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The [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Captain Kirk]] approach to "first contact" namely, to have sex with a [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]]. Of course, questions of [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] are never raised beforehand, such as whether the species in question has [[Mermaid Problem|compatible genitals]] in the first place or if its bodily fluids are [[Alien (franchise)|caustic to human flesh]] (or vice-versa).

 

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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* The ''[[XXXenophile]]'' story "My Favorite Oitling."

* In [[Mike Resnick]]'s ''The Outpost'', [[Magnificent Bastard]] Hurricane Smith, one of the galaxy's top bounty hunters, has this trope has his main passion in life. He's already had five ex/late-wives, all different alien species, as he finds human women to "all look the same". After he and his fellow bounty hunters help save the galactic human Democracy from a genocidal alien invasion, he is last seen in romantic pursuit of a ''sentient spaceship'' (with female A.I.), as he rebounds from the death-in-battle of his last wife, an insectoid shapeshifter.

 

* Arguably averted by ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]''. While Captain Kirk fell in love with a new person weekly, and there were quite a lot of interspecies kisses, the writers only made it clear he'd had sex on two occasions: once, a native wife became pregnant, and once the show returned from commercial to find a woman brushing her hair in his room while he put his boots back on. There are numerous examples of interspecies reproduction throughout the franchise, however, so apparently quite a few individuals boldly came.

* [[The Big Bang Theory]] pointed out the ludicrousness of this trope:

* As did Scott Adams in ''The [[Dilbert]] Future''. See [[Boldly Coming/Quotes|the Quotes page]].

* It's established on ''[[Doctor Who]]'' that by Capt. Jack Harkness' time (the 51st century) [[Fetish Fuel Future|this is humanity's attitude]] to space exploration. Of course, they're also [[Everyone Is Bi|more flexible]] about the [[Free-Love Future|genders involved.]]

** It has this in the series finale. Upon finding {{spoiler|[[Human Aliens|human natives]] on the planet Kara led them to}}, the first thing Gaius Baltar talks about is their genetic compatibility with the Colonials. Adama does not let this go without a [[Lampshade Hanging]] at Baltar's expense.

** Ladies and gentlemen, I present the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140418004851/http://www.battlestargalactica-wiki.com/page/Battlestar+Galactica+Frakmap Frakmap]

* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'':

* In the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' episode "First Contact", Commander Riker gets an offer to help him escape a hospital facility from a nurse in exchange for this.

{{quote|'''Riker:''' "The things I do for Starfleet."}}

 

== [[Music]] ==

* "E.T." by [[Katy Perry]], especially the version with [[Kanye West]].

{{quote|'''Kanye:''' Tell me what's next, alien sex / I'mma disrobe you, then I'mma probe you / See I abducted you / So I tell you what to do!}}

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** Male Sims (and likewise female Sims) can [[Is That What They're Calling It Now?|woohoo]] with aliens of either sex in their neighborhoods or homes.

** Also, if an adult male Sim gets abducted while looking into the expensive telescope, he comes back traumatized and [[Mister Seahorse|pregnant]]. (Female Sims may come back traumatized, but almost never pregnant. Usually to get a female Sim to have an alien baby, she either has to woohoo with a male alien in her neighborhood (or home if he lives with/is married to her), or visit the Tombstone of Life and Death and choose " make me alien pregnant" from the pie menu.)

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Dmitri from ''[[Spacetrawler]]'' has made it a personal goal to experiment with any alien which is "at least 50% compatible". 50% compatibility covers quite a range of bizarre alien biologies thus far.

 

* ''[[Three Worlds Collide]]'' features a [[First Contact]] scenario between humans and two other sentient spacefaring species simultaneously. One of these, dubbed "Super Happies", takes this trope and runs with it - ''all'' their communication, both among themselves and with other species, is based around having sex.

** More than that. Their communication IS having sex - it seems that evolution decided that, while one transfers genetic information, all sorts of other information might be traded as well.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==