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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] An almost off-topic comment here: While the situation with canon Trek may be what it may be, the modern novels certainly have their share of homosexual relationships. Four recent examples highlight the different ways to do it: 1) The "DS9 Relaunch" series features odd sexual arrangements of alien lifeforms as a plot point. And NOT as an allegory to anything human. It's just scifi, and the relevancy here is that the concept of weird sex is deprived of any "titillation value". It's not done in order to have sex scenes as such. Which is a message in itself. 2) The "SCE" series has a male character aboard a ship, in correspondence with a male partner at the port. The relationship is somewhat "up on your face" to the reader, in the sense that a heterosexual relationship would not receive so much attention in a book. From the point of view of the characters, though, this relationship is highly "normal", which is a typical heavyhanded Trek message. The language used is also a bit awkward, with expressions like "partner" used a lot in character speech. It does depend on who's writing the SCE entry in question, though. 3) "The Sundered" features a human guest character who has two mothers (and presumably no father). The reader may miss this if he or she blinks, but it offers extra color to the story tapestry. The story would be less rich without the addition. 4) "Serpents Among the Ruins" features a female Romulan character who has a son and a female lover. The reader WILL miss this even if he or she doesn't blink - it all hangs on a single gender-specific pronoun on a single page (and no, this is not a typo, sez the author). This is stylistically the most intriguing way to do it. The reader is left to wonder about the details of the arrangement, but the book is so full of such subtlety that there are a thousand other things to wonder about. (And just to clarify, the Romulan character in question is a protagonist, not a devious pervert bitch who gets comeuppance at the end. *That's* a different Romulan character altogether. :p ) We're left waiting for (and dreading) how Peter David will handle it. I mean, he has sexual innuendo dripping even from his technobabble, but when he's unleashed with the instructions of inserting a homosexuality message... :eek: I do wonder if there are explicit writer instructions to that end, or if it is just a voluntary fashion statement of some sort. There are other strange commonalities between recent books, too. Marco Palmieri would be quick to denounce any top-level decrees, of course... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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