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| - The imbalance during pon farr could be transferred to others via a telepathic mating bond. It could also be transferred to other species during the same telepathic bond. (VOY: "Blood Fever") Certain microbes were also known to trigger pon farr prematurely. (ENT: "Bounty") Also during this period, the affected Vulcan's cortical levels rose and fell, as the brain's regulatory system appeared to shut down when serotonin levels became unbalanced. (VOY: "Blood Fever")
- Pon farr was the Vulcan time of mating, and was thus, a major part of the reproductive cycle. The pon farr occured approximately once every seven years during adulthood for both sexes. During pon farr, a Vulcan loses all emotional control and must either mate or die. (TOS episode & novelization: Amok Time; TOS movie, novelization & comic adaptation: The Search for Spock) In some rare instances, the imbalance experienced during the pon farr could be transferred to other species via a telepathic mating bond. (VOY episode: "Blood Fever")
- Pon farr is a neuro-physiological condition in Vulcans from the Star Trek continuum. Every seven years, adult Vulcans experience an overwhelming and irresistible urge to take a mate—failure to do so can result in death. It is considered an intensely private condition that they rarely speak of with anyone outside of Vulcan society. If a Vulcan suffering from it mind melds with someone, that someone develops it too, regardless of species. Such was the case between Agents Sebak (a Vulcan) and Five of Six (a Narnian dryad) in 2009.
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| - The imbalance during pon farr could be transferred to others via a telepathic mating bond. It could also be transferred to other species during the same telepathic bond. (VOY: "Blood Fever") Certain microbes were also known to trigger pon farr prematurely. (ENT: "Bounty") Also during this period, the affected Vulcan's cortical levels rose and fell, as the brain's regulatory system appeared to shut down when serotonin levels became unbalanced. (VOY: "Blood Fever") Vulcan females also endured pon farr. (ENT: "Fallen Hero") Normally, their hormones and endorphins rose to dangerous levels. Like males, females had to mate or otherwise receive treatment to survive. (ENT: "Bounty") One way to interpret pon farr is that Vulcans only have sex once every seven years. However, TOS writer and continuity story editor D.C. Fontana once explained that pon farr is not the only time Vulcans feel romantic attraction, sexual desire, or engage in sexual activity: "Vulcans mate normally any time they want to. However, every seven years you do the ritual, the ceremony, the whole thing. The biological urge. You must, but any other time is any other emotion – humanoid emotion – when you're in love. When you want to, you know when the urge is there, you do it. This every-seven-years business was taken too literally by too many people who don't stop and understand. We didn't mean it only every seven years. I mean, every seven years would be a little bad, and it would not explain the Vulcans of many different ages which are not seven years apart." – D.C. Fontana (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
- Pon farr was the Vulcan time of mating, and was thus, a major part of the reproductive cycle. The pon farr occured approximately once every seven years during adulthood for both sexes. During pon farr, a Vulcan loses all emotional control and must either mate or die. (TOS episode & novelization: Amok Time; TOS movie, novelization & comic adaptation: The Search for Spock) During the onset of the pon farr, the Vulcan underwent a neurochemical imbalance which took the form of madness, which later developed into plak tow. Unless the pon farr was satisfied, the Vulcan would die within eight days of the process beginning. (TOS episode: "Amok Time"; VOY episode: "Blood Fever") In some rare instances, the imbalance experienced during the pon farr could be transferred to other species via a telepathic mating bond. (VOY episode: "Blood Fever") In the days before Vulcans embraced Surak's teachings of peace and logic, Vulcans undergoing the pon farr would often kill in order to win a mate. After the Time of Awakening however, the koon-ut-kal-if-fee was adopted, and Vulcans became telepathically bonded when they were young. (TOS episode: "Amok Time") Due to the very private nature of the pon farr within Vulcan society, outsiders were not told of it, and Starfleet doctors only began to find out in the 23rd century. Even by the 2370s, medical knowledge about the pon farr was scarce. (VOY episode: "Blood Fever") Despite being a Vulcan offshoot, the Romulans did not go through pon farr, having removed it from their genome with genetic engineering after the Sundering. (TOS - Rihannsu novel: The Romulan Way)
- Pon farr is a neuro-physiological condition in Vulcans from the Star Trek continuum. Every seven years, adult Vulcans experience an overwhelming and irresistible urge to take a mate—failure to do so can result in death. It is considered an intensely private condition that they rarely speak of with anyone outside of Vulcan society. If a Vulcan suffering from it mind melds with someone, that someone develops it too, regardless of species. Such was the case between Agents Sebak (a Vulcan) and Five of Six (a Narnian dryad) in 2009. Pon farr is sometimes used by Sues to justify a relationship with a Vulcan. If done badly (for example, if the Vulcan is open about their condition), it is a charge.
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