[ SECRET POST #4140 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4140 ⌋

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Comments

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Sure, I think some het ships are so far removed from what we're shown, they might as well be an AU.

But a key difference is that it's often the case that the heterocentrism of the canon world is so deep that LGBTQ people are pushed completely out of the picture. Star Trek:TOS has many examples where the heterosexuality of everyone involved is just magically assumed. Aliens give Captain Pike a choice between three women, and the aliens reveal that there's a potential love triangle suppressed under Starfleet discipline.

Often when we're "queering" something through fanwork we're deliberately recreating the setting to be more inclusive of LGBTQ people than was actually shown. For Pike to choose either Number One or Colt would have been expected. (He is mated to Vina when The Cage was rewritten.) For Number One, Colt, or Vina to choose each other is a possibility that requires revising multiple ideas about the Federation. (Some of those ideas have been retconned into the setting by DS9, Discovery, and the reboot films.)

Tolkien is an even better example where LGBTQ people are completely nonexistent among elves, along with just about anything other than true pure Catholic-ordained loving marriage.