Klingons are amazing. Another example:
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I also really appreciated Worf and Martok's take on Garak's struggles with claustrophobia
Martok: There is no greater enemy than one's own fears.
Worf: It takes a brave man to face them.
NOOO BUT SHE ISN'T TRANS SHE'S A TRILL WHICH IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT'S STILL DAX JUST FROM.....
- Real people who don't understand symbolism.
I don't think the writers intended the Trill to be a an allegory for being trans. It was probably just supposed to be a cool sci fi stand in for being different. You can only show current, real life discrimination being non existent in the Federation in so many ways before you have to make up new things.
But it also doesn't change anything. Trans allegory or not, it's yet another instance showing how Star Fleet and the Federation value everybody, no matter if they're different or how they're different. Fuck the transphobes.
There's that DS9 episode where Jadzia risks exile from Trill society to revisit an old relationship, and, if not necessarily trans, it reads pretty obviously as a queer allegory.
Oh, queer, sure. Star Trek has had plenty of queer relationships; she wasn't the first. Trans is a whole different thing, though; queer is who you're attracted to; trans is a self-identity topic. Trans says nothing about who you're attracted to; you can be a gay trans person, a hetero trans person, a bi or asexual trans person. Trans(sexual) is about what plumbing you feel you should have, not whether you're hetero or homo.
Sisko still calls her Old Man though. Somewhat ironically, but consistently.
Yeah, but less in a pronoun sense and more in a nickname. She never asked him to stop, if she did I'm guessing he would have stopped immediately
A term of endearment they share, not seen as an insult, and all the more silly that the Dax symbiote is now hosted by a body younger than Sisko. It works well.
Our gods are dead. Ancient Klingon warriors slew them a millennia ago. They were... more trouble than they were worth.
Maybe just one of the many reasons Klingon's often seem ridiculously awesome. When you reject ancient gods because they were "troublesome" you're choosing to build a world where the world having no meaning becomes liberating instead of suffocating.
No wonder things like this are so easy for them to understand. No religious baggage!