Poll Realworld Consequences to 2 half-naked Men rubbing Gel into each other's hairy chests, during Decon?

[Guy Gardener]

Well it's medical ain't it.

The buddy system.

You give each other a reach around, or some stray microbe kills the rest of the crew three days later.

I'm not saying that there wasn't any boy on boy, but was there?

I googled, and the closest I saw to guy on guy, was Archer rubbing down Porthos.



After Shuttle Pod 1, I doubt Trip and Malcolm wanted to look at each other for a another space-minute, god forbid decontaminate each other's ass clefts.

I am of course complaining about 20th century ideals impacting on a 21st century show set in the 22nd century.

Talk about passing the buck.

 

[F. King Daniel]

"While you're down there, Malcolm..."

Weirdly they kinda stopped using the decon chamber. I guess they just decided swimming with disease was preferable to lubing each other up.

 

[JasonJ]

Thankfully they technobabble-invented the biofilters on the transporters circa TNG. Made all that decon gel completely unnecessary.

Otherwise, think of the wasted man-hours spent by high ranking (and in this century highly paid) bridge crew, sitting in the decon chamber doing nothing.

 

[Anna Yolei]

"While you're down there, Malcolm..."

Weirdly they kinda stopped using the decon chamber. I guess they just decided swimming with disease was preferable to lubing each other up.

More like they needed the stage to become the new Mission Control Center they added in season three.

Good riddance. They managed to still get T'Pol nekkid without it anyway.

 

[Long Syntax]

Unfortunately I can't un-see this one. Also unfortunate that I was just going to lunch.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

We all know Reed and Hayes were rubbing each other down in decon at every opportunity they had.

 

[Cyfa]

I'd like to think this happened. Perhaps not as sexualised as the Trip-T'Pol rub-downs, but if those two had to do it, why shouldn't two other people, whether they're of the same or a different sex or gender? As for the response: I would hope that there'd be no change whatsoever, but the cynic in me isn't convinced - even a decade or so on...

 

[Anna Yolei]

We all know Reed and Hayes were rubbing each other down in decon at every opportunity they had.

Reed should've been the one disrobing for Hayes instead of T'Pol/Trip in Harbinger, IMNSHO!

 

[F. King Daniel]

It would have given Enterprise some desperately needed publicity - just look at all the articles about Sulu in Beyond, and that came like a decade after guy characters in TV shows became common.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

^ What about Sulu and his brother?

 

[SPCTRE]

 

[F. King Daniel]

^ What about Sulu and his brother?

Dude if you squeeze your brother's butt like that you've got a problem

 

[Guy Gardener]

Dude if you sneeze into your brother's butt like that, you've got a problem

FTFY.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Ewe.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Stupid autocorrect. Eww.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Dude if you squeeze your brother's butt like that you've got a problem

Hikaru didn't, they hugged, then he hugged his niece, then they went off to catch up. Nothing about that scene said romantic/life partners to me.

 

[Tenacity]

Weirdly they kinda stopped using the decon chamber

I personally make the assumption that they continued with the decon chamber and the goo, just the stopped showing it on screen. If you think about it the decon chamber was a good idea, probably should of had a version of it inside the air lock.

Nothing about that scene said romantic/life partners to me.

Not to me either, I knew there was going to be a "Sulu's gay, look everyone" scene in the movie, but at the time I assumed that that scene wasn't it and it was only at the end of the movie that I realize that either that scene was it or they simply didn't include it.

 

[Seven of Five]

I'm replying to this a little late I think, yet I do think Reed and Trip rubbing each other down would have been a different show, and yet I still would have watched. Hell throw Mayweather and Archer in as well.

After watching Broken Bow yesterday, I forgot how much strange zooming and focusing there was on T'Pol being rubbed down, but then when it was Trip's turn there was hardly anything. Meh.

 

[ihno]

Hikaru didn't, they hugged, then he hugged his niece, then they went off to catch up. Nothing about that scene said romantic/life partners to me.

Star Trek is art and they knew that the first gay couple had to be special so that the coming generations can be proud when they look back at this special moment.

So the artists decided not to throw it at the audience faces with a kiss or "I love you" or "I missed you" like you see it in other movies or as you saw it first on Buffy 20 years ago. That's all profanity.

So they made it special. Sulu simply rubs his husband's back for five times not only in the most meaningful manner possible but also in the rhythm of "Over the rainbow".

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