- "They're like animals. Vicious, seductive. They say no human male can resist them." — Commodore Mendez - as projected onto the Enterprise by the Talosians. (TOS: "The Menagerie, Part II")
The Orion slave sisters aboard the Enterprise in 2154.
Orion slave girls were female Orions who were very popular "commodities" trafficked through the slavemarkets of the Orion Syndicate.
In 2154 some Enterprise crewmembers wound up as commodities themselves at a processing station on Verex III. When Captain Archer expressed surprise that the Orions would sell their own kind, Arik Soong told him the females were "known for their extreme appetites, their innate skills". The Verex market's #1 Orion slaver had even sold his last wife! (ENT: "Borderland")
Later that year the secret of the Orion slave girls' irresistibility was discovered when the slave sisters Navaar, D'Nesh, and Maras were presented to Captain Archer, ostensibly to improve relations between Earth and the Orions. Their presence became a major distraction to the crew of the Enterprise due--it turned out--to the powerful pheromones which they were releasing. Additionally it was determined that the sisters were not truly enslaved at all, but were active agents in a plot to capture the Enterprise for their Syndicate. (ENT: "Bound")
- As the so-called slave girls in "Bound" turned out to be running the show, the slave markets / processing stations too would most likely be other than what they seem. The Orion females may actually use such venues as a means of deploying themselves - always to increase the power of the Syndicate.
Vina fantasized as a "green Orion animal woman"
In the 2250s Captain Pike had some personal experience of Orion culture to weigh against Starfleet's 22nd century scientific insights. In 2254 his fantasy of doing business on the colony of Orion at one point came to include Vina in the form of an animal woman. One of his fantasized guests remarked that the natives were "funny" because they "actually like being taken advantage of". (TOS: "The Cage")
Mad Garth's unhappy consort
The Elysian's enslaved Interpreter
In 2269 the Enterprise ran into Orion females on two occasions :
In the insurrectional penal colony on Elba II, Marta was the unfortunate escort of Garth of Izar. (TOS: "Whom Gods Destroy")
- It is perhaps a mark of Garth's insanity that he seems quite removed from the suggestible state in which the healthy human male finds himself. His attraction for Marta too seems to be past - unless it is the source of the great resentment Garth obviously feels toward her.
In Elysia, Devna was the Interpreter of Laws for the Elysian Council. She missed her home planet but in the end decided not to return there. (TAS: "The Time Trap")
By the 24th Century, Orion slave girls had become quite popular characters in holosuite programs. (DS9: "The Begotten", "In the Pale Moonlight")
Michael Eddington once told Miles O'Brien and Julian Bashir a story about a four-legged Talorian and an Orion slave girl. (DS9: "For the Uniform")
While in the brig aboard the USS Honshu, Dukat casually requested a bottle of kanar and an Orion slave girl to help him pass the time. (DS9: "Waltz")
- The term "Orion animal women" is used by Doctor Boyce derisively, in order to help his captain see that he could never really live the life of a flesh trader on the Orion colony. Otherwise the term is uncanonical, though used in the Star Trek Encyclopedia.