Chapter 33 - What is a Klingon Painstik? (Patreon)

"That looks like a Klingon painstik!!" B'Elanna half yelled in alarm, jumping away from me in alarm and looking extremely confused after she witnessed Laren's unanticipated…reaction…to it.

Well, it certainly looked like one, because it kind of was, in a sense. At least it had started that way, and had been the starting device I’d been inspired by.

"Yep! It looks like one, because it started off as one, before I extensively modified the design and inversed the effect," I told the two ladies with a large smile and a laugh. Laren still looked a bit loopy and that smile looked like it would take a lot of hard work to get rid of. Had I set it too high?? "Shortened it and made the energy discharge glow blue, rather than red. Unlike the original painstik, which stimulates the nerve endings to produce agonizing pain, it actually does the opposite and produces pleasure of varying, controllable intensity."