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I'm still interspersedly watching DS9 season 7, which is really almost more crack-addled than anything Chris Carter ever came up with. I mean, this season gives us "Chimera," the big gay crazy Odo episode, and I don't think I ever even NOTICED how insanely gay it was because when I initially watched the season I can only assume I was distracted and confused by ALL THE CRACK. To wit:



Observe the soap opera worthy crackiness, whereat at this point in the series it can be recapped thusly: Odo has a big gay affair with a male changeling vagabond, and has sex with said changeling several times, while being condoned in his actions by his new girlfriend Kira, who Odo finally got the courage to ask out after Vic the hologram created a holographic Kira for Odo to practice on. Which is fine, because at this point Kira is busily getting over having given birth to the O'Brien's baby and breaking up with Shakaar, so it makes sense she'd have a season of heavy changeling sex with Odo who learned it all from the hot changeling sex he had with Ma Changeling last season, combined with the hot humanoid sex he had with Ms. Bedroom Eyes.

Meanwhile, Julian, who it turns out was genetically engineered in his childhood, is falling in love with Ezri Dax, the latest incarnation of Jadzia Dax, who married Worf but got killed by a Pah-Wraith possessed Gul Dukat before she could have Worf's baby. Ezri returned and tried to rekindle her tryst with Worf, but shouted out Julian's name in her sleep and the rest unfolded as it does in those situations.

Dukat, of course, didn't mean to kill Jadzia, but only did so because he also found himself reborn as the leader of a Bajoran cult, and so he underwent plastic surgery to look Bajoran and started up a marriage of eeevil with Kai Winn Adami, who also learned she'd been bidden to do the work of the Pah-Wraiths. Fortunately for us, the Emissary of the Prophets stands ready to challenge the forces of eeevil, except for the fact that the Prophets told him not to marry his Maquis-aiding freighter captain girlfriend Kasidy, and Sisko went ahead and did it anyway.

I seriously think everyone on this show is having sex at the moment. Has there ever been a season of any OTHER Star Trek with so much soap operatude? I mean, could you imagine a season where Picard was taking up with Crusher after having a short fling with Deanna, who rebounded in Data's arms but then married Geordi, and Riker gets killed and reincarnated as a woman who has a hot lesbian affair with Vash, who has returned with Q powers to conquer the universe? Meanwhile, Worf and Wesley Crusher finally admitted their deep and abiding love and, with the help of Dr. Barclay, were able to give birth to a child comprised of all three of their DNA. Her name, of course, is Lillianna.

Date: 2006-01-02 05:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] selenak.livejournal.com
Oh, DS9 definitely was unique among the Treks in this regard. Apropos Chimera and the gayness and interpretation of some, [livejournal.com profile] londonkds came up with a very dark interpretation, which continues to disturb me, though I really don't think that is what the writers intended. He also clarified with a
follow-up.

Date: 2006-01-02 05:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iamsab.livejournal.com
That is a dark way of looking at it -- I was much less queerly offended, though honestly the thing that struck me more than Quark's "Changeling Pride" line was Sisko's "it's okay behind closed doors, just not on the Promenade" speech. Which is less dark, but, you know, there's still a lot of don't ask/don't tell about that episode. What's important, of course, is that Kira accepted Odo's gayness, and more than that was willing to do whatever it took to love the man whatever shape he might choose to take.

(Though I have to agree with londonkds that it is highly dubious that Kira's never seen/played with Odo in anything other than humanoid form. I mean, the very MOMENT they first chose to have sex you'd think they'd immediately start exploring, especially considering Odo's had much more experience with Ma Changeling than he ever had with the bedroom-eyes girl, AND I think it's wildly out of character to think that Kira wouldn't want Odo to be himself around her. Dax's comments about Kira's xenophobia re: Capt. Boday's transparent skull excepted.)

I was also noting how unique Odo and Kira are as far as interspecies alien TV sex. I mean, sure, we've had Klingon/Human and Vulcan/Human and vague energy being/Human, but Kira and Odo had a real opportunity to explore the problems inherent with sex and intimacy between two totally different species. Sadly, Chimera's really the only episode that handles it at all -- too bad TPTB dropped the ball on that one. Fortunately there was a lot of good fanfic to make up for it back in the day.

Date: 2006-01-14 11:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] londonkds.livejournal.com
Not only is it out of character, but I'm fairly sure there's an episode before Chimera where we see Odo giving Kira a shoulder massage with his hands completely "melted" onto her.

In terms of human/alien sex, I agree that it's never really been dealt with in any TV show (I understand the Roeg/Bowie film The Man Who Fell To Earth does something interesting with the idea, but I've never actually seen it) but I suspect that until very recently the taste/decency standards would have made it impossible. Another problem, which I've seen in a couple of LJ friends' reactions to sexually explicit Odo/Kira fics, is that some people see any story about human women mating with aliens as having overtones of degrading the woman - tentacle rape and suchlike.

Date: 2006-01-02 05:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iamsab.livejournal.com
Oh- also, without question the sparkly enveloping at the end was sex, if for no other reason than it had all the hallmarks of Trek-produced TV sex, it was shot like a sex scene, and Kira's expressions were definitely the sort where she was directed to "look like you're enjoying yourself, but keep it G-rated so we can get it past the censors." That and there's nothing vague about the Link being sex, they've said it flat out on a number of occasions, and in this case Odo and Kira set out to very decidedly "Link."

Date: 2006-01-02 06:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] selenak.livejournal.com
Agreed. It never struck me as anything else, and that's why it impressed me as a great example of interspecies love going for a truly alien aspect.

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