MAKE IT SO

[Shana A]

Saturday, November 06, 2010
MAKE IT SO
robbi cohn

http://trickster108.blogspot.com/2010/11/make-it-so.html

I had forgotten about this show, entitled, "The Outcast". It's about a race of androgynous aliens who need Captain Picard and the rest of the Enterprise crew to solve a space conundrum. In the pursuit of solving this mystery, Commander Riker and one of the aliens, named Soren, are thrown together into what develops into a most unusual yet prescient situation.

The denizens of Genia (interesting, given that this show revolves around gender issues) have evidently, according to Soren, evolved past a gender binary and are now essentially androgynous. It turns out that Soren is a "throwback" to days when gender WAS binary and she identifies as female. Of course, she and Riker develop a mutual attraction and therein lies the problem and the plot. Not only have the Genians evolved past gender binary, but it's now taboo to exhibit pre-androgyny behavior.

[spacial]

And then there's that chorus telling us we can be...and should be... cured. What a load of crap.

To be fair, some of can be cured.

The cure, for some of us is called SRS.

Simples.

(But I will always support my brothers and sisters who continue to think differently)

[rejennyrated]

From my perspective you gotta love the strangely appropriate choice of name for these creatures.

By an alternative spelling of the same pronunciation they would be Jennia! - Somehow a race of intersexed beings one of whom identifies as female always spoke rather deeply to me. I wonder why?