Unlike many other genre/erotica hybrids, Pleasurecraft takes itself fairly seriously – you don’t get the sense that most of the cast don’t believe a single word of it. Certainly some of the characters are not particularly convincing – the three girls are simply California beach bunnies and do not in any way seem like they are alien or naive about human customs. And Paul Johnson, playing the ship’s emotionless android, is rather wooden – rather than uninflected and emotionless he seems more perpetually cross and abrupt. On the plus side Juan Carlos as the captain gives a strong and effective performance. He is an actor that could easily make it as a leading man in mainstream films.

Many of these erotic films have been quite inventive in discovering ways that various themes or recurrent plots within the genre can be turned towards erotic ends. In this case the story is taken from an episode of Star Trek, Elaan of Troyius (1968), that featured France Nuyen as an intergalactic ambassador being transported to a political marriage by The Enterprise, whose tears were capable of making men fall obsessively in love with her and who ended up falling for Captain Kirk and deciding she wanted to be with him instead of her intended husband. Pleasurecraft offers three women instead of one but the story is the same in all essential regards.