You know that a studio-released movie has attained true mainstream status when the adult movie industry does a knock-off about it. Prepare yourself for the latest example of the porn industry riding on the coattails of Hollywood with next month's release of This Ain't Star Trek XXX, the home video creation of Hustler Entertainment. Unlike the marketing tagline that Paramount Pictures is using to promote their new film, this may very well be your father's Star Trek -- the one he keeps tucked away at the back of his closet and that you're not supposed to know about.

What's surprising about this dirty movie Star Trek film is that its creators seem to be honest-to-goodness fans of the original Star Trek and are striving for a higher than you typical porn quality copy job. Not only do the sets of This Ain't Star Trek XXX look surprisingly faithful to the original Star Trek sets but the storyline for the porno mirrors the classic TOS episode "Space Seed", the one that introduced perhaps the greatest villain ever to challenge Captain Kirk, Khan Noonian Singh. You may have recognized actress Sasha Grey playing This Ain't Star Trek XXX's equivalent of Lt. Marla McGivers in that photo with Khan. Grey is the start of director Steven Soderbergh's upcoming picture The Girlfriend Experience.

This Ain't Star Trek XXX's storyline begins marching in step with "Space Seed", showing Kirk and the Enterprise rescuing Khan from suspended animation. Of course there are some differences, like for instance Khan has just two followers on his ship with him and they're both beautiful women (you can see where this is headed, right?) But shortly after the Enterprise picks up Khan things diverge from the source material and start getting real physical, real quick. "Fire everything that you've got, Mr. Sulu," now starts to take on a whole different meaning.

This Ain't Star Trek XXX screenwriter Roger Krypton promises that there's plenty of opportunities for the Enterprise officers to get it on with each other. In one scene the actors playing Dr. McCoy and Nurse Chapel have to have sex because "it's a life or death situation," so that makes it all A-OK by Starfleet regs I suppose. And yeah, there's even an opportunity for Spock and Kirk to engage in a threesome with Uhura which, while it doesn't go quite all the way that the Kirk/Spock slashfic writers had been hoping, it does get them naked and in the same room with each other. It's a start, right?

Watch a clip from This Ain't Star Trek XXX on io9. Xfans has produced two behind-the-scenes videos about the production and the first one, which is embedded below, is, incredibly, safe for work!

If that whets your appetite for more, part two can be found here but it's most definately not safe for work. My goodness Nurse Chapel, that's just nasty.