The Outcast

This is one of the best episodes of Trek. I dont normally go for anything to do with gay rights or LGBT, I am usually indifferent to anything like this. I have seen this episode a few times and never really thought much about it, but this time it seemed to register with me and I liked it for its inventiveness and the way it totally turns around the way of looking at same sex attraction. It takes the antithesis of same sex attraction and makes the subject no sex attraction, and being punished for opposite sex attraction. It puts forward the idea of it not being normal to be attracted to the opposite sex but of it being subject to ridicule, prejudice, and punishment, much like same sex attraction has been and still is in some countries. It certainly made me think about how gay people are treated and feel.