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The video is from a STNG episode which had Ryker falling for an androgenous person from another world who's civilization frowns on having only one gender... in fact, they consider it a crime and they have a "cure" for the perverse members of their civilization who commit the crime of having tendencies of being only one gender.
The defense speech given by Soren, the love interest of Ryker, could be delivered by any one of us, whether we're TG, TS, CD, TV, IS, or whatever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXwWwaBMxK8
Watch, listen, and tell me what YOU think.
Hugs and love,
Catherine Linda Michel
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That speech gave me the courage to live...
No hyperbole there. I watched that episode for the first time with my sister and I cried most of the way through it. I can't say that was the turning point for me, but it was certainly a very significant one of many things.
Um, it would probably help to know that I had a serious crush on Jonathan Frakes. Hey, I was like 13 and the only hotter guy was Patrick Stewart.
Abby
I remember that speech well
It really could have come from any of us.
I'm trying to remember how I reacted to that, but I don't remember much other than feeling that Soren's speech was right. Of course, if I saw it when it first aired, in 1992, it would be another three years before I admitted to myself that I enjoyed wearing women's clothes, let alone that I am female. I was still repressing back then. lol
Lisa
ST Franchise
Since the original series, Star Trek has often been used as a 'future mirror' to reflect and discuss moral issues of our times. This is especially true of ST:TNG and ST:DS9. Both shows often became laborous in their attempts to deliver a message, at the expense of keeping their audience engaged.
I barely remember this episode, most likely from seeing it in syndication, as I tuned this series out early in the first season. To many ST:TOS fans, ST:TNG was and still is a weak repackaging that only ocassionally rose out of the muck. Grand, or should I say "grandiose" ideas that sold out the premise in favor of the message.
The idea is to entertain and engage the viewer, sliding your message in subtly. ST:TNG was about as subtle as a mud pie in the face, failing to either entertain or engage the viewer.
I went outside once. The graphics weren' that great.
I missed this one...
I'm guessing it was later in the series, as we watched the first several seasons as they were broadcast. (My older daughter was "brought up" on ST:TNG you might say... I can still remember the day she discovered that she couldn't go to Starfleet Academy once she graduated from High School. (Yes, as a grade schooler, she was thinking that far ahead.) She was devastated. She took Santa Clause & the Easter Bunny in stride, but learning she couldn't go to the academy really hurt.
Thanks for sharing this,
Annette
What! No Academy!??
Thanks for posting this Catherine. Wonderful message.
Uhmm . . . Omega Girl ... bad day?
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)