Changeling is the nigger of the universe.
Especially ironic since in the book "a stitch in time" which is a book about Garak Robinson himself wrote, Garak is pretty unambiguously straight, as in he has a lost female love on Cardassia.
The Cardassians are such a warrior race that I could imagine a Greco-Roman, totally not gay, man to man fucking going on. I'd argue the "omnisexual" angle isn't truly something "alien" because that kind of behaviour has been observed in many human cultures (although that's a general criticism of Star Trek aliens, they're all too human).
DS9 also had the lesbian episode for "rejoined," the episode where Dax is reunited with her wife from a past host. Pretty good episode tbh, really went well with the whole "transcension beyond the physical" theme that ran throughout much of StarTrek and especially DS9.
They did that with the Borg in their original appearance, remember?
And that was one of my favourite things about the original Borg! It was one of the many things which made them appear so inhuman and terrifying. However the utilitarianism of the Borgs was to serve a purpose similar to cells, they held no individuality or culture.
The problem with this line of thought is that DS9 says female Cardassians are pretty much the brains behind their whole race. I believe it was the same episode with the Cardie who wanted O'Brien's Big Irish Dong where the women say that as far as engineering and sciences go, women dominate the field and men are big old dummies who like fighting and petty politics. So if anything, you'd have it the other way around with female Cardassians choosing to keep a couple of sperm donors around and making most men obsolete since they actually know how the science behind that works. And even then, I don't see that happening. There's very little proof in DS9 showing us that in a Cardassian society men and women aren't equal. They're hardasses who flirt by bantering and arguing which make them seem more agressive than they really are (though ofc they are agressive once you really need to fight them). If the military has fewer women, then it's because they saw the obvious problem of putting their childbearers AND brains in situations where they can easily die. And Cardassians being a warrior race isn't really true for most of their history since they only became so because of desperate times (in this case, famine). Gul Madred remembered starving as a child which might suggest a hightened military presence and a culture of war and conquest was a fairly new thing on Cardassia. At least 50 years, probably less than 100, if we're saying it didn't happen all over the planet at the same time.
I was mostly just throwing a hypothetical, what if the Cardassians didn't have any females. There were Cardie women as far back as TNG. My point was mostly just that it would be an interesting idea for an alien race, and they could've done it with the Cardassians.
According to standard rules of Trek canon, if it's not onscreen, it doesn't count.
He kind of looked like Liberace (and also Herman Goering, for that matter).
I'd argue that the current conception of "Greco-Roman, totally not gay, man to man fucking" is the result of an unhealthy amount of confirmation bias on the part of certain, shall we say, personally interested scholars.
In defiance, if memory serves, of one of the explicit (and quite sensible), established rules for Joined Trills, that being "no hooking up with the significant others of previous hosts."
That's kind of the point of the Mirror Universe, though: everyone in it is either an oppressed peon or an extreme, Caligula-level degenerate.
That was an episode of Lexx. Sorta. NSFW
I don't know man, from what I've seen from primary sources, it's pretty clear that sex with men/adolecents wasn't taboo. Greco-Romans looked at sex as giver/reciever relationship rather than exclusively male/female. Germans and Hebrews, however, were very strictly male/female. So when Christian Germans conquered Rome, they tossed out most of the homo shit.
It was one of those "forbidden love" episodes, and it was doubly so because they were scissoring. It ended with them breaking it off though.
You know what, TOS probably would've made it a colony of nuns that ends up turning to shit when Kirk's cock bursts out of his girdle by accident. Maybe a few nuns see Spock, and he finds himself in a love triangle that he doesn't know he's participating in.
From what I've seen, primary sources have been interpreted pretty creatively for a long time now, and/or just plain sloppily, such as not necessarily accounting for changes in Hellenic culture over time. It's been compared to a future historian presenting 21st century and 19th century San Francisco as interchangeable in terms of social norms and attitudes.
And contributing to 8chan's popular "Dax is a slut" meme.
Fair enough. I do recall reading several Classical philosophers'/statesmen condemnation of homsexuality and other non-reproductive forms of sexual interaction. I would agree that it's unfair to characterize an entire civilization's sexual practises based on saucy potter/paintings found in brothels. It would be similar to a 41st century history professor finding BDSM gear and an inflationist's deviantart page and extrapolating that data onto all of society.
Dax is fucking insufferable. Worf's a good guy, but her Klingon fetish is the equivalent to when a Valley Girl goes to the Caribbean and comes back with dreadlocks, reeking of weed, and Rasta boyfriend named Winston.
iirc it's a little weirder, Old Man Dax was a hardcore party guy and diplomat so he worked well with Klingons, and Becker Dax just kept partying and now it wasn't so gay to go for ridged dong. But yeah Dax seemed to have slutted it up in a few hosts.
Lexx was such a special kind of late-night weirdness.
