Prompts: Star Trek through Stardust
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Star Trek through Stardust
2876. Star Trek, Any, Genetic engineering is illegal in the Federation, gender reassignment is one of the few exceptions to this law
2877. Star Trek, any female character, why this is a good time in Earth's history to be a lesbian. claimed by katemonkey
2878. Star Trek, Joanna McCoy, Joanna's lesbian, and she really doesn't care what her father thinks
2879. Star Trek, reboot!Uhura/TOS!Uhura, There's only one person Uhura can share her secret with without risking her entire career. claimed by jouissant
2880. Star Trek (any era), Any human character, Most people on Earth don't see the point in identifying as a sexual orientation anymore, since the gender of one's partners is socially irrelevant. What might make a character still choose to embrace an lesbian/gay/bisexual identity
2881. Star Trek (any series), any characters, The experiences of transgendered Starfleet crew members of various species; Andorians, Tellarites, Vulcans, etc.
2882. Star Trek (any series), any characters, Andorians have four sexes. How does this affect what it means for them to be LGBT?
2883. Star Trek (any series), any femslash pairing, an exploration of what it means to be out, closeted, or both within the ST universe
2884. Star Trek (any series), The Federation requires a treatment to 'correct' LGBT sexualities before a person can serve in Star Fleet. How one LGBT crew member gets around this rule, and why.
2885. Star Trek (any version), any characters, Starfleet is military, right? But surely by 2255 DADT is gone. ...Right?
2886. Star Trek (any), any character, At Betazoid weddings, the bride and groom, and all the guests are naked. Someone sees completely unexpected genitals on someone they know.
2887. Star Trek (any), any characters, A group of queer/trans Starfleet officers encounter a culture that is some form of LGBTQIA+ majority. Instead of this being a symbol of how Strange and Inhuman and Other they are, it's a reassuring and familiar sight. :)
2888. Star Trek (any), It's first contact with a technically advanced planet that uses most of their tech for fun and emotional enlightenment. This seems fine, until the trade leader/other people they met with changes genders overnight to show what the tech can do. With people constantly changing their physical appearance as easily and thoughtlessly as other people change clothes, the crew is forced to think *thoughts*.
2889. Star Trek IV, Gillian Taylor, the best part of coming into the 23rd century and joining Starfleet is that Gillian can fully express her sexuality no matter where she lives.
2890. Star Trek TOS or XI, any characters, the Enterprise Sexuality Support/Social Group always has the best parties, but the prep can be nerve-wracking...
2891. Star Trek TOS or XI, Leonard McCoy and Joanna McCoy, They've always thought it was unfair that Jocelyn got custody of Joanna just because Leonard was gay; after all, he's the parent who let Joanna be herself instead of insisting that she is really his son.
2892. Star Trek TOS or XI, Sarek, If Spock assumes his parents are both 100% heterosexual just because they married each other, Sarek isn't sure he should enlighten his son. Especially not when he's encouraging Spock to be a traditional Vulcan who marries the girl picked out for him in childhood and goes to the Vulcan Science Academy. But occasionally, he wonders if it might help Spock to know that even some full-blooded Vulcans often don't fit into traditional Vulcan molds, and they manage all right. (Quite a lot of Vulcans, actually, as Sarek learned in his youth. They're just discreet about it.) claimed by cmdr_spock
2893. Star Trek TOS or XI, Spock/Leonard McCoy, How Leonard McCoy has escaped Star Fleets 'no homosexuals' clause for over 25 years.
2894. Star Trek XI, Jim Kirk/Leonard McCoy McCoy has reservations about a relationship with openly bisexual Jim--who says Jim's not going to up and leave him for some pretty girl?
2895. Star Trek XI, 'Cupcake', He's big, butch, bold, brave...and with medical confidentiality being what it is, no one outside Sickbay would ever realize he used to be a woman
2896. Star Trek XI, any, gender norms are still pretty prevalent on the 24th century Earth. Transition from male to female or vice versa is relatively well understood, but there's a not a lot of room between the two, even in deep space.
2897. Star Trek XI, any character, It's been a while since most people considered sexual orientation more than a personal quirk, but s/he feels that identifying as gay or lesbian is an important way of respecting history.
2898. Star Trek XI, any character, Just because most humans choose to conform to strict gender ideas about uniforms, doesn't mean there are no men on board the Enterprise who choose to wear the uniform dress.
2899. Star Trek XI, any characters, You've got the pants option and the miniskirt option for uniforms. You've also got aliens that don't conform to Earth stereotypes or prejudices. Cue bemusement on alien's part when humans think his/her choice of attire is because of his/her sexual orientation, when in fact they have nothing to do with each other.
2900. Star Trek XI, any Vulcan (including OCs), Mental compatibility has always been more important to Vulcans than gender, but Vulcans are also logical. Now that they need to rebuild their race, nothing is logical about same-sex bondings. claimed by igrockspock
2901. Star Trek XI, any Vulcan character, Homosexuality has always been frowned upon on Vulcan as being illogical. What happens to that situation when Vulcan is destroyed?
2902. Star Trek XI, any Vulcans living at the new colony, Before the destruction of Vulcan, one married to produce heirs and dealt with any other inclinations in whatever way one and one's bondmate deemed appropriate, discreetly. Now a demographic imbalance in the surviving population means that a statistically significant number of males will not be able to marry Vulcan women. Interspecies marriage is only one option. For the Vulcan women, there are not so many options.
2903. Star Trek XI, Chekov, He's confident enough to be mostly out about being bi, but he's far too shy to admit he wants to wear the uniform dress. Or any dress. Or just...not boy's clothes.
2904. Star Trek XI, Christine Chapel/Nyota Uhura, Chapel married Roger to hide her attraction to the same sex. But with her impending divorce and her deepening bond with Uhura can she continue to lie to herself?
2905. Star Trek XI, Gaila, Gaila is bisexual; she's not sure why people on Earth assume that's both common and accepted among Orions, because in her experience it's neither.
2906. Star Trek XI, Gaila, She's not a slave anymore. That means she gets to *choose*.
2907. Star Trek XI, Gaila/Uhura, Gaila gets sex, but not the human concept of sexual identity; Meanwhile, Uhura's queer identity is very important to her.
2908. Star Trek XI, James Kirk/Leonard McCoy, McCoy doesn't know how the kid has him not only in space (which he fears and loathes with equal passion), but wanting to have sex with a man, too.
2909. Star Trek XI, Jim Kirk, Jim has always liked women more than men. That doesn't mean he doesn't like men. Just that, in his experience, men are more likely to fuck you up.
2910. Star Trek XI, Jim Kirk, tough enough doing 2 years of the Academy in one. Try doing it with genetic and hormonal therapies as part of a gender transition to female.
2911. Star Trek XI, Jim Kirk(/Leonard McCoy), Jim's never given much thought to his sexual orientation, it's not like he's ever had an actual relationship, so what if he occasionally takes some hot guy up on his offer? But then he and Bones end up together, and as Captain he can't really go looking for anyone else, and Jim has to face facts: straight/gay/bi/whatever, Bones is it for him. And what does that mean?
2912. Star Trek XI, Jim Kirk/Leonard McCoy, For McCoy, losing his family because he couldn't hide his orientation anymore was hard enough, actually falling in love and building a relationship with his best friend is utterly terrifying.
2913. Star Trek XI, Jim Kirk/Spock When Starfleet gave him the Enterprise, they didn't know their golden boy preferred men. If they ever find out the real reason Jim wanted Spock for his First Officer, they'll be looking for any excuse to take Jim's ship away from him.
2914. Star Trek XI, Jim/Bones, Jim thought when Bones propositioned him that Bones knew he was trans/intersex--wouldn't something like that be in his medical file? But now that they've had a disasterous, mutually humiliating hook-up, can they put it behind them and still have the relationship they both want? Because the attraction isn't going anywhere.
2915. Star Trek XI, Keenser, Everyone thought ze was male until they realized se and Scotty were together, now they think ze is female. WTF is up with humans not realizing that Keenser is not human? claimed by super_keen
2916. Star Trek XI, Kirk, Even in a 'tolerant' society, humans at Starfleet Academy are supposed to pick one thing and stick with it. Jim Kirk thinks that's bullshit.
2917. Star Trek XI, Kirk, contrary to popular belief he doesn't bang everything that moves but he just might if he's good looking enough.
2918. Star Trek XI, Kirk/anyone, just because he enjoys sex doesn't mean he's not ace, not that his partner believes him.
2919. Star Trek XI, Kirk/McCoy, Kirk is scared to come out to McCoy, even as bisexual, because of all the shit he's gotten for it in the past
2920. Star Trek XI, Kirk/Spock, desperate to regain strength after the devastation to the fleet at the Battle of Vulcan, Starfleet introduces a policy inspired by the Sacred Band of Thebes that requires Captains and their First Officers to be in an intimate relationship. When the policy is repealed after a short time, why do Kirk and Spock find it difficult to break off their relationship? (The Sacred Band was made up of male couples, the rationale being that lovers could fight more fiercely and cohesively than strangers with no ardent bonds.) claimed by nahara
2921. Star Trek XI, Leonard McCoy, the real reason he divorced his wife and she can't stand him? A few years into their marriage, he realized he was fooling himself. He admitted to himself, and her, that he was gay. She didn't take it well and neither did his family. Enlisting in StarFleet helped him get away from that prejudice, but not everyone he meets at the Academy is accepting either
2922. Star Trek XI, Leonard McCoy(/Jim Kirk), It was Jocelyn for so long, and then the divorce, so until Jim stuck his hand down his pants, Len had never given much thought to other men. He would never have expected he liked being fucked so much, and he's not quite sure he's okay with that, no matter how much he likes it. claimed by old_blueeyes
2923. Star Trek XI, Leonard McCoy/(Jim Kirk), The real reason McCoy's marriage failed is that Jocelyn was a lesbian, and McCoy realized that while he was bi, he wasn't a woman. But between the divorce and finishing his transition, he'd never actually gotten to try out his new body with a partner - until Jim.
2924. Star Trek XI, Nyota Uhura, Uhura is proficient in 83% of official Federation languages and regional dialects, and more besides that, but she hasn't found pronouns that feel quite right. Until now.
2925. Star Trek XI, original crew member, They've heard all the horror stories about Doctor McCoy, so it's more than a little scary to go to him for SRS. As it turns out, they didn't need to worry about it at all. claimed by medie
2926. Star Trek XI, Pavel Chekov/Hikaru Sulu, Chekov is terrified of his boyfriend discovering that he was born intersex, and physically, still is, even if he identifies as male.
2927. Star Trek XI, Sarek, Pursuing an attraction to a male - human, Vulcan, or otherwise - is decidedly not the logical thing to do. So why can't Sarek stop contemplating it?
2928. Star Trek XI, Scotty, he's been alone for so long. Makes sexuality difficult. Coming onto the Enterprise opens a whole new world for him.
2929. Star Trek XI, Scotty/McCoy, Just because Scotty's into ships doesn't mean he hasn't got a thing for humans too... they just happen to be male.
2930. Star Trek XI, Spock, just how logical does Vulcan find identifying trans?
2931. Star Trek XI, Spock, Yes, he's kissed Uhura, but that doesn't make him straight
2932. Star Trek XI, Spock, When you were genetically engineered it's hard to convince your parents it's not their 'fault' you're queer. claimed by sunfell
2933. Star Trek XI, Spock, Spock finds opening up emotionally to be easier with members of the same sex. How does he reconcile his feelings for men with his feelings that he must help rebuild the Vulcan race?
2934. Star Trek XI, Spock and Leonard McCoy, Spock attends a medical conference with Bones where the discussion of repopulating Vulcan is a major theme. Spock explains sexual intercourse is not needed to carry on genetic material. Nor is the concept of cherishing both genders a foreign or illogical one. Bones remarks after the conference that Spock seemed to take the whole conversation awfully personally and he has a personal theory of his own about why because loving both genders isn't a foreign concept to 23rd century Earth either.
2935. Star Trek XI, Spock/Uhura/McCoy, Vulcans see bisexuality and polyamory as a logical occurrence but other parts of the Federation seem to disagree.
2936. Star Trek XI, Uhura, From ten seconds after she met Jim Kirk, she had him pegged as a manwhore/playboy. But she thought Kirk was the man who played with girls. Not that he did guys too. And finding this out, why is it such a shock to her to have her assumptions shattered in such a way
2937. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Any characters, When Keiko O'Brien almost lost her baby, Major Kira wasn't there to take it. Neither was any other woman. So Bashir has to go with plan b: a man. How does this man deal with what is, to his mind, something uniquely feminine?
2938. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, any Ferengi, being a trans woman in the extremely patriarchal Ferengi culture, which requires women to be naked almost always.
2939. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Dax (as in Dax itself, or bonded in any host), what is it like for a genderless being being bonded to so many people of different genders over the years and how does that affect its identities? The identity of those it is bonded to? Bonus points if one of Dax's hosts was trans themselves.
2940. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Elim Garak, On Cardassia, family was everything and men like Garak were considered deviants. As Tain's right-hand, Garak was too powerful to be accused of sodomy--but then he's exiled to DS9. Living among Federation citizens who accept homosexuality as perfectly natural, Garak is forced to examine his own internalised prejudices.
2941. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Elim Garak & or / Julian Bashir, Human and Cardassian concepts of sexuality don't quite mesh. spring_gloom
2942. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Ezri Dax, Ezri wasn't bisexual before being joined with the Dax symbiont, and now she has to adjust claimed by loneraven
2943. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Ezri Dax, there's a reason Ezri has zero desire to be joined: she thinks it's the work of a lifetime just figuring out her own identity.
2944. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Garak, on Cardassia it doesn't matter whether you're gay or straight -- you still get married to continue your family line. Garak learns that his pursuit of Ziyal is completely confusing to Bashir, and must find a way to explain to the human he loves that wanting to marry Ziyal in order to have a legitimate Cardassian family has nothing to do with his sexual orientation or who he actually loves.
2945. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Garak, With the Cardassians being a reptilic species who as such have for a long time handled trans issues in an almost casual way compared to mammals it is a strange thing for him to see mammalian humanoids try and deal with them, especially when he discovers one of the senior staff is struggling with such issues themselves. (Not Odo)
2946. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Jadzia Dax, the Trills' relationship with gender is ... complex. claimed by elishabet
2947. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Jadzia Dax, Dax isn't too fussed about the labels other people use to describe her sexuality.
2948. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Jadzia Dax/Lenara, What if Jadzia and Lenara had discovered that they *had* had real feelings for each other?
2949. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Julian Bashir, Starfleet has moved beyond bigotry, and homophobia has absolutely no relevance to the modern world... or so Julian had thought.
2950. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Julian Bashir, Julian expected to face prejudice over his genetically enhanced status, but not over his choice of partner.
2951. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Julian Bashir/Elim Garak, Julian's spent his entire life in the closet in more ways than one, now that he's been outed as genetically enhanced and he and his career have survived, does it give him the confidence to come out as queer? And how does his partner, Garak, feel about that?
2952. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Julian Bashir/Garak, Julian has always pursued women because he believes that his attractions to men are meaningless, arising from a 'mistake' in his genetic reprogramming. His feelings for Garak are making him question that assumption.
2953. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Kira, Seeing/hearing about her Mirror universe counterpart's sexual tendencies forces Kira to acknowledge parts of herself she never really had time to think about during the Occupation and has tried to avoid since then. claimed by hathy_col
2954. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Kira Nerys, Nerys was a rough-and-tumble, scrappy little boy. That didn't stop her from wanting to be a girl.
2955. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Kira/Jadzia Dax, Jadzia fails to see why it's so difficult for Kira to act on her almost embarrassingly obvious desire to start up a relationship with her.
2956. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Miles O'Brien, Miles is finally coming to terms with the idea that he likes men too, but he wonders if there's any point in a happily married father of two coming out as bisexual.
2957. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Odo, Odo is male because he emulated the scientist who discovered him. But if he had it to do over again, he's make some changes.
2958. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Odo and Jadzia Dax, They've both worn differently sexed bodies, and discuss how that affects their sense of gender and of self.
2959. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Odo/Kira, gender is largely irrelevant to the shapeshifting Founders, but Odo has lived most of his life among solids; how does he react when the out bisexual Kira asks him to experiment with being female?
2960. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Odo/Kira, Odo finds hirself wishing to experiment with being one of the many other genders and Kira is supportive.
2961. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Odo-centered/Odo/Kira, Odo is not a solid. Odo is not *male*. And Odo wonders if Kira knew that, would she accept him/her/it?
2962. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, original Bajoran character, when ze first came out as gay hir friends and family found it hard, when ze started dating in a more pubic manner they took it even worse and introducing them to the love of hir's life was almost too much. What happens when they decide to try and marry by circumventing Bajoran law and going straight to the Federation and one Cpt. Benjamin Sisko? (PoV of one of the characters, male or female, just to be clear),
2963. Star Trek: Enterprise, any character, Enterprise depicts the Trek universe at a time when humans are still moving towards enlightenment in many ways. How easy is it to come out aboard the Enterprise?
2964. Star Trek: Enterprise, Jonathan Archer, transgender FtM (Jonathan figures the least he can do is try to look after his father's dream, since his father gave him the chance to live his own.)
2965. Star Trek: Enterprise, Malcolm Reed, Reed comes out as gay or bi to his best friend Trip.
2966. Star Trek: Enterprise, Malcolm Reed & Trip Tucker, Trip discovers Malcolm is actually gay or bi, but Malcolm asks him to keep it to himself. Trip thinks Malcolm is ashamed or scared - but Malcolm argues it's simply no one's business but his own (could be gen or slash - and up to you who has the right of it, if either of them do).
2967. Star Trek: Enterprise, Trip-centered, In the ep 'Congenitor' Trip tries to teach the third-sexed cogenitor 'Charles', only to have him/her commit suicide. Devastated by losing a friend, it takes him a while to come to terms with the fact that a) he had developed feelings for Charles and b) he had developed those feelings while, despite initially thinking of Charles in female terms, he did consider him/her to be male.
2968. Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Spock is outed at his Kol-i-nahr ceremony during the mind-meld, and for this reason is unable to complete his 'purging of emotion'. Well, one of them, anyway.
2969. Star Trek: The Next Generation, any character, seeing Counselor Troi through gender reassignment in the 24th century. (Canon or original character is entirely up to you.)
2970. Star Trek: The Next Generation, any character, five patients who saw Counselor Troi for lgbt-related issues (anything applicable to the 'fest). claimed by fleshlycherry
2971. Star Trek: The Next Generation, any character, The Naked Now - someone's lack of inhibitions during the episode mean they have to rethink their sexual orientation and/or how out they are aboard ship now.
2972. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beverly Crusher, The Host - someone female/non-cis-male becomes Odan's host instead of Will Riker. Beverly finds herself confused but still attracted to this new female version of her lover. How does their relationship pan out?
2973. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beverly Crusher, post-The Host - she's never, never thought of herself as prejudiced or discriminatory, so why did she find herself so bothered by Odan in female form instead of male? Beverly has a lot of thinking to do and comes to realise that she's not as straight as she's always believed.
2974. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beverly Crusher, turning down Kareel turns out to be one of her biggest regrets. Given the opportunity to make it right, though, involves rethinking her sexual identity and she's not sure she's got the courage to do that.
2975. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beverly Crusher/Will Riker/Deanna Troi/Odan, The Host - Deanna hosts Odan instead of Will. This time it's a true joining - and yes, she still loves Will and Beverly, and Will still loves Deanna, and Beverly still loves Odan, but it's a hell of a lot to work through.
2976. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data, The Offspring - his father made he and Lore in his own image, but Data let his child choose her own gender and appearance. Why? Is he curious what might have been if he could have made his own choice?
2977. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data, Having emotions includes having a sexual orientation. He's not sure why everyone expected it to be heterosexuality. claimed by winged_mammal
2978. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data is fully functional and anatomically correct, and his anatomy changes to whatever he feels is appropriate at the time.
2979. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data/Geordi La Forge, interpreting the Holmes/Watson relationship as lovers.
2980. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data/Geordi LaForge, Data is fully functional, but he doesn't particularly like sex. He and Geordi are in a relationship. His research indicates that this is a problem, until Geordi explains that being queer, being in love, and being asexual isn't contradictory at all. (Geordi is asexual/autosexual and homoromantic.)
2981. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data-centered, Now able to feel emotions, Data questions his own assumptions and feelings regarding romance, sex, and even his own gender.
2982. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deanna Troi, post-The Host - she always takes it personally when she has to counsel a friend, but dealing with Beverly's unease/uncertainty at a female Odan's advances is pushing her professional detachment to the limit. (Deanna is bisexual/omnisexual/pansexual.)
2983. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deanna Troi, in The Child, Deanna's baby is genetically identical to Deanna... and yet he's a boy. Is Betazoid gender that fluid, is Deanna MtF, genderqueer, intersex, or is it something else
2984. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deanna Troi, helping patients through gender/sexuality issues as a bi/omni/pansexual/queer counselor.
2985. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deanna Troi, all Betazoids pretty much disregard gender when it comes to choosing a partner or partners. They're not much on complete monogamy, either. How do the crew react the first time the differences in Deanna's values become obvious?
2986. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Geordi La Forge, he sucks at approaching women, because it's not women he really wants to be approaching.
2987. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Geordi La Forge/any transgender character, getting the VISOR taught him that science could help him do anything, be anything and anyone he wanted. If his lover needs to transition, well, he knows what it's like, needing to fix the body you were born in. Suddenly having a male lover, he's fine with that: being more attracted to them now, that's a bit of a surprise.
2988. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Guinan, she's been married 23 times and she's loved all of them, male, female, queer, neuter, intersex, trans and otherwise.
2989. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Guinan, She has always identified herself as Bi, you don't live as long as she has without at least experimenting. When she decides to hold an event in Ten Forward for any LGBT staff and visitors, who surprises her by turning up?
2990. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Guinan, omniromantic asexual Guinan on giving advice to a crew so different from her.
2991. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jean-Luc Picard, 'It's too bad. You would've made a good father.' He never felt this desire for sex that women seem to expect of him, but he does secretly wish he could have been a father.
2992. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jean-Luc Picard/(Jack Crusher/Beverly Crusher), he felt guilty having those feelings for his straight best friend, as well as for his best friend's wife - and after all this time it's even harder to separate the two.
2993. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jean-Luc Picard/Jack Crusher, Tapestry - in the universe created for Picard by Q, Jack is not only alive, but unmarried. Could Picard's life be just as fulfilled but in a different way, if he chooses to explore his feelings for Jack rather than suppress them yet again?
2994. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lal (Data's daughter from The Offspring), Instead of choosing to look like a human female, Lal chooses to look human but stay androgynous. Hir difficulties with Admiral Haftel have nothing to do with being gender neutral, however, and everything to do with Haftel not recognising hir sentience.
2995. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lal (Data's daughter), What were Lal's thought processes and reasonings when she decided that she was female?
2996. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Picard/Q, Q could be any gender he chose to, or make Picard anything, for that matter. Why, then, does Picard find himself more comfortable with Q as a man, when he's never been attracted to men before?
2997. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Picard/Riker, (FC era) Picard was deeply closeted for a very long time, the master of himself, master of his destiny. He didn't see the point in expressing himself with such mundanity and retreated into his imagination with books. He develops feelings for Riker, but he must juggle that along with knowing Riker won't stick to him. So he'll either have to open up and experiment, or remain forever fearful but in his certain mind.
2998. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Q: Q didn't get his powers back after Deja Q and has to adjust to being mortal, including mortal sexuality. While the Q have no concern whatsoever for gender or sexual orientation, the fact that Q has researched *all* of human history (while maybe not paying as much attention to the 24th century as he should have) and tends to think the worst of humans makes him afraid to admit that most of the people on the Enterprise he is interested in are male -- he has a hard enough time dealing with humans' dislike of him without dealing with the homophobia he expects. It may not help that if he does express an interest in certain people, he might get a reaction of shock and distaste -- not because he's male but because he's Q, but he doesn't know that. claimed by alara_r
2999. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reg Barclay, on the holodeck ze might not be able to physically be the right gender, but ze can have everyone react to hir as if ze is. The problem with the real world is that he can't - or is afraid to - express what it is he needs to change.
3000. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Riker, Will's always done the flirtatious thing with women. With men, he takes a different approach.
3001. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Riker/Soren, In the ep 'The Outcast' Riker seemingly falls in love/lust with Soren, a member of the asexual J'naii species, who felt she was female. After having to leave her behind, Riker must deal with the fact that, while people think he was 'okay' with her being physically asexual because she was mentally a woman, in reality, he felt he could have loved her had she stayed asexual, or felt he was a man.
3002. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Tasha Yar/Deanna Troi, Tasha really wishes she could be more confident in her sexuality, the way Deanna is. claimed by spring_gloom
3003. Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Borg, What is the use of gender in a collective, when they are all one central entity. What would it feel like to be assimilated by the Borg Queen, in that case, if gender was nothing?
3004. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wesley Crusher, early in the series' development, Wesley was originally written as Leslie Crusher, a female. How much of Wesley's eagerness/pretentiousness is over-compensation for the feeling that she's in the wrong body, and how does she change when she realises what those feelings are, and that it might be possible to be comfortable in her own skin?
3005. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wesley Crusher, Wesley supposes he's lucky the other kids on the Enterprise are too busy harassing him for his job and his IQ to notice his obvious crush on Commander Riker. Then one day, they do.
3006. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wesley Crusher/Geordi LaForge, There's a reason Wesley wears so much eyeliner, and when a 'transporter accident' deletes his Y chromosome, he's not in that much of a hurry to fix it...
3007. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Will Riker, he always thought he had to be the straight ladies' man to please his father, and monogamous to please his partners, until Deanna taught him he was wrong on both counts. (Will/Deanna, Will/Deanna/other, Will/other, whatever, go wild.),
3008. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Will Riker, Will is bisexual, and after Soren he can't understand why anyone is surprised now he's fallen for someone not cis-female again.
3009. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Will Riker, post-The Outcast - he needs someone to turn to after Soren, someone who'll understand how much he's questioning his own sexuality and gender identity right now.
3010. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Will Riker, post-The Host - Kareel isn't the first female host Odan ever had. Now Will has memories of being a woman that he never had before, and he finds himself re-evaluating his own gender because of it.
3011. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Will Riker/Deanna Troi, even in the 24th century, being an opposite-sex couple tends to lead to assumptions of straightness. Sometimes they just can't help challenging those assumptions. claimed by bebunny
3012. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Will Riker/Deanna Troi, they're both bisexual, which isn't that strange to most people in the 24th century. The other people who flow in and out of their relationship, though, that's a bit more confusing from the outside.
3013. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Will Riker/Deanna Troi/other, established relationship, Will got involved with more than just Deanna back on Betazed. Just because that part of their relationship is long-distance doesn't mean it's over, or that they're going to hide it from anyone.
3014. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Worf, Parallels - Worf jumps into a universe where he's married not to Deanna Troi, but to a male crew member. Once home, how does a Klingon go about questioning their sexuality?'
3015. Star Trek: The Original Series, any character or pairing, Trek's history diverges from our history right around when the gay rights movement was gaining steam. Instead of progress, the Eugenics Wars and World War III pushed social change to the backburner. As a result, the gay rights movement, far from being finished, is only in its middle stages by the 2200s. What is it like to be a citizen in a galaxy where people from different planets get along famously, but your own species still is hesitant about accepting your sexuality?
3016. Star Trek: The Original Series, Chapel/McCoy, Chapel passed as female, until that one time she was alone with McCoy in the sickbay.
3017. Star Trek: The Original Series, James Kirk, During 'The Naked Time' Spock went after Chapel, Sulu rescued 'damsels', and Jim...didn't flirt with any women, despite that being his modus operandi when 'sober'. Why?
3018. Star Trek: The Original Series, Janice Lester, AU, The official reason Lester bodyswitched with Kirk was because of a desire to be captain of a starship and Lester's hatred for Captain Kirk, an ex-Significant Other. Janice could tell Starfleet that both of them wanting physical body and true self to match was far more important than professional ambition...and had nothing to do with revenge.
3019. Star Trek: The Original Series, Kirk/Spock, Because of Kirk’s celebrity as the Enterprise’s captain and Spock’s high social position on Vulcan, their upcoming wedding threatens to turn into an intergalactic event. And not everyone’s pleased with gay nuptials.
3020. Star Trek: The Original Series, Kirk/Spock, When the Enterprise discovers a world where gay is the norm, does that give the Captain and his First Officer the nudge they need to admit their feelings for each other?
3021. Star Trek: The Original Series, Kirk/Uhura, First interracial kiss? No. Kirk was living in stealth, the crew didn't know he was FtM, until this mindcontrol act revealed more than he cared to. Uhura's idea of Kirk as a person is shattered, and how will he deal with everyone who was there knowing?
3022. Star Trek: The Original Series, Leonard McCoy, In the human worlds of the Federation, homosexuality and bisexuality are supposed to be diagnosed and cured in adolescence. McCoy hid his orientation and went untreated. Now he wonders if there are others like him.
3023. Star Trek: The Original Series, McCoy/Spock, Bones never so much as considered that he might be gay, but now there's Spock, and when he thinks about his life in that light things begin to make so much more sense.
3024. Star Trek: The Original Series, Mirror!Spock, The meld with the other universe's Dr. McCoy showed Mirror!Spock a universe unlike he'd ever imagined: a universe in which he was free to explore the desires the Empire demands he never express.
3025. Star Trek: The Original Series, Nyota Uhura as a MtF lady who has never felt the need to get SRS.
3026. Star Trek: The Original Series, Spock, Early in Season One, McCoy practically outed Spock as gay (by saying his body chemistry prevents him from being sexually interested in a beautiful woman, when nothing we know about Vulcans would imply that it's because of his species/race). How does Spock cope with the cultural expectations of Pon Farr when he knows he's gay? Bonus points for including how McCoy knows he's gay
3027. Star Trek: The Original Series, Spock, Humans assume that Vulcans disapprove of homosexuality. It's more complicated than that. claimed by shadowvalkyrie
3028. Star Trek: The Original Series, Spock, T'Pring divorced him because she realized he was gay.
3029. Star Trek: The Original Series, Spock, During a discussion about various species' attitudes toward sexualities the lecturer states that Vulcans would view homosexuality as illogical. Spock corrects this assumption with a lecture of his own on the subject of IDIC.
3030. Star Trek: The Original Series, the difficulties a genderless species inadvertently has when talking to the Enterprise crew.
3031. Star Trek: The Original Series, T'Pring, Vulcan culture never envisioned a situation where a woman could be mind-bonded to a man but could also be attracted to and desire to marry the sister of her male best friend. All T'Pring knows is that she, the woman she loves and her girlfriend's brother Stonn are in a situation not covered by tradition, protocol or logic, and there seems to be no way out.
3032. Star Trek: The Original Series, T'Pring, the reason she called challenge on Spock is that *she's* gay, and *female* homosexuality is taboo on Vulcan because it removes women from the available pool for men in a species where men will die without a monogamous life partner and most men are straight. Stonn could be a transman, a pre-transition transwoman, or just a friend she's using as cover.
3033. Star Trek: The Original Series, Yeoman Rand, She knows that everyone pretty much expects her to be the Captain's Girl, but it's the communications officer (Uhura) she's had her eye on. How does she balance the expectations of her workplace about what role she should play in her gender expression and her romantic attractions with her genuine self? What about the supposedly diversity-encouraging atmosphere of Starfleet makes her feel like she has to? Does it have anything to do with why she suddenly disappeared off the Enterprise and Captain Kirk had to go through a whole new rotation of assistants?
3034. Star Trek: TOS or XI, Human/Vulcan, gay/straight, male/female: Spock has been dealing with binaries all his life.
3035. Star Trek: Voyager, B'Elanna Torres, B'Elanna has enough issues being both human and Klingon. She doesn't think she can handle being attracted to both men and women, too.
3036. Star Trek: Voyager, B'Elanna Torres, B'Elanna has enough issues being both human and Klingon. She doesn't think she can handle being attracted to both men and women, too.
3037. Star Trek: Voyager, B'Elanna Torres, being not entirely Klingon or entirely Human has always been bad enough, so it's taken her this long to realise that's not all that feels wrong about the body she was born with.
3038. Star Trek: Voyager, B'Elanna Torres/Tom Paris, They are the queerest m/f couple ever, and it's kind of awesome.
3039. Star Trek: Voyager, B'Elanna Torres/Tom Paris, 'Next time, you carry the baby while I go on away missions.' 'Deal.' (Actual quote.) Adorable trans Tom babyfic?
3040. Star Trek: Voyager, Chakotay/Tom Paris, Sexual identity in the 24th century isn't much of an issue anymore, but someone had forgotten to tell Admiral Paris that. Chakotay deals with the fallout that this has on Tom and their relationship.
3041. Star Trek: Voyager, Janeway/Q, Janeway prefers women sexually. She has romantic feelings for a few men but they rarely get her really hot; she prefers strong loving friendships with men to actually having sex with them. 'I must deprive myself because I can't sleep with my second-in-command' is really a convenient fiction so she doesn't have to admit to Chakotay that although she loves him, she doesn't desire him. Q figures it out and calls her on it by taking female form.
3042. Star Trek: Voyager, Janeway/Seven or Janeway/Torres, In addition to being attracted to one of her crew members, Janeway must deal with whether being out will hurt her authority.
3043. Star Trek: Voyager, Kathryn Janeway, balancing her butch identity with avoiding the stereotype of a female command officer.
3044. Star Trek: Voyager, Kathryn Janeway/Betazoid OFC, The Federation needs a great lovestory after the horrors of the Dominion War, the reunion of Admiral Janeway and her Imzadi is just what the holo-Doctor ordered.
3045. Star Trek: Voyager, Kathryn Janeway/Seven of Nine, Captain Janeway has never questioned whether her interest in Seven of Nine is anything other than maternal until her crew starts doing it for her.
3046. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, Individuality is one thing, but human sexuality is quite another. Homosexuality is irrelevant and serves no purpose. Or at least that's what she tells herself to suppress the thoughts and urges she doesn't understand.
3047. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, it's taken time and some experimentation with men like Chakotay but Seven has finally figured out that she's a lesbian. Could happen back on Earth or in the alternate timeline where she actually *married* Chakotay.
3048. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, she thinks there are no potential mates for her aboard Voyager, because the Doctor didn't want to suggest to the woman he was hoping would choose him that there's more genders than his to consider. But Seven really isn't as ignorant as all that - it isn't going to take her long to explore the idea.
3049. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, she doesn't understand why dating went so badly when she was conforming to every required stereotype. When she's acting like herself, she doesn't conform to any at all - and everything happens by accident and works out perfectly. (Seven/Janeway, Seven/B'Elanna, Seven/whoever...)
3050. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, Seven has had so much difficulty becoming human again, that she put not feeling female off to 'just needing more time to settle into her skin' as the Doctor said. But that's not it.
3051. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, No, actually, Seven doesn't have to embrace sexuality in order to be human claimed by neth_dugan
3052. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, as Seven adjusts to becoming human instead of borg and all the complexities that brings, Seven realises that ze is genderqueer.
3053. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine/Kathryn Janeway, Janeway and/or Seven confronts the Doctor about just why he didn't include her own gender when he was teaching Seven how to date.
3054. Star Trek: Voyager, The Doctor, The Doc is very enthusiastic about his newfound [LGBTQIA+] identity. There are slideshows. Many slideshows.
3055. Star Trek: Voyager, The Doctor, post-Body And Soul - now that he's had a chance to experience living in a female form, he actually thinks he might prefer it.
3056. Star Trek: Voyager, The Doctor (EMH), He's spent so much time trying to get the crew to see him as a person in his own right, trying to *become* a person in his own right...does he dare admit that he is a she?
3057. Star Trek: Voyager, Tom Paris, In the 24th Century, no one cares who you love or if you choose to switch genders. Tom has a strong obsession over history and the past, after his trip to the 1990’s he considers the journey that LGBT people went through to reach that point and how things are taken for granted in his own time.
3058. Star Trek: Voyager, Tom Paris/Chakotay, Everyone is surprised when ladies’ man Tom Paris kisses Chakotay. Tom doesn’t get what the big deal is. Chakotay has to deal with the fact that his view of Tom has been wrong all along.
3059. Star Wars, Anakin Skywalker, Anakin sees life in binaries: good/evil, Loyalist/Separatist, male/female, straight/gay, etc. What happens when one of the binaries he takes for granted falls apart? (Anything from Padme mentioning an old girlfriend to Obi-Wan being trans to discovering that intersexuality exists.)
3060. Star Wars, Anakin Skywalker, The Jedi understood why Ani was raised as a boy on Tatooine, but thought she didn't need to hide that way in the Temple. Anakin doesn't think he is now or was then, and he's frustrated. Isn't the Force supposed to engage a Jedi's empathy? claimed by ion_bond
3061. Star Wars, Any Jedi, Attachment is forbidden - what's the view on casual sex? Does it matter who it's with?
3062. Star Wars, Han Solo is FtM. One of the reasons Chewbacca is his co-pilot is due to how Wookies perceive gender.
3063. Star Wars, Han Solo/Luke Skywalker, Corellians are open about all sexualities, but those from Tatooine are not. Can Han persuade Luke to enjoy what they could have together?
3064. Star Wars, Han Solo/Luke Skywalker, Corellians are open about all sexualities, but those from Tatooine are not. Can Han persuade Luke to enjoy what they could have together?
3065. Star Wars, Han Solo/Luke Skywalker, The Old Republic did not approve of homosexuality. Will the New Republic be the same?
3066. Star Wars, Mon Mothma, mentoring Leia in politics and rebellion reminds Mon of Padme, but she can't say anything about anything. Except perhaps that non-humans, women, and humans of color aren't the only groups Emperor Palpatine is oppressing (as if that weren't enough!). Bonus if Leia has trouble fitting into the Senate closet, because on Alderaan most people have no problem with a bisexual adoptee inheriting the throne.
3067. Star Wars EU, Thrawn/Pellaeon, Inappropriate relations with an alien could get him kicked out of the Imperial Navy, but relations with a male alien could get him executed.
3068. Star Wars X-Wing series, Wedge Antilles/Tycho Celchu, their friendship has always been closer than Wedge and Wes' or even Wes and Hobbie's.
3069. Stardust (movie), Captain Shakespeare, His crew are very protective of their captain, no matter how big and nasty the bigots are.
3070. Stardust (movie), Captain Shakespeare, Captain Shakespeare has been outed to his crew. How does he handle his personal life after that and how do things change?
3071. Stardust (movie), Captain Shakespeare has been outted to his crew. How does he handle his personal life after that and how do things change?
3072. Stardust (movie), Shakespeare/his first mate, the pirate tries to help Shakespeare to stop feeling ashamed of his sexuality.
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2876. Star Trek, Any, Genetic engineering is illegal in the Federation, gender reassignment is one of the few exceptions to this law
2877. Star Trek, any female character, why this is a good time in Earth's history to be a lesbian. claimed by katemonkey
2878. Star Trek, Joanna McCoy, Joanna's lesbian, and she really doesn't care what her father thinks
2879. Star Trek, reboot!Uhura/TOS!Uhura, There's only one person Uhura can share her secret with without risking her entire career. claimed by jouissant
2880. Star Trek (any era), Any human character, Most people on Earth don't see the point in identifying as a sexual orientation anymore, since the gender of one's partners is socially irrelevant. What might make a character still choose to embrace an lesbian/gay/bisexual identity
2881. Star Trek (any series), any characters, The experiences of transgendered Starfleet crew members of various species; Andorians, Tellarites, Vulcans, etc.
2882. Star Trek (any series), any characters, Andorians have four sexes. How does this affect what it means for them to be LGBT?
2883. Star Trek (any series), any femslash pairing, an exploration of what it means to be out, closeted, or both within the ST universe
2884. Star Trek (any series), The Federation requires a treatment to 'correct' LGBT sexualities before a person can serve in Star Fleet. How one LGBT crew member gets around this rule, and why.
2885. Star Trek (any version), any characters, Starfleet is military, right? But surely by 2255 DADT is gone. ...Right?
2886. Star Trek (any), any character, At Betazoid weddings, the bride and groom, and all the guests are naked. Someone sees completely unexpected genitals on someone they know.
2887. Star Trek (any), any characters, A group of queer/trans Starfleet officers encounter a culture that is some form of LGBTQIA+ majority. Instead of this being a symbol of how Strange and Inhuman and Other they are, it's a reassuring and familiar sight. :)
2888. Star Trek (any), It's first contact with a technically advanced planet that uses most of their tech for fun and emotional enlightenment. This seems fine, until the trade leader/other people they met with changes genders overnight to show what the tech can do. With people constantly changing their physical appearance as easily and thoughtlessly as other people change clothes, the crew is forced to think *thoughts*.
2889. Star Trek IV, Gillian Taylor, the best part of coming into the 23rd century and joining Starfleet is that Gillian can fully express her sexuality no matter where she lives.
2890. Star Trek TOS or XI, any characters, the Enterprise Sexuality Support/Social Group always has the best parties, but the prep can be nerve-wracking...
2891. Star Trek TOS or XI, Leonard McCoy and Joanna McCoy, They've always thought it was unfair that Jocelyn got custody of Joanna just because Leonard was gay; after all, he's the parent who let Joanna be herself instead of insisting that she is really his son.
2892. Star Trek TOS or XI, Sarek, If Spock assumes his parents are both 100% heterosexual just because they married each other, Sarek isn't sure he should enlighten his son. Especially not when he's encouraging Spock to be a traditional Vulcan who marries the girl picked out for him in childhood and goes to the Vulcan Science Academy. But occasionally, he wonders if it might help Spock to know that even some full-blooded Vulcans often don't fit into traditional Vulcan molds, and they manage all right. (Quite a lot of Vulcans, actually, as Sarek learned in his youth. They're just discreet about it.) claimed by cmdr_spock
2893. Star Trek TOS or XI, Spock/Leonard McCoy, How Leonard McCoy has escaped Star Fleets 'no homosexuals' clause for over 25 years.
2894. Star Trek XI, Jim Kirk/Leonard McCoy McCoy has reservations about a relationship with openly bisexual Jim--who says Jim's not going to up and leave him for some pretty girl?
2895. Star Trek XI, 'Cupcake', He's big, butch, bold, brave...and with medical confidentiality being what it is, no one outside Sickbay would ever realize he used to be a woman
2896. Star Trek XI, any, gender norms are still pretty prevalent on the 24th century Earth. Transition from male to female or vice versa is relatively well understood, but there's a not a lot of room between the two, even in deep space.
2897. Star Trek XI, any character, It's been a while since most people considered sexual orientation more than a personal quirk, but s/he feels that identifying as gay or lesbian is an important way of respecting history.
2898. Star Trek XI, any character, Just because most humans choose to conform to strict gender ideas about uniforms, doesn't mean there are no men on board the Enterprise who choose to wear the uniform dress.
2899. Star Trek XI, any characters, You've got the pants option and the miniskirt option for uniforms. You've also got aliens that don't conform to Earth stereotypes or prejudices. Cue bemusement on alien's part when humans think his/her choice of attire is because of his/her sexual orientation, when in fact they have nothing to do with each other.
2900. Star Trek XI, any Vulcan (including OCs), Mental compatibility has always been more important to Vulcans than gender, but Vulcans are also logical. Now that they need to rebuild their race, nothing is logical about same-sex bondings. claimed by igrockspock
2901. Star Trek XI, any Vulcan character, Homosexuality has always been frowned upon on Vulcan as being illogical. What happens to that situation when Vulcan is destroyed?
2902. Star Trek XI, any Vulcans living at the new colony, Before the destruction of Vulcan, one married to produce heirs and dealt with any other inclinations in whatever way one and one's bondmate deemed appropriate, discreetly. Now a demographic imbalance in the surviving population means that a statistically significant number of males will not be able to marry Vulcan women. Interspecies marriage is only one option. For the Vulcan women, there are not so many options.
2903. Star Trek XI, Chekov, He's confident enough to be mostly out about being bi, but he's far too shy to admit he wants to wear the uniform dress. Or any dress. Or just...not boy's clothes.
2904. Star Trek XI, Christine Chapel/Nyota Uhura, Chapel married Roger to hide her attraction to the same sex. But with her impending divorce and her deepening bond with Uhura can she continue to lie to herself?
2905. Star Trek XI, Gaila, Gaila is bisexual; she's not sure why people on Earth assume that's both common and accepted among Orions, because in her experience it's neither.
2906. Star Trek XI, Gaila, She's not a slave anymore. That means she gets to *choose*.
2907. Star Trek XI, Gaila/Uhura, Gaila gets sex, but not the human concept of sexual identity; Meanwhile, Uhura's queer identity is very important to her.
2908. Star Trek XI, James Kirk/Leonard McCoy, McCoy doesn't know how the kid has him not only in space (which he fears and loathes with equal passion), but wanting to have sex with a man, too.
2909. Star Trek XI, Jim Kirk, Jim has always liked women more than men. That doesn't mean he doesn't like men. Just that, in his experience, men are more likely to fuck you up.
2910. Star Trek XI, Jim Kirk, tough enough doing 2 years of the Academy in one. Try doing it with genetic and hormonal therapies as part of a gender transition to female.
2911. Star Trek XI, Jim Kirk(/Leonard McCoy), Jim's never given much thought to his sexual orientation, it's not like he's ever had an actual relationship, so what if he occasionally takes some hot guy up on his offer? But then he and Bones end up together, and as Captain he can't really go looking for anyone else, and Jim has to face facts: straight/gay/bi/whatever, Bones is it for him. And what does that mean?
2912. Star Trek XI, Jim Kirk/Leonard McCoy, For McCoy, losing his family because he couldn't hide his orientation anymore was hard enough, actually falling in love and building a relationship with his best friend is utterly terrifying.
2913. Star Trek XI, Jim Kirk/Spock When Starfleet gave him the Enterprise, they didn't know their golden boy preferred men. If they ever find out the real reason Jim wanted Spock for his First Officer, they'll be looking for any excuse to take Jim's ship away from him.
2914. Star Trek XI, Jim/Bones, Jim thought when Bones propositioned him that Bones knew he was trans/intersex--wouldn't something like that be in his medical file? But now that they've had a disasterous, mutually humiliating hook-up, can they put it behind them and still have the relationship they both want? Because the attraction isn't going anywhere.
2915. Star Trek XI, Keenser, Everyone thought ze was male until they realized se and Scotty were together, now they think ze is female. WTF is up with humans not realizing that Keenser is not human? claimed by super_keen
2916. Star Trek XI, Kirk, Even in a 'tolerant' society, humans at Starfleet Academy are supposed to pick one thing and stick with it. Jim Kirk thinks that's bullshit.
2917. Star Trek XI, Kirk, contrary to popular belief he doesn't bang everything that moves but he just might if he's good looking enough.
2918. Star Trek XI, Kirk/anyone, just because he enjoys sex doesn't mean he's not ace, not that his partner believes him.
2919. Star Trek XI, Kirk/McCoy, Kirk is scared to come out to McCoy, even as bisexual, because of all the shit he's gotten for it in the past
2920. Star Trek XI, Kirk/Spock, desperate to regain strength after the devastation to the fleet at the Battle of Vulcan, Starfleet introduces a policy inspired by the Sacred Band of Thebes that requires Captains and their First Officers to be in an intimate relationship. When the policy is repealed after a short time, why do Kirk and Spock find it difficult to break off their relationship? (The Sacred Band was made up of male couples, the rationale being that lovers could fight more fiercely and cohesively than strangers with no ardent bonds.) claimed by nahara
2921. Star Trek XI, Leonard McCoy, the real reason he divorced his wife and she can't stand him? A few years into their marriage, he realized he was fooling himself. He admitted to himself, and her, that he was gay. She didn't take it well and neither did his family. Enlisting in StarFleet helped him get away from that prejudice, but not everyone he meets at the Academy is accepting either
2922. Star Trek XI, Leonard McCoy(/Jim Kirk), It was Jocelyn for so long, and then the divorce, so until Jim stuck his hand down his pants, Len had never given much thought to other men. He would never have expected he liked being fucked so much, and he's not quite sure he's okay with that, no matter how much he likes it. claimed by old_blueeyes
2923. Star Trek XI, Leonard McCoy/(Jim Kirk), The real reason McCoy's marriage failed is that Jocelyn was a lesbian, and McCoy realized that while he was bi, he wasn't a woman. But between the divorce and finishing his transition, he'd never actually gotten to try out his new body with a partner - until Jim.
2924. Star Trek XI, Nyota Uhura, Uhura is proficient in 83% of official Federation languages and regional dialects, and more besides that, but she hasn't found pronouns that feel quite right. Until now.
2925. Star Trek XI, original crew member, They've heard all the horror stories about Doctor McCoy, so it's more than a little scary to go to him for SRS. As it turns out, they didn't need to worry about it at all. claimed by medie
2926. Star Trek XI, Pavel Chekov/Hikaru Sulu, Chekov is terrified of his boyfriend discovering that he was born intersex, and physically, still is, even if he identifies as male.
2927. Star Trek XI, Sarek, Pursuing an attraction to a male - human, Vulcan, or otherwise - is decidedly not the logical thing to do. So why can't Sarek stop contemplating it?
2928. Star Trek XI, Scotty, he's been alone for so long. Makes sexuality difficult. Coming onto the Enterprise opens a whole new world for him.
2929. Star Trek XI, Scotty/McCoy, Just because Scotty's into ships doesn't mean he hasn't got a thing for humans too... they just happen to be male.
2930. Star Trek XI, Spock, just how logical does Vulcan find identifying trans?
2931. Star Trek XI, Spock, Yes, he's kissed Uhura, but that doesn't make him straight
2932. Star Trek XI, Spock, When you were genetically engineered it's hard to convince your parents it's not their 'fault' you're queer. claimed by sunfell
2933. Star Trek XI, Spock, Spock finds opening up emotionally to be easier with members of the same sex. How does he reconcile his feelings for men with his feelings that he must help rebuild the Vulcan race?
2934. Star Trek XI, Spock and Leonard McCoy, Spock attends a medical conference with Bones where the discussion of repopulating Vulcan is a major theme. Spock explains sexual intercourse is not needed to carry on genetic material. Nor is the concept of cherishing both genders a foreign or illogical one. Bones remarks after the conference that Spock seemed to take the whole conversation awfully personally and he has a personal theory of his own about why because loving both genders isn't a foreign concept to 23rd century Earth either.
2935. Star Trek XI, Spock/Uhura/McCoy, Vulcans see bisexuality and polyamory as a logical occurrence but other parts of the Federation seem to disagree.
2936. Star Trek XI, Uhura, From ten seconds after she met Jim Kirk, she had him pegged as a manwhore/playboy. But she thought Kirk was the man who played with girls. Not that he did guys too. And finding this out, why is it such a shock to her to have her assumptions shattered in such a way
2937. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Any characters, When Keiko O'Brien almost lost her baby, Major Kira wasn't there to take it. Neither was any other woman. So Bashir has to go with plan b: a man. How does this man deal with what is, to his mind, something uniquely feminine?
2938. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, any Ferengi, being a trans woman in the extremely patriarchal Ferengi culture, which requires women to be naked almost always.
2939. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Dax (as in Dax itself, or bonded in any host), what is it like for a genderless being being bonded to so many people of different genders over the years and how does that affect its identities? The identity of those it is bonded to? Bonus points if one of Dax's hosts was trans themselves.
2940. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Elim Garak, On Cardassia, family was everything and men like Garak were considered deviants. As Tain's right-hand, Garak was too powerful to be accused of sodomy--but then he's exiled to DS9. Living among Federation citizens who accept homosexuality as perfectly natural, Garak is forced to examine his own internalised prejudices.
2941. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Elim Garak & or / Julian Bashir, Human and Cardassian concepts of sexuality don't quite mesh. spring_gloom
2942. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Ezri Dax, Ezri wasn't bisexual before being joined with the Dax symbiont, and now she has to adjust claimed by loneraven
2943. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Ezri Dax, there's a reason Ezri has zero desire to be joined: she thinks it's the work of a lifetime just figuring out her own identity.
2944. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Garak, on Cardassia it doesn't matter whether you're gay or straight -- you still get married to continue your family line. Garak learns that his pursuit of Ziyal is completely confusing to Bashir, and must find a way to explain to the human he loves that wanting to marry Ziyal in order to have a legitimate Cardassian family has nothing to do with his sexual orientation or who he actually loves.
2945. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Garak, With the Cardassians being a reptilic species who as such have for a long time handled trans issues in an almost casual way compared to mammals it is a strange thing for him to see mammalian humanoids try and deal with them, especially when he discovers one of the senior staff is struggling with such issues themselves. (Not Odo)
2946. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Jadzia Dax, the Trills' relationship with gender is ... complex. claimed by elishabet
2947. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Jadzia Dax, Dax isn't too fussed about the labels other people use to describe her sexuality.
2948. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Jadzia Dax/Lenara, What if Jadzia and Lenara had discovered that they *had* had real feelings for each other?
2949. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Julian Bashir, Starfleet has moved beyond bigotry, and homophobia has absolutely no relevance to the modern world... or so Julian had thought.
2950. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Julian Bashir, Julian expected to face prejudice over his genetically enhanced status, but not over his choice of partner.
2951. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Julian Bashir/Elim Garak, Julian's spent his entire life in the closet in more ways than one, now that he's been outed as genetically enhanced and he and his career have survived, does it give him the confidence to come out as queer? And how does his partner, Garak, feel about that?
2952. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Julian Bashir/Garak, Julian has always pursued women because he believes that his attractions to men are meaningless, arising from a 'mistake' in his genetic reprogramming. His feelings for Garak are making him question that assumption.
2953. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Kira, Seeing/hearing about her Mirror universe counterpart's sexual tendencies forces Kira to acknowledge parts of herself she never really had time to think about during the Occupation and has tried to avoid since then. claimed by hathy_col
2954. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Kira Nerys, Nerys was a rough-and-tumble, scrappy little boy. That didn't stop her from wanting to be a girl.
2955. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Kira/Jadzia Dax, Jadzia fails to see why it's so difficult for Kira to act on her almost embarrassingly obvious desire to start up a relationship with her.
2956. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Miles O'Brien, Miles is finally coming to terms with the idea that he likes men too, but he wonders if there's any point in a happily married father of two coming out as bisexual.
2957. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Odo, Odo is male because he emulated the scientist who discovered him. But if he had it to do over again, he's make some changes.
2958. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Odo and Jadzia Dax, They've both worn differently sexed bodies, and discuss how that affects their sense of gender and of self.
2959. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Odo/Kira, gender is largely irrelevant to the shapeshifting Founders, but Odo has lived most of his life among solids; how does he react when the out bisexual Kira asks him to experiment with being female?
2960. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Odo/Kira, Odo finds hirself wishing to experiment with being one of the many other genders and Kira is supportive.
2961. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Odo-centered/Odo/Kira, Odo is not a solid. Odo is not *male*. And Odo wonders if Kira knew that, would she accept him/her/it?
2962. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, original Bajoran character, when ze first came out as gay hir friends and family found it hard, when ze started dating in a more pubic manner they took it even worse and introducing them to the love of hir's life was almost too much. What happens when they decide to try and marry by circumventing Bajoran law and going straight to the Federation and one Cpt. Benjamin Sisko? (PoV of one of the characters, male or female, just to be clear),
2963. Star Trek: Enterprise, any character, Enterprise depicts the Trek universe at a time when humans are still moving towards enlightenment in many ways. How easy is it to come out aboard the Enterprise?
2964. Star Trek: Enterprise, Jonathan Archer, transgender FtM (Jonathan figures the least he can do is try to look after his father's dream, since his father gave him the chance to live his own.)
2965. Star Trek: Enterprise, Malcolm Reed, Reed comes out as gay or bi to his best friend Trip.
2966. Star Trek: Enterprise, Malcolm Reed & Trip Tucker, Trip discovers Malcolm is actually gay or bi, but Malcolm asks him to keep it to himself. Trip thinks Malcolm is ashamed or scared - but Malcolm argues it's simply no one's business but his own (could be gen or slash - and up to you who has the right of it, if either of them do).
2967. Star Trek: Enterprise, Trip-centered, In the ep 'Congenitor' Trip tries to teach the third-sexed cogenitor 'Charles', only to have him/her commit suicide. Devastated by losing a friend, it takes him a while to come to terms with the fact that a) he had developed feelings for Charles and b) he had developed those feelings while, despite initially thinking of Charles in female terms, he did consider him/her to be male.
2968. Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Spock is outed at his Kol-i-nahr ceremony during the mind-meld, and for this reason is unable to complete his 'purging of emotion'. Well, one of them, anyway.
2969. Star Trek: The Next Generation, any character, seeing Counselor Troi through gender reassignment in the 24th century. (Canon or original character is entirely up to you.)
2970. Star Trek: The Next Generation, any character, five patients who saw Counselor Troi for lgbt-related issues (anything applicable to the 'fest). claimed by fleshlycherry
2971. Star Trek: The Next Generation, any character, The Naked Now - someone's lack of inhibitions during the episode mean they have to rethink their sexual orientation and/or how out they are aboard ship now.
2972. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beverly Crusher, The Host - someone female/non-cis-male becomes Odan's host instead of Will Riker. Beverly finds herself confused but still attracted to this new female version of her lover. How does their relationship pan out?
2973. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beverly Crusher, post-The Host - she's never, never thought of herself as prejudiced or discriminatory, so why did she find herself so bothered by Odan in female form instead of male? Beverly has a lot of thinking to do and comes to realise that she's not as straight as she's always believed.
2974. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beverly Crusher, turning down Kareel turns out to be one of her biggest regrets. Given the opportunity to make it right, though, involves rethinking her sexual identity and she's not sure she's got the courage to do that.
2975. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beverly Crusher/Will Riker/Deanna Troi/Odan, The Host - Deanna hosts Odan instead of Will. This time it's a true joining - and yes, she still loves Will and Beverly, and Will still loves Deanna, and Beverly still loves Odan, but it's a hell of a lot to work through.
2976. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data, The Offspring - his father made he and Lore in his own image, but Data let his child choose her own gender and appearance. Why? Is he curious what might have been if he could have made his own choice?
2977. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data, Having emotions includes having a sexual orientation. He's not sure why everyone expected it to be heterosexuality. claimed by winged_mammal
2978. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data is fully functional and anatomically correct, and his anatomy changes to whatever he feels is appropriate at the time.
2979. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data/Geordi La Forge, interpreting the Holmes/Watson relationship as lovers.
2980. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data/Geordi LaForge, Data is fully functional, but he doesn't particularly like sex. He and Geordi are in a relationship. His research indicates that this is a problem, until Geordi explains that being queer, being in love, and being asexual isn't contradictory at all. (Geordi is asexual/autosexual and homoromantic.)
2981. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data-centered, Now able to feel emotions, Data questions his own assumptions and feelings regarding romance, sex, and even his own gender.
2982. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deanna Troi, post-The Host - she always takes it personally when she has to counsel a friend, but dealing with Beverly's unease/uncertainty at a female Odan's advances is pushing her professional detachment to the limit. (Deanna is bisexual/omnisexual/pansexual.)
2983. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deanna Troi, in The Child, Deanna's baby is genetically identical to Deanna... and yet he's a boy. Is Betazoid gender that fluid, is Deanna MtF, genderqueer, intersex, or is it something else
2984. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deanna Troi, helping patients through gender/sexuality issues as a bi/omni/pansexual/queer counselor.
2985. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deanna Troi, all Betazoids pretty much disregard gender when it comes to choosing a partner or partners. They're not much on complete monogamy, either. How do the crew react the first time the differences in Deanna's values become obvious?
2986. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Geordi La Forge, he sucks at approaching women, because it's not women he really wants to be approaching.
2987. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Geordi La Forge/any transgender character, getting the VISOR taught him that science could help him do anything, be anything and anyone he wanted. If his lover needs to transition, well, he knows what it's like, needing to fix the body you were born in. Suddenly having a male lover, he's fine with that: being more attracted to them now, that's a bit of a surprise.
2988. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Guinan, she's been married 23 times and she's loved all of them, male, female, queer, neuter, intersex, trans and otherwise.
2989. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Guinan, She has always identified herself as Bi, you don't live as long as she has without at least experimenting. When she decides to hold an event in Ten Forward for any LGBT staff and visitors, who surprises her by turning up?
2990. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Guinan, omniromantic asexual Guinan on giving advice to a crew so different from her.
2991. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jean-Luc Picard, 'It's too bad. You would've made a good father.' He never felt this desire for sex that women seem to expect of him, but he does secretly wish he could have been a father.
2992. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jean-Luc Picard/(Jack Crusher/Beverly Crusher), he felt guilty having those feelings for his straight best friend, as well as for his best friend's wife - and after all this time it's even harder to separate the two.
2993. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jean-Luc Picard/Jack Crusher, Tapestry - in the universe created for Picard by Q, Jack is not only alive, but unmarried. Could Picard's life be just as fulfilled but in a different way, if he chooses to explore his feelings for Jack rather than suppress them yet again?
2994. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lal (Data's daughter from The Offspring), Instead of choosing to look like a human female, Lal chooses to look human but stay androgynous. Hir difficulties with Admiral Haftel have nothing to do with being gender neutral, however, and everything to do with Haftel not recognising hir sentience.
2995. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lal (Data's daughter), What were Lal's thought processes and reasonings when she decided that she was female?
2996. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Picard/Q, Q could be any gender he chose to, or make Picard anything, for that matter. Why, then, does Picard find himself more comfortable with Q as a man, when he's never been attracted to men before?
2997. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Picard/Riker, (FC era) Picard was deeply closeted for a very long time, the master of himself, master of his destiny. He didn't see the point in expressing himself with such mundanity and retreated into his imagination with books. He develops feelings for Riker, but he must juggle that along with knowing Riker won't stick to him. So he'll either have to open up and experiment, or remain forever fearful but in his certain mind.
2998. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Q: Q didn't get his powers back after Deja Q and has to adjust to being mortal, including mortal sexuality. While the Q have no concern whatsoever for gender or sexual orientation, the fact that Q has researched *all* of human history (while maybe not paying as much attention to the 24th century as he should have) and tends to think the worst of humans makes him afraid to admit that most of the people on the Enterprise he is interested in are male -- he has a hard enough time dealing with humans' dislike of him without dealing with the homophobia he expects. It may not help that if he does express an interest in certain people, he might get a reaction of shock and distaste -- not because he's male but because he's Q, but he doesn't know that. claimed by alara_r
2999. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reg Barclay, on the holodeck ze might not be able to physically be the right gender, but ze can have everyone react to hir as if ze is. The problem with the real world is that he can't - or is afraid to - express what it is he needs to change.
3000. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Riker, Will's always done the flirtatious thing with women. With men, he takes a different approach.
3001. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Riker/Soren, In the ep 'The Outcast' Riker seemingly falls in love/lust with Soren, a member of the asexual J'naii species, who felt she was female. After having to leave her behind, Riker must deal with the fact that, while people think he was 'okay' with her being physically asexual because she was mentally a woman, in reality, he felt he could have loved her had she stayed asexual, or felt he was a man.
3002. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Tasha Yar/Deanna Troi, Tasha really wishes she could be more confident in her sexuality, the way Deanna is. claimed by spring_gloom
3003. Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Borg, What is the use of gender in a collective, when they are all one central entity. What would it feel like to be assimilated by the Borg Queen, in that case, if gender was nothing?
3004. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wesley Crusher, early in the series' development, Wesley was originally written as Leslie Crusher, a female. How much of Wesley's eagerness/pretentiousness is over-compensation for the feeling that she's in the wrong body, and how does she change when she realises what those feelings are, and that it might be possible to be comfortable in her own skin?
3005. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wesley Crusher, Wesley supposes he's lucky the other kids on the Enterprise are too busy harassing him for his job and his IQ to notice his obvious crush on Commander Riker. Then one day, they do.
3006. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wesley Crusher/Geordi LaForge, There's a reason Wesley wears so much eyeliner, and when a 'transporter accident' deletes his Y chromosome, he's not in that much of a hurry to fix it...
3007. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Will Riker, he always thought he had to be the straight ladies' man to please his father, and monogamous to please his partners, until Deanna taught him he was wrong on both counts. (Will/Deanna, Will/Deanna/other, Will/other, whatever, go wild.),
3008. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Will Riker, Will is bisexual, and after Soren he can't understand why anyone is surprised now he's fallen for someone not cis-female again.
3009. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Will Riker, post-The Outcast - he needs someone to turn to after Soren, someone who'll understand how much he's questioning his own sexuality and gender identity right now.
3010. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Will Riker, post-The Host - Kareel isn't the first female host Odan ever had. Now Will has memories of being a woman that he never had before, and he finds himself re-evaluating his own gender because of it.
3011. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Will Riker/Deanna Troi, even in the 24th century, being an opposite-sex couple tends to lead to assumptions of straightness. Sometimes they just can't help challenging those assumptions. claimed by bebunny
3012. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Will Riker/Deanna Troi, they're both bisexual, which isn't that strange to most people in the 24th century. The other people who flow in and out of their relationship, though, that's a bit more confusing from the outside.
3013. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Will Riker/Deanna Troi/other, established relationship, Will got involved with more than just Deanna back on Betazed. Just because that part of their relationship is long-distance doesn't mean it's over, or that they're going to hide it from anyone.
3014. Star Trek: The Next Generation, Worf, Parallels - Worf jumps into a universe where he's married not to Deanna Troi, but to a male crew member. Once home, how does a Klingon go about questioning their sexuality?'
3015. Star Trek: The Original Series, any character or pairing, Trek's history diverges from our history right around when the gay rights movement was gaining steam. Instead of progress, the Eugenics Wars and World War III pushed social change to the backburner. As a result, the gay rights movement, far from being finished, is only in its middle stages by the 2200s. What is it like to be a citizen in a galaxy where people from different planets get along famously, but your own species still is hesitant about accepting your sexuality?
3016. Star Trek: The Original Series, Chapel/McCoy, Chapel passed as female, until that one time she was alone with McCoy in the sickbay.
3017. Star Trek: The Original Series, James Kirk, During 'The Naked Time' Spock went after Chapel, Sulu rescued 'damsels', and Jim...didn't flirt with any women, despite that being his modus operandi when 'sober'. Why?
3018. Star Trek: The Original Series, Janice Lester, AU, The official reason Lester bodyswitched with Kirk was because of a desire to be captain of a starship and Lester's hatred for Captain Kirk, an ex-Significant Other. Janice could tell Starfleet that both of them wanting physical body and true self to match was far more important than professional ambition...and had nothing to do with revenge.
3019. Star Trek: The Original Series, Kirk/Spock, Because of Kirk’s celebrity as the Enterprise’s captain and Spock’s high social position on Vulcan, their upcoming wedding threatens to turn into an intergalactic event. And not everyone’s pleased with gay nuptials.
3020. Star Trek: The Original Series, Kirk/Spock, When the Enterprise discovers a world where gay is the norm, does that give the Captain and his First Officer the nudge they need to admit their feelings for each other?
3021. Star Trek: The Original Series, Kirk/Uhura, First interracial kiss? No. Kirk was living in stealth, the crew didn't know he was FtM, until this mindcontrol act revealed more than he cared to. Uhura's idea of Kirk as a person is shattered, and how will he deal with everyone who was there knowing?
3022. Star Trek: The Original Series, Leonard McCoy, In the human worlds of the Federation, homosexuality and bisexuality are supposed to be diagnosed and cured in adolescence. McCoy hid his orientation and went untreated. Now he wonders if there are others like him.
3023. Star Trek: The Original Series, McCoy/Spock, Bones never so much as considered that he might be gay, but now there's Spock, and when he thinks about his life in that light things begin to make so much more sense.
3024. Star Trek: The Original Series, Mirror!Spock, The meld with the other universe's Dr. McCoy showed Mirror!Spock a universe unlike he'd ever imagined: a universe in which he was free to explore the desires the Empire demands he never express.
3025. Star Trek: The Original Series, Nyota Uhura as a MtF lady who has never felt the need to get SRS.
3026. Star Trek: The Original Series, Spock, Early in Season One, McCoy practically outed Spock as gay (by saying his body chemistry prevents him from being sexually interested in a beautiful woman, when nothing we know about Vulcans would imply that it's because of his species/race). How does Spock cope with the cultural expectations of Pon Farr when he knows he's gay? Bonus points for including how McCoy knows he's gay
3027. Star Trek: The Original Series, Spock, Humans assume that Vulcans disapprove of homosexuality. It's more complicated than that. claimed by shadowvalkyrie
3028. Star Trek: The Original Series, Spock, T'Pring divorced him because she realized he was gay.
3029. Star Trek: The Original Series, Spock, During a discussion about various species' attitudes toward sexualities the lecturer states that Vulcans would view homosexuality as illogical. Spock corrects this assumption with a lecture of his own on the subject of IDIC.
3030. Star Trek: The Original Series, the difficulties a genderless species inadvertently has when talking to the Enterprise crew.
3031. Star Trek: The Original Series, T'Pring, Vulcan culture never envisioned a situation where a woman could be mind-bonded to a man but could also be attracted to and desire to marry the sister of her male best friend. All T'Pring knows is that she, the woman she loves and her girlfriend's brother Stonn are in a situation not covered by tradition, protocol or logic, and there seems to be no way out.
3032. Star Trek: The Original Series, T'Pring, the reason she called challenge on Spock is that *she's* gay, and *female* homosexuality is taboo on Vulcan because it removes women from the available pool for men in a species where men will die without a monogamous life partner and most men are straight. Stonn could be a transman, a pre-transition transwoman, or just a friend she's using as cover.
3033. Star Trek: The Original Series, Yeoman Rand, She knows that everyone pretty much expects her to be the Captain's Girl, but it's the communications officer (Uhura) she's had her eye on. How does she balance the expectations of her workplace about what role she should play in her gender expression and her romantic attractions with her genuine self? What about the supposedly diversity-encouraging atmosphere of Starfleet makes her feel like she has to? Does it have anything to do with why she suddenly disappeared off the Enterprise and Captain Kirk had to go through a whole new rotation of assistants?
3034. Star Trek: TOS or XI, Human/Vulcan, gay/straight, male/female: Spock has been dealing with binaries all his life.
3035. Star Trek: Voyager, B'Elanna Torres, B'Elanna has enough issues being both human and Klingon. She doesn't think she can handle being attracted to both men and women, too.
3036. Star Trek: Voyager, B'Elanna Torres, B'Elanna has enough issues being both human and Klingon. She doesn't think she can handle being attracted to both men and women, too.
3037. Star Trek: Voyager, B'Elanna Torres, being not entirely Klingon or entirely Human has always been bad enough, so it's taken her this long to realise that's not all that feels wrong about the body she was born with.
3038. Star Trek: Voyager, B'Elanna Torres/Tom Paris, They are the queerest m/f couple ever, and it's kind of awesome.
3039. Star Trek: Voyager, B'Elanna Torres/Tom Paris, 'Next time, you carry the baby while I go on away missions.' 'Deal.' (Actual quote.) Adorable trans Tom babyfic?
3040. Star Trek: Voyager, Chakotay/Tom Paris, Sexual identity in the 24th century isn't much of an issue anymore, but someone had forgotten to tell Admiral Paris that. Chakotay deals with the fallout that this has on Tom and their relationship.
3041. Star Trek: Voyager, Janeway/Q, Janeway prefers women sexually. She has romantic feelings for a few men but they rarely get her really hot; she prefers strong loving friendships with men to actually having sex with them. 'I must deprive myself because I can't sleep with my second-in-command' is really a convenient fiction so she doesn't have to admit to Chakotay that although she loves him, she doesn't desire him. Q figures it out and calls her on it by taking female form.
3042. Star Trek: Voyager, Janeway/Seven or Janeway/Torres, In addition to being attracted to one of her crew members, Janeway must deal with whether being out will hurt her authority.
3043. Star Trek: Voyager, Kathryn Janeway, balancing her butch identity with avoiding the stereotype of a female command officer.
3044. Star Trek: Voyager, Kathryn Janeway/Betazoid OFC, The Federation needs a great lovestory after the horrors of the Dominion War, the reunion of Admiral Janeway and her Imzadi is just what the holo-Doctor ordered.
3045. Star Trek: Voyager, Kathryn Janeway/Seven of Nine, Captain Janeway has never questioned whether her interest in Seven of Nine is anything other than maternal until her crew starts doing it for her.
3046. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, Individuality is one thing, but human sexuality is quite another. Homosexuality is irrelevant and serves no purpose. Or at least that's what she tells herself to suppress the thoughts and urges she doesn't understand.
3047. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, it's taken time and some experimentation with men like Chakotay but Seven has finally figured out that she's a lesbian. Could happen back on Earth or in the alternate timeline where she actually *married* Chakotay.
3048. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, she thinks there are no potential mates for her aboard Voyager, because the Doctor didn't want to suggest to the woman he was hoping would choose him that there's more genders than his to consider. But Seven really isn't as ignorant as all that - it isn't going to take her long to explore the idea.
3049. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, she doesn't understand why dating went so badly when she was conforming to every required stereotype. When she's acting like herself, she doesn't conform to any at all - and everything happens by accident and works out perfectly. (Seven/Janeway, Seven/B'Elanna, Seven/whoever...)
3050. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, Seven has had so much difficulty becoming human again, that she put not feeling female off to 'just needing more time to settle into her skin' as the Doctor said. But that's not it.
3051. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, No, actually, Seven doesn't have to embrace sexuality in order to be human claimed by neth_dugan
3052. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine, as Seven adjusts to becoming human instead of borg and all the complexities that brings, Seven realises that ze is genderqueer.
3053. Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine/Kathryn Janeway, Janeway and/or Seven confronts the Doctor about just why he didn't include her own gender when he was teaching Seven how to date.
3054. Star Trek: Voyager, The Doctor, The Doc is very enthusiastic about his newfound [LGBTQIA+] identity. There are slideshows. Many slideshows.
3055. Star Trek: Voyager, The Doctor, post-Body And Soul - now that he's had a chance to experience living in a female form, he actually thinks he might prefer it.
3056. Star Trek: Voyager, The Doctor (EMH), He's spent so much time trying to get the crew to see him as a person in his own right, trying to *become* a person in his own right...does he dare admit that he is a she?
3057. Star Trek: Voyager, Tom Paris, In the 24th Century, no one cares who you love or if you choose to switch genders. Tom has a strong obsession over history and the past, after his trip to the 1990’s he considers the journey that LGBT people went through to reach that point and how things are taken for granted in his own time.
3058. Star Trek: Voyager, Tom Paris/Chakotay, Everyone is surprised when ladies’ man Tom Paris kisses Chakotay. Tom doesn’t get what the big deal is. Chakotay has to deal with the fact that his view of Tom has been wrong all along.
3059. Star Wars, Anakin Skywalker, Anakin sees life in binaries: good/evil, Loyalist/Separatist, male/female, straight/gay, etc. What happens when one of the binaries he takes for granted falls apart? (Anything from Padme mentioning an old girlfriend to Obi-Wan being trans to discovering that intersexuality exists.)
3060. Star Wars, Anakin Skywalker, The Jedi understood why Ani was raised as a boy on Tatooine, but thought she didn't need to hide that way in the Temple. Anakin doesn't think he is now or was then, and he's frustrated. Isn't the Force supposed to engage a Jedi's empathy? claimed by ion_bond
3061. Star Wars, Any Jedi, Attachment is forbidden - what's the view on casual sex? Does it matter who it's with?
3062. Star Wars, Han Solo is FtM. One of the reasons Chewbacca is his co-pilot is due to how Wookies perceive gender.
3063. Star Wars, Han Solo/Luke Skywalker, Corellians are open about all sexualities, but those from Tatooine are not. Can Han persuade Luke to enjoy what they could have together?
3064. Star Wars, Han Solo/Luke Skywalker, Corellians are open about all sexualities, but those from Tatooine are not. Can Han persuade Luke to enjoy what they could have together?
3065. Star Wars, Han Solo/Luke Skywalker, The Old Republic did not approve of homosexuality. Will the New Republic be the same?
3066. Star Wars, Mon Mothma, mentoring Leia in politics and rebellion reminds Mon of Padme, but she can't say anything about anything. Except perhaps that non-humans, women, and humans of color aren't the only groups Emperor Palpatine is oppressing (as if that weren't enough!). Bonus if Leia has trouble fitting into the Senate closet, because on Alderaan most people have no problem with a bisexual adoptee inheriting the throne.
3067. Star Wars EU, Thrawn/Pellaeon, Inappropriate relations with an alien could get him kicked out of the Imperial Navy, but relations with a male alien could get him executed.
3068. Star Wars X-Wing series, Wedge Antilles/Tycho Celchu, their friendship has always been closer than Wedge and Wes' or even Wes and Hobbie's.
3069. Stardust (movie), Captain Shakespeare, His crew are very protective of their captain, no matter how big and nasty the bigots are.
3070. Stardust (movie), Captain Shakespeare, Captain Shakespeare has been outed to his crew. How does he handle his personal life after that and how do things change?
3071. Stardust (movie), Captain Shakespeare has been outted to his crew. How does he handle his personal life after that and how do things change?
3072. Stardust (movie), Shakespeare/his first mate, the pirate tries to help Shakespeare to stop feeling ashamed of his sexuality.