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Again, it's different with Sulu because of the difference in ages. Prime Demora is too young and Sulu is too low of a rank for his prolonged absence to be that big of a factor. Kelvin version is a little different, and it's not entirely clear if that arrangement is as stable as it was in the...

On the whole, definitely. But progress comes at a price. Even desegregation in the 1960s came with more than a few unintended side effects for the black community. And the growing popularity of cochlear implants has lead to a decline in fluency in American Sign Language and what some consider an...

This is probably the universe's way of telling me I've been away from evolutionary biology far too long, especially since: ... is also a really good point. Clearly it's time to update my reading list for the week. :beer:

Maybe I'm confused, but I don't remember Awesome Possum bringing up intersex conditions. Did I miss a page when I was lurking? Sorry that you (or she) feel that way, but [0]=5691']I tend to use "dude" as a general term of affection. No offense intended. Because I like to imagine and I like to...

That was a indeed a massively disappointing plot twist.:thumbdown:

Because warp drive is faster than impulse power... ALOT faster, in fact. Impulse engines having FTL capability is actually massively unhelpful if they are several thousand times slower than warp engines. Well, no, it's exactly like being on the side of the road saying "My engine is gone, but I...

The initial hypothesis -- that humans are no different from other animals -- on Earth in that we have two distinct sexes -- could well be wrong. The research on intersex conditions does not, in my opinion, indicate that it is. It MIGHT eventually, but there isn't enough information to draw that...

Possibly so, but Kelvin Sulu's daughter is evidently OLDER than David Marcus, so the situation is probably somewhat different. It's anyone's guess how that will work out for them, if it will work out at all. A better question is whether or not Kelvin Kirk will have the same choices as his prime...

You're confusing volume with length, or under-estimate the ship's funny shape. The saucer is only 120 meters in diameter, and then only at its thickest deck; the other 6 decks are between 10 and 40 meters in diameter at most. The secondary hull is about 100 meters long, but is also only about...

It has to do with whether or not intersex conditions are separate sexes or just variations on the usual "male" and "female" dimorphisms in humans. Formally: Condition X has properties of conditions A and B. Is condition X a subset of conditions A and B, or is it a third condition that has...

Some data that would make it clear whether or not intersex conditions are actually alternate sexes rather than variations within the normal male and female dimorphism. Put it this way: My uncle was diagnosed with (and eventually died from) Marfan Syndrome. Does that make him a subspecies of...

Okay, that makes more sense. There have been a lot of articles suggesting this is the case, but the research doesn't actually say this. From what I can tell, there are prenatal factors linked to gender identity and scientists are not sure what role they actually play, whether they are causative...

Because I haven't made up my mind about how "intersex conditions" factor into this at all, and the research on that topic is sparse and sometimes contradictory. It's an interesting topic, to be sure, but it's hard to say if intersex conditions are an ordered variation from "normal" human...

Somewhat disagree, though it might just be semantics. Sexual dimorphism is any consistent (or somewhat consistent) biological difference between sexes. It doesn't strictly mean size or anatomy; male and female mallard ducks, for example, have ALMOST the same genitals even though they have...

Sure, but it's easier to take a "career break" when you're not on a five-year mission far out in deep space. We don't know what Sulu was doing in the years before Wrath of Khan, but chances are he WASN'T out on the frontier pushing the borders of Federation knowledge; even Kirk, at that point...

GOD I miss Firefly...

And the first time we see Sulu as Captain of the Excelsior is in 2291. Hell, even in Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock, Demora would have been about 16 or 17; she was probably just starting her freshman year at Starfleet Academy when Khan fired on the Enterprise. But you're right: Demora WAS...

Sulu wasn't captain of a Starship until Demora was almost grown. Also, judging by her relative age (and her appearance on Yorktown if the Kelvinverse means anything), she would have been a toddler by the time the Enterprise finished its five-year mission. That would be time enough for Sulu to...

I don't misunderstand, I just disagree. I believe that gender identity is something very complicated that evolves over time and I DON'T believe it's something that people are simply born with. I believe -- at the current time, based on what I've read -- that it is MOSTLY governed by genetics and...

They dabbled with this in The Culture novels too. One of the agents from Special Circumstances spent a couple of decades as a man before deciding to have her genes altered and switch back to being a woman (I think it was "Surface Matter" but it's been a while since I read them).