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The Blatant Heterophobia of J.J. Abrams

You're also forgetting the blatatnly gay relationship between NuScotty and Keenser and the symbolism of NuSulu whipping out his extending sword while tussling with a bunch of men. It's insidious. I expect NuSulu will be killed in the next movie to help remove some of the taint so don't worry too much.
 
Great, not only do I keep seeing Voyager as a penis now, but I've got the image of semi-naked Sulu and his "little sword" running around in my head.

I need to bleach my brain. :P
 
I'm still waiting for a Star Trek series where everyone is gay.

There's a movie, anyway. It's a German parody called (T)Raumschiff, and the Kirk, Spock, Scotty and McCoy characters are gay. Their ship, based on the design of the U.S.S. Voyager, looks like a giant penis and testicles.:)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumschiff_Surprise_%E2%80%93_Periode_1

I always saw Voyager as a hand trough, now I can't unsee the penis shape. :eek:

I've always seen Voyager as a giant metal penis. I've thought of it as an expression of Janeway's envy of the other Captains of Star Trek.

In later seasons on it became something to be shoved down the Borg Queen's throat.
 
Referring to the first post, I think J.J. Abrams went out of his way to show the sheeple (your fat, popcorn-loving American, who wants his movies to explain things for him) just how heterosexual the main characters were. In what I call a case of the 'not-gays':

Kirk: Laid that Orion chick, his eyes always stray to anything with hips and boobs.

Spock: Allows Uhura to pay him some lip-service.

McCoy: He was formerly married, so he has the 'not-gays'.

Scotty: Makes some reference about some former (heterosexual) relationship.

Uhura: Really digs Spock; emotional support my ass.

Sulu: We all know Sulu is gay.

Chekov: ?

What I'm trying to say is that J.J. Abrams deliberately threw in references to show that the main characters (the important ones: Kirk and Spock) were as straight as a die. So really the name of the topic should be changed to 'the blatant homophobia of J.J. Abrams'. I mean why is he so obsessed with making all the characters (discarding Sulu of course) straight? And why does it matter the actor who plays the new Spock, say is he gay, and that makes everyone think that the new Spock is now gay?

Hello people! Ever you heard of a thing called ACTING before? Perhaps people's brains are more malleable than I imagined.
 
- In The City on the Edge of Forever, Kirk falls in love. Edith's sentence? Death.

In the original script, Spock has to hold Kirk in a homoerotic embrace to prevent him from saving Edith's life, clearly showing Spock as the the morally superior character (remember, much was made of Spock's many advantages over the merely human crewmembers), physically preventing Kirk from continuing to stray into heteronormativity, and bringing him back into the all-male fold of the triumvirate.

In addition to Spock "showing Kirk the light," as it were, there is also an element of Biblical jealousy, as Kirk was going to leave him and McCoy for an unnatural relationship with a woman. Now, Spock's Vulcan salute, in addition to being a cruel mockery of the heterosexual-exclusive "shocker," is derived from a traditional Jewish gesture. This rabbinical reference, along with Spock's above-mentioned superior strength and intellect was intended to cast him as the Old Testament "God" of the Enterprise. Kirk (the name meaning "church") represents His Chosen People, and "City" is ultimately a story of God keeping His children from false idols by saving them from woman, who we will remember from Eve in the Garden, represents the Fall From Grace, as she is the gateway to the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (which, of course, represents heteronormative morality, which is the evil that destroys the pure, symmetrical love between two men).

After rewrites, of course, the filmed version of the episode concluded with Kirk himself restraining McCoy (who represents the traitorous duo of polyamory and bisexuality in this draft) from saving Edith, as Star Trek was a fundamentally optimistic and humanistic show, so it was necessary for Kirk (read: the Hebrews) to ultimately make the right choice without Spock (read: God's) guidance, showing that he has matured to adulthood and is capable of making morally correct choices, unswayed by the false, seductive morality of heteronormal women.
 
Trust me, I am as upset about it as you are.
But I'm not worried!
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