It turns out that William Shatner isn’t the only published author in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Stephen Collins, the former 7th Heaven actor whose life has come crashing down after allegations of child molestation surfaced, is one too.
On Thursday, Gawker discovered that Collins had written and published two erotic novels during the mid 1990s, one of which was published after the show about him raising seven children as a pastor debuted.
Collins’ first book was Eye Contact, published in 1994. This one is about a wannabe actress named Nicolette "Nick" Stallings, who has uncontrollable sexual desires. After just 20 pages, she already has oral sex with a man after a date. In another section, she does her best to drop a towel in front of a man. This bizarrely mirrors a woman’s claim that Collins dropped his own towel in front of her when she was 11. According to TMZ, this woman’s story ultimately sparked the NYPD investigation of Collins.
UPDATE: TMZ now reports that the woman had heard of the novels around 2000, which lead to her writing an anonymous letter to Faye Grant. She later went to the police in 2012 and the NYPD began their investigation.
The woman’s experiences in Eye Contact “were not merely frowned upon, but illegal and sick,” Collins wrote.
Collins wrote another novel called Double Exposure, which was published in 1998, two years after 7th Heaven started. This one centers on a male television critic who urges a couple to share their sexual fantasies. Collins also focuses on the thrill of getting capture in the middle of a sexual act.
The actor was recorded talking about molesting a young girl in a 2012 therapy session. This tape leaked on TMZ, causing a chain reaction that included losing his jobs on Scandal and Ted 2. His estranged wife, Faye Grant had reportedly accused him of incestuous thoughts.
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