For Jenny

[podling]

So I often look at odd news and opinions on various news sites. And I often
come across things that are interesting. But this one... well, this one dreadpiratetait wanted me to post. So anyway, here we go, a commentary
on Star
Trek and pedophiles. Anyway, I found it interesting...

Comments

[crowyhead.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had a lot of the same thoughts, although I was just watching the first seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and noticed similar things about the characters' sexuality (a lot of sex seems to happen either under the control of aliens or on the holodeck). But yeah, it really does kind of smack of urban myth.

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

Yes, though on NG and other ST spin-offs there are genuine romantic attachments - Troy and Riker, for a start - against which to measure the others, which seem to be more parables about manipulation or foolishness. I wonder what percentage of the non-paedophilic population are Trekkers? It's odd, though, that my father never mentioned it - he was Juvenile Liason for years, and ran many a child abuse investigation, and never once did he mention an overwhelming trait other than a tendency for paedophiles to be white, middle-aged, middle class men who had relationship problems and usually been abused themselves.