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Breaking Convention

Johnny

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Theres this great line in TNG where Wriker puts Worf in his place about the dress tunics looking like...well, a dress.
"Mr Worf, that is an out modest and sexist attitude!", and I just thought it captured how peoples perception of what is acceptable in the future is different to present day, and when Seven takes flowers to Chakotay, and he accept them as if it were normal, or at least not abnormal.
I don't wanna go down the lesbian/gay/bi/transgender/transexual/asexual/omnisexual or any other sexual, because I think it's been covered to death.
Anyone remember any eps where what we class as the norm would have been broken without there being any big hoorah over it in the story, almost like the writer came at the story from more of an in-universe way of thinking, not writing a reaction that we see as stereotypical?
 
By 60’s standards, I think that having a black woman on the bridge is well against the norm, but it wasn’t at all commented on, save for Lincoln in The Savage Curtain. (Pike also had a line about women on the bridge in “The Cage,” but that line was not included in the footage used in “The Menagerie.”)
 
Theres this great line in TNG where Wriker puts Worf in his place about the dress tunics looking like...well, a dress.
"Mr Worf, that is an out modest and sexist attitude!",

That line makes me laugh, becuase I think Riker is poking fun at the pc-ness of his comment even as he's saying it.
 
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