Will Saru ever get a romance?

[Guy Gardener]

It's really simple:
"The problem with that is that he is already supposed to be dead." - Nope, that was the Ba'ul lie.
"Saru reached the end of the Kelpien life cycle, and kept going." - Nope, the Kelpien life cycle naturally goes beyond Vahar'ai, which was never the end of their life cyle.

Saru was supposed to be ritually murdered before he thought he would die of natural causes painfully.

He wasn't.

That Baul lie is apparant reality.

They have been lied to about their life cycle.

We are regurgitating the same facts.

What Saru believed was his life cycle was his life cycle. It's what all the biology text books at his high school told him.

Until he found out it was a lie, he thought it was true, so it was true until proved otherwise.

He reached what he thought was the end of his life cycle and asked to be murdered.

He should have been dead, because Michael should have killed him.

Was it Michael?

Michael, or who ever didn't use that pretty knife on him, so he didn't die from a knife. Not natural causes. From a knife.

He didn't die of natural causes and he didn't die of knife.

The first Kelpien in over 700 hundred years to live past puberty.

The life cycle is redefined.

New information

Maybe no one else should unnessaryily murder their relatives either moving forward.

 

[Nyotarules]

I'm assuming that if the writers of Star Trek Discovery think that Saru should have a romance. They will write a story of Discovery have to go to Saru home world for some reason, or have a female of Saru people visit Discovery.

Why should he only pick another Kelpian, its the 32nd century, inter species relationships should be as normal as breathing

 

[F. King Daniel]

It's really only asexual representation if they actually establish it somehow in conversation though, isn't it?

*watches Hugh smooch Paul*

"There's not gay unless they say the word!"

 

[Court_Vince]

Well, in the case of asexual representation I'd rather they say the word personally, since it introduces ppl to asexuality and can also help ppl in finding characters they identify with and maybe even use the label themselves.
But coding is thing and ace ppl can pick up on if a character shows no sexual attraction to any1. But in Trek's case I'd really wish they stop making all their non-human characters the ones who happen to be ace.

 

[NCC-73515]

*watches Hugh smooch Paul*

"There's not gay unless they say the word!"

How do you distinguish asexuality from not having a lot of sex all the time without addressing it?

 

[NCC-73515]

He seems to be interested (though maybe not romantically) in

Spoiler

the Ni'Var president

 

[F. King Daniel]

Well, in the case of asexual representation I'd rather they say the word personally, since it introduces ppl to asexuality and can also help ppl in finding characters they identify with and maybe even use the label themselves.
But coding is thing and ace ppl can pick up on if a character shows no sexual attraction to any1. But in Trek's case I'd really wish they stop making all their non-human characters the ones who happen to be ace.

How do you distinguish asexuality from not having a lot of sex all the time without addressing it?

I guess you're right. It's harder to depict in TV without people thinking they just haven't had a romance storyline yet. So I guess you have to make a point of it.

Weird that Bojack Horseman has better asexual representation than Star Trek.

 

[Court_Vince]

Weird that Bojack Horseman has better asexual representation than Star Trek.

Weird and Sad especially given that many ace ppl often relate to plenty of trek characters

 

[Tim Thomason]

He seems to be interested (though maybe not romantically) in

Spoiler

the Ni'Var president

Yeah, Saru and T'Rina seem to be a thing. Nice on the show for promoting it.

 

[Vger23]

I’m pretty cool with “nope”

 

[The Wormhole]

Weird that Bojack Horseman has better asexual representation than Star Trek.

Meh, Star Trek's supposed diversity is very overstated.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I guess you're right. It's harder to depict in TV without people thinking they just haven't had a romance storyline yet. So I guess you have to make a point of it.

Weird that Bojack Horseman has better asexual representation than Star Trek.

The lack of sex on Star Trek is uniform.

Either none of these spacemen have game, or almost all of them are asexual.

Read a grim novel where the government was testing for a low sex drive with their astronauts.

The horny applicants getting action were recycled.

 

[Ketrick]

He seems to be interested (though maybe not romantically) in

Spoiler

the Ni'Var president

Yeah, Saru and T'Rina seem to be a thing. Nice on the show for promoting it.

I'm glad I am not the only one who noticed chemistry between them. I was beginning to wonder if I was imagining things.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

He seems to be interested (though maybe not romantically) in

Spoiler

the Ni'Var president

That thought traipsed across my mind as well. Definitely a mutual respect and maybe even genuine like.

 

[Yistaan]

The lack of sex on Star Trek is uniform.

It's the holodecks. The characters all deal with their hormones there offscreen to ensure they're ice cold professional elsewhere.

 

[eschaton]

I hate to say it, but during Berman Trek I think they just threw in random romances in order to stop anyone from presuming random character with a heretofore absent love life was gay.

They absolutely did that with Reed on Enterprise.

 

[XCV330]

Why should he only pick another Kelpian, its the 32nd century, inter species relationships should be as normal as breathing

I don't think they should be. While the UFP provides an overarching culture for persons to be normalized into so that there can be some kind of normalized framework for a relationship, the specific needs of each species are going to be very great. While there have been a couple of human-vulcan relationships, those are going to be extremely difficult, for instance. And what about all the fights over the thermostat between Andorians and.. well, anyone else?

 

[NCC-73515]

I hate to say it, but during Berman Trek I think they just threw in random romances in order to stop anyone from presuming random character with a heretofore absent love life was gay.

They absolutely did that with Reed on Enterprise.

Reed was initially supposed to be gay

 

[Guy Gardener]

"T'Pol has a nice bottom"

Reed, ShuttlePod One.

So?

Had they changed their mind by that point, or was that a gay man struggling to stay in the closet?

 

[fireproof78]

I guess it's just me but I assume that people who are not in romantic relationships...don't want to be in romantic relationships.