And now Cogenitor. Some thoughts.

[Gingerbread Demon]

It is an interesting question though. When does ethics allow us to interfere and when not?

Are we allowed to interfere when we discover an alien species that condones slavery, and has done so for thousands of years? Are we allowed to interfere if we discover a primitive human tribe (that up until now lived in complete isolation and autonomy) that does so? I can't really think of a valid reason why the answer would be 'no' in the first circumstance, and 'yes' in the second …. (save perhaps for reasoning like 'the aliens form a sovereign political power and territory whereas the humans were discovered in country x and hence fall under their jurisdiction and their laws', which still feels a bit hollow to me).

As for that stratopod…. I'd like to think that metaphasic shielding, as invented by that Ferengi Reyga, and also advances in construction, further augmented by Borg technology as used in the Delta Flyer would be some steps along the way towards eventually creating an equivalent Starfleed pod. But even those steps are 200 years after Archer's time.

Yeah I would love to think somewhere along the line we can get a sun cruiser that could dive into a sun and study it from the inside.

 

[at Quark's]

Yeah I would love to think somewhere along the line we can get a sun cruiser that could dive into a sun and study it from the inside.

Even in the 24th century, it still might be some centuries off for the Federation. After all, the Vissians invented warp drive about 1000 years before Archer's time, so they could have a significant headstart ….

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

congenitors were now only used by wealthy douche bag hipsters.

Are you sure about that?

I got the impression that all reproduction in Vissian society required a cogenitor.

 

[EmoBorg]

Just because the cogenitor looked female it doesn't mean that she superficially had similar genitals to the female of it's own female gender, or a human female.
She needed for foreplay.
Maybe the males o
Maybe the cogenitor unlocks the penis, or turns it on, before it'll start firing live rounds into his wife.

Just because the cogenitor looked female it doesn't mean that she superficially had similar genitals to the female of it's own female gender, or a human female.

Maybe the cogenitor unlocks the penis, or turns it on, before it'll start firing live rounds into his wife.

Maybe the male Vissians cannot get it up with a female. So he needs the cogenitor to make him get it up before mating. The third gender has the biochemicals in it's biology to make him aroused.

 

[Guy Gardener]

What if the third gender is a recent artificial introduction to limit the expansion of the species by a government of controlling dicks?

Or the three genders could be from two space faring species (with only two genders) interbreeding, again recently, whereafter their hybrid offspring, are in this challenging pickle.

 

[Charles Phipps]

You know, when I watched this, I assumed this was a commentary on the Taliban (because the Suliban existed) and the horrific treatment of women in Afghanistan. The fact that I have seen people defending Archer's actions makes me wonder if I misread this because I can't imagine the writers actually would have thought the Taliban's enslavement of women was correct.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

This thread has been inactive for over a year - best to let it rest in peace.

A new "Cogenitor" discussion thread is here.