Oh! Cool. Thanks. I didn't know that. That being said, there's no real mandate that they be held accountable for seeing that other cultures' values be upheld, beyond just courtesy. If they want to interfere, & feel they have grounds to do so, by the fact that this infant was under their protection at the time it was born & since, there's nothing to say otherwise, really.
If there's only one female born every 75 years in a species of billions, it's entirely possible that none of the Moclan ever thought to tell anyone about it. If you met an alien race, would it occur to you to tell them about every uncommon genetic anomaly that might occur to a human being? Would you suddenly start blurting out details regarding Huntington's Disease or Xeroderma Pigmentosum?
If multitudes of those other races were peoples who routinely accepted the condition as normal, & an equal part of their society, when your society abhors, corrects, or shuns their people who have it, yeah, probably. For example, if I met a species who have hermaphroditism happen all the time, so much so that they unquestioningly considering it a third equally accepted gender, I might say "Hey you know, here's an odd relevant fact. Humans DO have that condition too, but it's really rare & the people with it have a hard time in our society because of it." That race might think it just as outlandish for us to surgically correct people because of it, especially if we did it as a matter of societal norm. Yeah, that seems like something pretty much everyone would find out eventually. Unless the Moclans are new to the Union, I get the feeling a number of folks knew about it before this too, but it's kept on the hush hush
I meant mostly fleet command or the governing body, whatever & whoever they are lol
Okay, what if we weren't talking about gender, but sexual orientation. What if we could detect that a child was born gay and could easily reassign their sexual orientation as a child to make them "straight", and they wouldn't even know unless you told them. After all, members of the LGBT community are actually persecuted. In some places in the world, there's active, organized genecide against gay people. If a NATO soldier from a country that practiced sexual orientation reassignment asked a US vessel to rendezvous with a ship from their nation so such a procedure could be performed, should the US vessel be required to fulfill that request?
Moclans might mention in passing that females are almost never born, but they may not necessarily discuss what happens to them after they're born.
The thing I get the impression a lot of people are missing about this show is that it is not about the future and futuristic society. It's about a group of people who live in the future, though that society isn't much different than our own today. In this respect, the show is more like Star Trek TOS, which was moreso about the characters despite its visual similarity to TNG, which was more about the future and society than it was the characters.
Even the Moclans who had undergone the operation didn't know about it. It must one of the best kept secret in the Moclan society.
That's very true. Even TOS did a little world building though. I don't think much is needed, because of the show's dynamic, like you say, but a kernel here and there goes a long way for setting... At least among the Star Trek fans this show appeals to. Lol
They knew about it, that it existed & was a thing their people did. They didn't know that they themselves had been subjected to it, like never telling your kid they're adopted. They still know that adoption exists, & some of them find ways to figure it out on their own too
Here is where we all consider taking Metalaw 101. I'm sure questions like this are asked all the time in academic circles in anticipation of a time when it's not just talking about a TV show.
