Watching the Outcast back in the 1990s must have been very different from watching it today.
The story follows Commander Will Riker as he falls in love with an alien who, while having biologically female leanings, belongs to a society intolerant of gender specific attributes.
In its own time, the story was a thinly veiled endorsement of gay rights and a denunciation of sexual orientation conversion therapy.
However, watching it in the 21st century, hearing dialogue that speaks of gender being biological, the episode now sounds like an attack on transgender ideology and gender reassignment therapy.
They say Revolutions eat their own Children. It will be interesting to see if this episode becomes anathema over its talk of male and female being biologically based and efforts to change that being harmful.
The story follows Commander Will Riker as he falls in love with an alien who, while having biologically female leanings, belongs to a society intolerant of gender specific attributes.
In its own time, the story was a thinly veiled endorsement of gay rights and a denunciation of sexual orientation conversion therapy.
However, watching it in the 21st century, hearing dialogue that speaks of gender being biological, the episode now sounds like an attack on transgender ideology and gender reassignment therapy.
They say Revolutions eat their own Children. It will be interesting to see if this episode becomes anathema over its talk of male and female being biologically based and efforts to change that being harmful.