repressing one's romantic desires theme

A character strives consciously to ignore their innate sexual urges.

10 total · 7 major · 3 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
tng1x03 major A polywater intoxicated Picard tried to keep his romantic feelings for Beverly in check.
tng5x21 major Picard struggled to keep his romantic feeling for Kamala to himself.
tos2x05 major Spock tried to keep the sexual fires that burned within him in check while under the influence of the pon farr.
voy3x14 major Harry tried to distance himself from a holodeck character with whom he'd fallen in love.
voy3x16 major Vorik and B'Elanna struggled to keep their sexual urges in check while under the pon farr.
voy5x13 major Young Tuvok was told by his master that he must learn to control his emotions, especially his romantic attraction toward Jara. Tuvok repressed his romantic interest in Noss.
voy7x07 major Tuvok was struggling to keep his sexual urges in check while under the pon farr.
ds94x06 minor Lenara was reluctant to rekindle her relationship with Jadzia even though she desired to do so.
ent2x05 minor Phlox confronted Archer about the possibility that Archer was repressing his sexual desire for T'Pol.
tng6x03 minor Riker pleaded with Troi to exercise a modicum of self-restraint in the name of decency.