Random Star Trek discussion

Do you think transgender people sprang from the brow of George Soros in 2015, or something?

I had a professor in college who was transgender, 25 years ago. Jean M. Auel wrote a "neither man nor woman" character into The Valley of Horses back in 1982. Transgender and nonbinary people have existed for a long, long time.

Now, in 1992 when "The Outcast" was filmed, people like you were devoting proportionately much more of their energy to shitting on gays. So it's likely that serving as an allegory for homophobia and that particular type of conversion therapy was at the forefront of the writers' minds. But it is clearly also about gender identity because, well ... that's part of the literal plot. It isn't even allegorical.

MASH; the one with Mariette Hartley as the Swedish nurse Hawkeye falls for.
She casually offers Klinger to hook him up with GRS.
In the 70's; in a show set in the 50's.

AI Chatbots Are Better at Math When They Pretend to Be Star Trek Characters

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I remember shows like 20/20 doing pieces on transgender people when I was in grade school. I think I was in third grade at the oldest when one such story came on about a "gay" couple, in which one decided to transition, then the other half of the pair realized she was also trans and now we're trans lesbians. I also went to a Lambda meeting with a friend of mine in 2005 in which I met a trans girl who by many accounts could pass for name (and like dud so for safety reasons) who described herself as "male outside but a lesbian inside." My gay cousin had more stud girlfriends than I could shake a stick at.

And of course, I was a Fandom Kid, so I was never able to avoid queerness online even if I wanted to.

None of this is new to anyone that didn't have their heads in the sand.

I remember way back in the day when alfonso ribiero was dating his crossdressing best friend ricky schroder on different strokes. No one batted an eye at that, even though the psychological ramifications of outing ricky's crossdressing habits and his trans jungle fever way too early sure seems to have fucked his shit up for life.

“They”? They who?

Unlike yourself, not only was I alive in the 1960s, but I also remember them.

Fool that you are, you think people today are so very different. They are not.

the only thing that has changed, is the pervasive choke of a perverted mutation of organized religion.

Keep your shit to yourself.

Pink and purple means that will be a double dicker trans female klingon. I feel so bad for trans klingons. Twice the wrong genitals means twice the dysphoria, but at least you can kill anyone who challenges your gender expression legally. Not to mention screaming when you see a pair of klingon penises in the ladies room means complete dishonor for your family. There is no pearl clutching on kling. Piss or pull out your blade and die like a true warrior.

Would it be really quiet in klingon restrooms because if you talk and make the piss stop someone is going to kill you so they can relieve themselves in peace, or are the klingons all shouting and seeing how far they can piss or how big a deuce they can drop to honor Gowron?

They as in the writers.

Yes.

Flipping channels, landed on "Charmed" and bam, there's Anthony Montgomery!
The episode is a year before Enterprise.

The next dude who wandered in after he left?
Julian McMahon! Dr. Doom!

Julian McMahon is the only reason I watched Charmed.

Something about the title "Movie for a Sunday Evening" is delightfully archaic.

Today is a good day to Pinkie Pie.

Yeah, so, anybody want to count how many things are wrong with this image?

Okay, so the Kobayashi Maru is 19 periods from Altair 6. They're in the Neutral Zone. Anybody know how far Altair is from the Earth?

If people in the Star Trek universe can be put in stasis like Kahn, but the technology has gotten better since 1996, then why have warp ships in the first place?

Random particle decay. No shit. I'm not going to go digging for it but on the Cosmoquest/Universe Today/Bad Astronomer forum some years back a poster worked out issues related to stasis/suspended animation in a universe where FTL wasn't a thing. Turns out that if you spend long enough time in such a state, odds were that a significant number of folks would be subjected to a severe enough instance of random particle decay over periods of time shorter than what FTL would allow, that you'd be dead (or the systems involved in controlling the stuff keeping you in stasis/suspended animation would have suffered a glitch fatal to you) long before you reached your destination.

Also sublight ships aren't helpful when the Klingons are attacking a different star system or you need to get the cure to Beta Plaguestar III within forty-eight hours.

You'd have no Federation. Maintaining any sort of galactic society with ships that take years to get anywhere would be impossible. You'd be limited to small sets of close-together systems at best. This is one area Enterprise really got it right - warp 5 is about where travel becomes fast enough to meet the needs of interstellar trade, colonisation and exploration on the scale needed for the Federation or similar entities.

Even then, they had to resort to speed of plot as Warp 5 - hell, even Warp 9 - is never actually fast enough to respond to a distress call coming from a colony 4 light years away and have a hope of getting there whilst the attack is still in progress.