Random plot bunny.
Jun. 15th, 2011 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyjanelly Another of those plot bunnies that I'll never have to write. I feel like I could flow a novel out of this outline.
This feels oddly familiar. I think I heard about a ST episode (next generation) because of the gender issues and stuff, but I don't think I ever saw it.
Planet _____ was one of the last colonized in Earth’s great expansion, in the hopeful days before the interplanetary civil war tore apart worlds and fleets. Humanity “mislaid” the trick to faster-than-light travel in the chaos and destruction. By the time they re-built and began to look outward from their day-to-day existence, the far-flung colonies had been orphaned for thousands of years.
Re-discovering a colony is always an adventure, Jared thinks. He’s been doing it for most of his life, first at his parents’ side and later with his own pod of explorers. It turns out that components of the FTL engines (which were used on one-way journeys for the colonists and used as the cores of their settlements) had certain mutagenic properties that didn’t show up in one or two generation, but in the isolated colonies, confronted with challenging or hostile environments and surrounded by alien flora and fauna, anything can happen.
All in all, the social and physical evolution on _______ isn’t that weird. So what if over half the population doesn’t choose what gender to be until after they meet the one they want to spend their lives with. Jared’s not sure how it works, but the change is more than ceremonial. Some physical change happens. Neutrals become men or women. Marry and have kids. Not so strange, really. It’s not like they inject their eggs into farm animals to reproduce (Planet Y) or have developed webbed membranes to glide from little cliff-side caves (Planet W).
They breathe air, walk on two legs, look basically human. They send a peaceful delegation to meet Jared’s. And that’s how he meets Jensen. Beautiful, graceful, fierce. One of the oldest Neutrals he’s seen and Jared wonders if it makes him bi or what, to be so attracted to a person without a gender. And he knows there’s no future in that attraction even if he acknowledges it, because ______ians don’t form same-sex relationships, so there’s no chance Jensen would choose to be male just to be with him.
This feels oddly familiar. I think I heard about a ST episode (next generation) because of the gender issues and stuff, but I don't think I ever saw it.
Planet _____ was one of the last colonized in Earth’s great expansion, in the hopeful days before the interplanetary civil war tore apart worlds and fleets. Humanity “mislaid” the trick to faster-than-light travel in the chaos and destruction. By the time they re-built and began to look outward from their day-to-day existence, the far-flung colonies had been orphaned for thousands of years.
Re-discovering a colony is always an adventure, Jared thinks. He’s been doing it for most of his life, first at his parents’ side and later with his own pod of explorers. It turns out that components of the FTL engines (which were used on one-way journeys for the colonists and used as the cores of their settlements) had certain mutagenic properties that didn’t show up in one or two generation, but in the isolated colonies, confronted with challenging or hostile environments and surrounded by alien flora and fauna, anything can happen.
All in all, the social and physical evolution on _______ isn’t that weird. So what if over half the population doesn’t choose what gender to be until after they meet the one they want to spend their lives with. Jared’s not sure how it works, but the change is more than ceremonial. Some physical change happens. Neutrals become men or women. Marry and have kids. Not so strange, really. It’s not like they inject their eggs into farm animals to reproduce (Planet Y) or have developed webbed membranes to glide from little cliff-side caves (Planet W).
They breathe air, walk on two legs, look basically human. They send a peaceful delegation to meet Jared’s. And that’s how he meets Jensen. Beautiful, graceful, fierce. One of the oldest Neutrals he’s seen and Jared wonders if it makes him bi or what, to be so attracted to a person without a gender. And he knows there’s no future in that attraction even if he acknowledges it, because ______ians don’t form same-sex relationships, so there’s no chance Jensen would choose to be male just to be with him.
