To Taboo for you???

[Sector 7]

I've been saying this for a while now. I'd much rather see a gay relationship that is taken for granted as normal or average, instead of being treated as an episode of the week.

 

[Captain X]

I've been trying to think of a way to do that for my own writing, but I can't really think of anything that would acknowledge it without drawing excessive attention to it at the same time. What would be a good way of doing that?

 

[PhoenixIreland]

I've been trying to think of a way to do that for my own writing, but I can't really think of anything that would acknowledge it without drawing excessive attention to it at the same time. What would be a good way of doing that?

I'd like to see it written as a sub plot of a main episode, and in the sub plot it's seen as a normal relationship, once you look at it that way you can have any of a dozen relationship stories, even mix it with the main plot to that one of the two people is injured or killed and you show the love/concern of the other one for them.

 

[Sector 7]

I've been trying to think of a way to do that for my own writing, but I can't really think of anything that would acknowledge it without drawing excessive attention to it at the same time. What would be a good way of doing that?

My thought would be to show couples in the arboretum being romantic. (There IS a difference between romance and sex, although modern television appears to have forgotten this.)
Also, I've always thought that showing the various couples in quarters talking about their day (or current events/crises) displays how what we see onscreen affects the families aboard ship. This can be done with hetero/gay/whatever family units.
I think this was accomplished to some degree by the O'Brien and Worf families.

 

[ria 75]

Conversation is enough. No need for too much drama. No need to confine it to private quarters, either. (Harmless) gossip makes for funny scenes. A lot a of favourite scenes mentioned around here are about the dialogue, especially, funny dialogue.

 

[Kemaiku]

I've been trying to think of a way to do that for my own writing, but I can't really think of anything that would acknowledge it without drawing excessive attention to it at the same time. What would be a good way of doing that?

Did you read my story over at SCN a couple of years back? I had a b-plot going throughout that didn't take up too much of the story with a relationship between two same-sex officers. I remember it getting quite a few compliments for how it was handled, if its still up in the writing forum feel free to have a dig through it.

 

[erastus25]

They never do physical rape. Only the mind-rape stuff in one TNG episode (Violations?).

 

[WillsBabe]

They never do physical rape. Only the mind-rape stuff in one TNG episode (Violations?).

Or male rape. Again, unless you count Violations.

On the subject of physical rape, I wonder what happened to Uhura in that cell in Gamsters when the man (I forget his name) goes into her cell and she screams. Over the years I've wondered how far EvilKirk's attack on Janice Rand went in Enemy Within.

 

[Pahwraith]

AIDs. Beverly Crusher asked Berlinghoff Rasmussen if a certain disease had been cured by his time, but it wasn't AIDs. I'm assuming it has by the 24th century, but no one EVER mentions it.

 

[Brian]

^ David Gerrold wrote a TNG script which was to be an AIDS allegory ("Blood and Fire", which uses Regulan Blood Worms as a stand-in for HIV), and would also have featured the first "no big deal" same-sex couple in Star Trek. But Gene Roddenberry grew ill and those left in charge didn't want to touch it. David turned it into a book in his Tales of the Star Wolf trilogy (which I recommend!). Now it's being produced as an episode of Star Trek: Phase II... http://startreknewvoyages.com/news20080916.html