The Outcast

This one is as close to a gay episode as Star Trek will ever get: Two aliens from a race that has no gender have disappeared in a shuttle into what is referred to as Null Space.

Several of the aliens are on Enterprise; one works with Will Riker in the shutle to find them. While enroute, she tells him that she is really female. She is living on a world where the people evolved into no gender from what was formally two genders, male and female.

People like her live secretive lives, afraid of being discovered, and she knew she was different all her life. This is how I grew up, too, being gay, and I can totally relate!

Anyway, they find the missing aliens. A romance begins between Riker and the alien female. Her boss discovers this and the poor woman is arrested. Riker beams down and enters the court room.. he tries to accept the blame for what happened between them, but the woman he loves - Soran - won't let him lie for her. She tells the cort that she is like evryone else but just different in the partner she seeks... the judge won't hear it, and Soran is taken to later be changed into a non gender person..

Riker and Worf later find her and take her into the woods - but it is too late!

She has been changed into a no gender person...

Riker returns to Enterprise, broken hearted.

Excellent episode.

If they wouldn't actually show gay people on Star Trek,at least they could make an allusion towards gays.. and, we gays have been "translating " hetero love stories on movies, in books and on tv into gay love all our lives, anyway.

My mom watched this episode with me and she got the connection. She liked it a lot.

"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your

death bring you the peace you never found in

life." - Tuvok.