Thereβs that DS9 episode where Jadzia risks exile from Trill society to revisit an old relationship, and, if not necessarily trans, it reads pretty obviously as a queer allegory.
Oh, queer, sure. Star Trek has had plenty of queer relationships; she wasnβt the first. Trans is a whole different thing, though; queer is who youβre attracted to; trans is a self-identity topic. Trans says nothing about who youβre attracted to; you can be a gay trans person, a hetero trans person, a bi or asexual trans person. Trans(sexual) is about what plumbing you feel you should have, not whether youβre hetero or homo.
I think they are talking about βRejoinedβ s4e5? https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0708588/?ref_=tt_mv_close
Thatβs the episode. It got a fair bit of press when it aired due to the βlesbian kissβ, which probably sounds ridiculous now, but that was likeβ¦wow, literally two generations ago. It was a wild time, it was just a year earlier that the U.S. military released its official policy on sexual orientation, which basically amounted to pretending that nobody is gay. On a personal note, I remember crying like a baby at the end of this episode when I first saw it and not understanding why it affected me so deeply. And holy crap, Iβm now realizing it was my subconscious screaming βThatβs you, dummy!!β
