DS9 is pretty much the only place I do care about Worf, and it's only Worf, not Klingons in general. Okay, I like Martok a little bit, too. Oh wait (heh, literally remembering these things as I type), I guess I like B'Elanna on Voyager as well, though she's just half-Klingon. Yet I didn't care about Worf on TNG, and Klingon-focused plots mostly just bore me. So, uh, those are my stream-of-consciousness thoughts on Klingons. :)
Interesting perspective on "Rejoined" -- that if it's meant as an allegory, as it likely is, it fails, and maybe kind of accidentally works because of that failure. I always thought that taken on its own, it's a good episode, and a natural story to tell in exploring what it's like to be a joined Trill. But I could sympathize with the accusation that it's a cheat to only take on sexual orientation when it's framed in sci-fi terms, and that it doesn't excuse Trek from ignoring LGBT characters otherwise. I think that has been a shameful omission, and I look at "Rejoined" as a good story that's unfortunately tinged by that context.
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Date: 2010-07-14 01:28 am (UTC)Interesting perspective on "Rejoined" -- that if it's meant as an allegory, as it likely is, it fails, and maybe kind of accidentally works because of that failure. I always thought that taken on its own, it's a good episode, and a natural story to tell in exploring what it's like to be a joined Trill. But I could sympathize with the accusation that it's a cheat to only take on sexual orientation when it's framed in sci-fi terms, and that it doesn't excuse Trek from ignoring LGBT characters otherwise. I think that has been a shameful omission, and I look at "Rejoined" as a good story that's unfortunately tinged by that context.