part of the reproductive cycle of the Vulcan S occurring roughly once every seven years lasting the period of fertility of the life of adult.

Although acouplement is apréendé with a logic disequente, Pon far is regarded as being an intimate thing.

Context

During the period of the Pon farr , Vulcains make the experiment of the “fever of blood”, a mental state which makes them lose any control on their emotions and which oblige them to seek a sexual partner. They feel also the imperative need to return in their world to find a partner. The Pon farr affects the two sexes, however its release in the female vulcaine can sometimes find its origin in a telepathic contact with a male of the same species.

For this period, the biological functions of Vulcains increase way out-standard and in the case of an impossibility of coupling, imbalance neurochimic can result in death, even if techniques were developed to face this period when the circumstances make the coupling impossible.

It happens that two vulcains wish the same partner. They must then fight. The lady has the right to choose its defender, to see to fight itself.

The Pon farr skin also the Vulcan of its usual logical direction and floods its spirit of unverifiable emotions, often of a nature intensely sexual. The Vulcan, male or female, become violent then and without consideration for its environment. It can be also started by disease-causing agents.

A developed case

At the stellar date 50537.2, the Vorik ensign in function on the US To travel knows his first Pon farr , and seen the situation of the vessel Voyager , lost in the Quadrant Delta - it cannot turn over on Vulcan to find a partner. He then asks the chief engineer B' Elanna Torres to hold this role (see VOY : “Thirst for blood”) and in front of its refusal, it is submerged by the emotions, attacks Torres and begins the process of the Pon farr via a mental fusion which manages to infect the chief engineer.

Once put at the current of the situation, Tuvok, the officer of safety as a chief of the To travel and Vulcan also, is charged for him to try to help Vorik by means of techniques of meditation - another means of solving the Pon farr . In spite of its new state, B' Elanna continuous to refuse to reach at the request of Vorik and is turned over towards the lieutenant Tom Paris with whom it expresses his interest but which pushes back it knowing that it is under the influence of an unusual behavior.

Vorik then wishes to launch the Koon-C-kal-yew-fairy - the “combat of passion” - provocant Tom Paris whereas this one starts to reach at the request of B' Elanna. B' Elanna, into good Klingon, does not decide to fight for itself and, demolishing Vorik, breaks the “fever of blood”.

Notable episodes

TOS : “Evil of the country” ( Amok Time )
VOY: “The thirst for blood” ( Blood Fever )
ENT: “Bargain hunter” ( Bounty )

See too

External bond

Memory Alpha: Pon farr

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