Sex with Toasters
One of the most important plot points in Ronald D. Moore’s Battlestar Galactica series is sex between human beings and humanoid Cylons. Although human beings deeply fear and disrespect their enemy, the Cylons, and even refer to them with extreme prejudice as toasters, it was inevitable that human beings would have sex with toasters.
This is so because the Cylons had a plan to bring it about. The motivation for this Cylon plan to entice human males to have sexual intercourse with female humanoid Cylons was to give the Cylons the power of sexual reproduction of their species.
The honor of being the first human male enticee into this liaison goes to Lieutenant Karl “Helo” Agathon (played by Tamoh Peniket).
The female enticee is Cylon Sharon (played by Grace Park).
The happy couple are thrown together by circumstance on Cylon occupied Caprica, one of the home planets of the human race that was nuked by the Cylons. Helo did not realize that he was being tricked into spending time with Cylon Sharon on Caprica to fulfill the Cylon plan for him to start having sex with her.
He was manipulated by Cylon Sharon into enjoying his interactions with her on the planet Caprica. He grew comfortable with her and enjoyed tender moments of laughter, for example.
Before too much time had passed, however, Helo and Cylon Sharon were drawn together emotionally, and, as planned, he started to show that he felt sexually attracted to her.
He lights her up. On Battlestar Galactica, whenever a humanoid Cylon female has an orgasm, her spine glows red.
