Preston von GabbleduckMar 17

"You can't have gay Klingons!", shout the dumberatti from the sidelines, having never realised that Star Trek was always a show about wokeness.

Huh? Huh? You want to say that a warrior culture would repress homosexuality when our own history shows us that warrior cultures in our past embraced it?

How about this take on one of our favourite fictional races: maybe to a Klingon, it would be an act entirely without honour to deny someone the right to become a fully fledged member of their society, just based on who and how they loved.

Maybe in Klingon society anyone who discriminates against someone just because they're gay is likely to get ostracised or challenged to a duel to the death.

Maybe Klingons believe that who you love doesn't change whether you can fight or not, and they'd look at human history of discrimination against LGBTI folk as one of the worst forms of dishonour imaginable.

#StarTrek #Klingon #LGBTIQ

Show threadDressToKILTMar 18

@backupbear Klingon society is a might-makes-right meritocracy that embraces a very odd mix of chivalric romance and public lust. They don't have the same shame about sex as many (but certainly not all) human cultures have. Klingons have never been shown to enforce heteronormativity or even rigid gender roles aside from inheritance issues.

Anyway, here's a pic of Robert O'Reilly and JG Hertzler wielding rainbow bat'leths.

Show threadBenderIsGreat34Mar 18
@dresstokilt @Binder @backupbear Wasn’t there a great scene in DS9 where a Klingon comes onboard and meets up with his old friend Dax, uses “he”, and Dax says “I’m a female now” or something, and the Klingon immediately switches to calling her “her” barely skipping a beat? It was way better than that but that’s all I can remember. Way ahead of its time and way more mature than society is now. Bah.
Show threadDressToKILTMar 18

@andymoose @Binder @backupbear yes! "Curzon, my beloved old friend!" "I'm Jadzia now." "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!" That was Kor, from TOS.

This show has aged SO WELL.

Show threadDressToKILT
@andymoose @Binder @backupbear I mean there's also this:
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