Star Trek #30

[superfangirl1]

I do love stories that show alternate and parallel universes. :)

Comments

[jeyl]

It's not a bad example, but I still consider it a stretch. Heck, It's not even the first instance where a female Trill is attracted to another female. The thing is that these relationships both end up "not working" by the end of the episode and both main female characters wind up being paired with a main male character (Beverly/Picard, Dax/Worf or Bashir). Still no where near as bad as what they did on "The Outcast".

[icon_uk]

In the episode "The Host" where a sort of proto-Trill species debuted, we have Odan, a male host (Who Dr Crusher was romantically interested in) dying and the Trill passing on to a female host (after spending a few days in Commander Riker), also now Odan.

At least they had the scene where Crusher notes that she would find such a relationship (where the one who is loved would retain the knowledge of the past bodies, but might change body and gender) impossible for her. She doesn't judge Odan (which would have been insnaely crass) but herself for not being able to accept that kind of relationship, and expresses a hope that someday humanity might find such a relationship viable. Since such a thing can't happen in human society terms, I'll give them a bit of leeway on that one.

[shadowpsykie]

i think she even made it explicityly clear that it wasn't because she was a female. It's the idea that they would change hosts, they would be the same person, but they would also have the memories of the previous person. it was hard for her to wrap her mind around that concept.

hmmm going over my research, i may be off... i need to rewatch that episode....

but yeah i also saw it as a reference to acceptance of homosexual relationships

[ozaline]

Or of transexuality, the line reminds me of Ozma's "I'm still the same old Tip you know."

Though of course Oban's desire to continue the relationship doesn't gell with the trill laws introduced later (but that's okay).

Jaddzia was shown to be pansexual, in more than the one episode... There was a lot of hints of her having interest in other women, there was the erotic pottery scene on Riza where Worf gets jealous for example.

And I don't think it's just because she's a joined Trill, it seemed to be very much a part of who Jaddzia is (though in the early bits of the first season she made references to joined Trills often being chaste and implied she was, so who even knows).