The only women who are given any power or strength in Star Trek are always portrayed as extremely sexual. Their sexuality is also usually their downfall.
In the episode Catspaw, Sylvia, a shapeshifting alien, captures Captain Kirk and other members of the Enterprise crew. After multiple conversations with him she discovers she is attracted to Captain Kirk. He uses this to his advantage and tries to seduce her in order to escape.
In the Enterprise Incident (1968), the crew of the Enterprise come up with a plan to steal the Romulan's ship's cloaking device. This plan involves Spock seducing the Romulan Commander as a distraction so that Captain Kirk can sneak on board her ship to steal the device. When the plan is carried out and Spock's motivation revealed, the Romulan Commander appears hurt and misled while Spock is characteristically unmoved.
Generally, the alien women in Star Trek are promiscuous while the human women are expected to be more modest. NBC made sure that any explicit sexuality between characters involved alien women and everything else was only hinted at.
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