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- Subject: Re: ST: Deep Space Nine, possible bi?
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 03:45:52 GMT
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- In article <trussell.727283210@cwis>, trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell) writes:
- >robear@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jay Michael) writes:
- >
- >>Knowing that Star Trek likes to be controversial, it is possible that a bi
- >>story may pop up, especially since there doesn't seem to be much of a reason
- >>to have dax as one particular orientation.
-
- Star Trek really only likes to be controversial on certain issues--PC ones
- like peace and harmony. Due to the fact that Gene Roddenberry was a raging
- homophobe (I may be rehashing stuff y'all know if you're serious fans, which if
- you're watching Deep Space Nine you must be), homosexuality was just never
- dealt with. There have been alternative sexualities I'm sure...maybe...but
- they've all involved odd wedding customs and whatnot, all of which were of
- course heterosexual.
-
- > I kinda doubt they will bother, because the Trill themselves (the slugs)
- >are asexual. Evidently the host bodies still exert some *pressure* on the
- >Trill, but I don't see the writers bothering too much, especially since
- >Dax is/was the commander's mentor, not a love interest.
- >
- > More than likely they are going to portray Dax as basically asexual, but
- >others of the appropriate gender (male) will come on to him/her/it for
- >obvious reasons.
- >
- Something about Star Trek that has always struck me as ridiculous is their
- treatment of sexuality (it's all roughly the same to me). They've passed up at
- least one opportunity to cope graciously with the topic, where they had Beverly
- Crusher fall in love with one of these beasties when it was in a male form, and
- its next host was female (cute, too), and they used this as her excuse to break
- off the relationship altogether. Not even a "maybe in a few years we'll meet up
- again and have a chat." OK, so I accept that Beverly came out as heterosexual
- there--I still don't like it. My other favorite episode where the writers
- ducked out is the one where Geordie Laforge falls in love with this brilliant
- engineer he's created a copy of on the holodeck, and she meets him and finds
- out about it and is royally annoyed because it's nothng like her, and when
- she's cooled off she explains that she's not interested anyway (even though she
- holds him in the highest regard) because she's...married. They talk about
- death OK in that show, why can't they have a lesbian whom we're never going to
- see again anyway? Rats.
-
- Then again, maybe it's better that they don't do it at all than that they
- completely screw up an attempt--all too possible.
-
- > Still, who knows? It would be a pleasant surprise, but I'm not holding
- >my breath...
-
- Me neither. Pale blue just isn't my color.
-
- >--
- > Tim Russell Omaha, NE trussell@unomaha.edu
- > "Hate is not a family value. Boycott Colorado." - Melinda Shore
-
- -Ximena Cearley, aka Schwartzberg on occasion, lurking along.
-