Fuck you, Brannon Braga
So, last night I watched Enterprise Season 2 Episode 22 "Cogenitor" and I'm pretty furious. Spoilers below. Enterprise makes first contact with a new species called the Vissians. They are more technologically advanced than humans, although they're not as interested in exploring very far from home. They have 3 sexes: male, female, and "cogenitor". The latter makes up only 3% of the population, but they are necessary in the reproductive process. However, that's the only thing they are allowed to do. They are not allowed to be educated or even to leave their room unsupervised by the couple they're assigned to. They don't even have names. They are slaves. Trip meets a Vissian couple and their cogenitor and is rightfully weirded out by how dehumanized (or devissianized) the cogenitor is. The couple refers to the cogenitor with the pronoun "it", and Trip uses "she". The cogenitor never expresses a preference for pronouns. (I will us...