But they includes more than a few turn-off as well. During a funeral service Captain Riker engages in a act of ceremonal cannibalism, which I thought was very out of charactor.
I wouldn't say that. Riker has always been portrayed as a character who's very open to alien value systems.
And was it really "cannibalism?" Sure, he put a bit of the dead crewperson's ashes on his tongue. But how many times do you imagine that, at ceremonies where people's ashes get scattered to the winds, some of the guests end up inhaling or swallowing some of the ashes accidentally? And let's not forget that the matter in a dead body will be reintroduced into the ecosystem through decay processes and end up in plants and animals that we eat. As Hamlet said, "A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm." In that sense, we're all cannibals.
Orions' Hounds as allegory for the evil hunting of whales couldn't of been more heavy handed.
Oh, it definitely could've been far more heavy-handed. I made my best effort to present both sides of the issue fairly, even though I personally couldn't have disagreed more with the Pa'haquel's views and lifestyle. If I'd wanted a one-sided polemic, the Pa'haquel would've been overt, irredeemable villains, there wouldn't have been any noble members of their society like Qui'hibra and his daughter, and I would've said they were doing it merely for sport rather than depending on the hunt for their very survival.
And as other have noted, the series could easily be nick-named either sex trek, or gay trek - I thought it was a bit much - and I'm gay.
Remind me -- have we actually seen any gay sex scenes in
Titan? I don't recall any. We've seen Keru grieving for his lost lifemate. We've seen Norellis flirting with Keru and failing miserably. We've seen vague hints of flirtation between Keru and Radowski (and with an unnamed person at the end of
Sword of Damocles who may or may not have been Radowski).
Over a Torrent Sea alluded to Aili Lavena being bisexual (or rather omnisexual), but only in passing. I think maybe Loolooa Tereshini might have been hinted to be lesbian, but I could be wrong.
On the other hand, we have Riker and Troi as a married couple, and they've had multiple love scenes together. We have Tuvok married to T'Pel. We have Olivia and Axel Bolaji, another heterosexual married couple. We've had a liaison between Vale and Jaza. We have Pazlar and Ra-Havreii in a heavy relationship, and before that, we've seen Ra-Havreii involved casually with Lavena and having casual sex and flirtations with many female crewmates. We've seen Dakal beginning a relationship with Hsuuri. We've seen Tamen Gibruch flirting with Pava. We've seen Ree flirting with a female alien.
So while there's a pretty healthy amount of sex and flirtation going on aboard
Titan, it's overwhelmingly heterosexual. We've seen multiple scenes and storylines revolving around heterosexual relationships and liaisons, but we have yet to see a single scene focusing directly on an active, current romance or relationship between two people of the same sex. If anything,
Titan falls well behind
Vanguard, in which two of the major female characters have had an ongoing sexual relationship including at least one bedroom scene.
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i wish they make a tv or movie out of it ! love don
After you read Sword Of Damocles, you'll probably want to get TNG: Greater Than The Sum to get you up to speed on the TNG ongoing storyline (that book is a thorough introduction that'll bring you up to speed on anything important you missed) and then Destiny will knock your socks off.
