ENG 200 Blog 4

I will be discussing an episode of Star Trek that we have already watched for class and that i will be using for my essay.  In star trek enterprise season 2 episode 22 named cogenitor, commander tucker is intrigued by the vissian’s. The vissian’s use a cogenitor to reproduce and that is all they are used for. The vissian’ s believe in a third gender “The cogenitor”. This opens up the door to cultural commentary by discussing a different gender and do they still have equal rights as the rest of the population. Since the cogentior is treated as an animal and has virtual no rights but as a reproductive system on the vissian ship tucker decides to try and teach her how to read. By doing this tucker is battling the social problem of equal rights for all not just some of the population. Tucker even goes as far to take brain scans of all the vissans that broad the Enterprise including the cogentior and there is no difference in how the cogentior thinks or learns from the rest of the vissans. This proves that the cogentior should not be locked up like an animal but should receive the same rights as everyone else. This is the big cultural problem that this episode tries to tackle. Commander tucker believes that everyone should be treated as equal no matter social status or gender. In the end the Vissians do not see eye to eye with tucker and take the cogenitor back to their ship after trying to seek asylum in the Enterprise. Through later radio transmissions tucker finds out the cogenitor has committed suicide.