The new Homo Andoria?
Do you think LGBT characters will feature more prominently?
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I'm all for anything that annoys troglodytes.
I would really love a trans character on the show. It would be nice to have some representation on television that isn't a prisoner, reality show star or in a sensationalist documentary.
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Yes! I would love to see a transgender character feature prominently. A sign that the future is more open and welcoming to everyone, not just hetero-normative people.
The problem being that even 23rd century technology would allow much more rapid reassignment surgery. And they'd be able to transition much earlier, probably before leaving for the Academy.
Having one of the command staff have a child who is going through it back on Earth while they're out serving in the unknown would work though.
Having one of the command staff have a child who is going through it back on Earth while they're out serving in the unknown would work though.
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That could, yes. I'm also including people who choose to eschew the gender binary. I believe that a woman can have what we see as traditionally male genitalia, and vice versa. The idea is that by the 23rd/24th century, we've stopped seeing gender as a binary thing.
Gender fluidity is only really starting to be a topic on TV, I think they're playing catchup enough as it is with the more basic LGBT depictions other shows have beaten them to by years.
The recent spoiler of the new movie is encouraging that they want to show a gay family in a positive light, and the show runners want more inclusion, but we have to see what they can reasonably fit into a 13 episode run with an arc to cover too.
Trans and gender fluid are still very uncomfortable subjects for some audiences too, if they want people to cough up £6 a month to watch one show, on US TV for that matter, there's not as much they can do.
The recent spoiler of the new movie is encouraging that they want to show a gay family in a positive light, and the show runners want more inclusion, but we have to see what they can reasonably fit into a 13 episode run with an arc to cover too.
Trans and gender fluid are still very uncomfortable subjects for some audiences too, if they want people to cough up £6 a month to watch one show, on US TV for that matter, there's not as much they can do.
Given that it seems to have some connection to structures in the brain, they could probably identify it at birth and just let the parents know. It would carry the same weight as needing glasses. Let the kid be raised as the gender they identify with, which is starting to happen now. By then it should be the standard.
Maybe the sexual reassignment is so easy, that it's just a matter of toggling transporter settings?
If that was the case, we could have a character that hasn't made up his AND her mind about sticking to one gender, and they wouldn't even need more permission from their parents than I ever needed by my mom to get a temporary tattoo, to idly switch back and forth, back and forth.
If that was the case, we could have a character that hasn't made up his AND her mind about sticking to one gender, and they wouldn't even need more permission from their parents than I ever needed by my mom to get a temporary tattoo, to idly switch back and forth, back and forth.
Actually, I'd see it more as still being surgery but using stem cells taken at birth to genetically grow any tissue needed. Polaski said they could fix a broken neck, time consuming but doable, replacing spines was relatively new. So this could be done in a matter of weeks giving time for each procedure to take.
Genetic changes could also be applied by then, having new cells divide by a modified chromosonal replacement for pair 23.
Probably all before puberty, letting that process reinforce the surgical alterations in a more natural way.
Genetic changes could also be applied by then, having new cells divide by a modified chromosonal replacement for pair 23.
Probably all before puberty, letting that process reinforce the surgical alterations in a more natural way.
OOO.
You hit the curb son.
Meddling with genetics, is Eugenics.
That's a no-no.
Highly illegal.
Yes, augmenting sexual reassignment with "safe" genetic modification seems benign, but last time someone took a fall down that slippery slope, 30 million people died, and started a new Dark Age.
You hit the curb son.
Meddling with genetics, is Eugenics.
That's a no-no.
Highly illegal.
Yes, augmenting sexual reassignment with "safe" genetic modification seems benign, but last time someone took a fall down that slippery slope, 30 million people died, and started a new Dark Age.
There's probably a line between removing anything that would negatively affect the child and actually creating genetic supermen. We're probably just a few decades from that.
Star Trek should be our future, not the future of the 1960s. They shouldn't limit the tech of the show because it doesn't fit in with what people thought computers would be like decades ago. If anything there should be more AIs and robots, we seem to be heading in that direction.
The entire avenue of science is forbidden, unless your name is Katherine Pulaski. Earth's government is not only worried about supermen, it's terrified of unforeseen consequences like mental illness and new congenital diseases, or death if they get their math a little bit wrong.
Altering the genome, making it even different, not better, just different, alters the nature and configuration of their potential offspring.
Archer's dad Hank was batshit from a genetic disease they knew all about when he was just a boy, but it was illegal to cure him, which wasn't that hard to do, and it was illegal to avert passing on advanced mental illness and senility to Jonathan Archer from Henry Archer because humanity is gunshy still from Khan redesigning man under threat of death.
Altering the genome, making it even different, not better, just different, alters the nature and configuration of their potential offspring.
Archer's dad Hank was batshit from a genetic disease they knew all about when he was just a boy, but it was illegal to cure him, which wasn't that hard to do, and it was illegal to avert passing on advanced mental illness and senility to Jonathan Archer from Henry Archer because humanity is gunshy still from Khan redesigning man under threat of death.
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A therapy to make the XY change to XX, or XX change to XY for a transgender patient, is really nowhere near "altering the genome". What does that even mean, I'm not suggesting a change to the whole human race, but a targeted prodecure on one person.
Not at all comparable.
Not at all comparable.
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