Clicked on one of those astroturfed youtube vids of a battle involving the Kaylon or whatever and I kept getting bombarded with 'The Orville' Youtube shorts in the days since. One of them was about that Abortus guy and his husband fighting over their kid's gender.
I never got passed episode three or four of the first season, so I had no idea. These are such thinly veiled Hollywoke talking points and specific political pet peeves. You must be absolutely blind to not see what was going on. Charlize 'My Sons Are Girls Now' Theron was also on the show.
And this microwaved slop was supposed to be the acceptable normie alternative to Star Trek Disco/STD?
I liked the Krill. They were a xenophobic and theocratic empire, and after one of them honey potted Mcfarlane's character and had a half-breed bastard, there was a moral debate after she kept the child hidden away Flowers in the Attic style. Seth was aghast at this, and the Krill woman said it was less cruel than what the humans do: abortion. She then demonstrated what happens to Krills who have illegal abortions, their DNA is sampled, a computer simulation of what their child might have been like like is ran in a holodeck, and the parents are forced to interact with it as it asks why they killed it. It was amazing. Obviously this was meant to paint the Krill as evil, but it was the most based thing I've ever seen in a while.
Some of the species are conceptually quite funny and interesting to consider. The Moclan only urinating once every 3 years or something and so making it a special ritual conducted on their homeworld with close friends and family for example. It takes biological extremes even found on our own planet and then draws them out to sort of parody levels but still within some realm of sci-fi make believe. There is some kind of deer that only urinates once every month or something, smells God-awful when it does unsurprisingly, but it does so because water is that rare where it lives it needs that conservation of hydration, so it's not as if the Moclan concept is without some basis.
I loved that episode.
It really highlights the leftist mentality, they didn't give a shit about their child until it said they would have loved them. And realizing what they did is somehow supposed to be the ultimate inhumane torture.
I didn't think it was possible to be that narcissistic, but then again I'm not psychopathic.
When you compare it to the off-brand Federation's attitude on eating meat it's especially bad. Killing an animal for food, even when you're stranded on a planet away from replicators, is seen as morally equivalent as being a serial killer. But abortion is still an accepted thing, even though the advances in medical technology should have made abortion as obsolete as raising livestock for food.
Oh yeah. The fake federation has the perfect socialist system. No money. Free education, food, housing, & medical treatment. They even have halo decks for sexual encounters.
And they are still pro-murder.
To the OP's original gripe: the mocklans live in a society where transgenderism is forced. The society is all male, because all females are peer pressured and groomed to be F2M trannies. The 'controversial leftist' point of view was drums rolls People should be the gender they are born as, and we shouldn't force children to transition.
In execution that's how it turned out, but it was written as a feminist message. The Mocklans are so misogynistic they won't even allow women to exist! Which goes to show that feminism and transgenderism are mutually exclusive.
As I understood it, the kid wanted to be 'her true self', whereas in Walnut society, everyone was male, and the females were genetic anomalies and biologically unnecessary for reproduction. The message was that the kid should just be herself and express her 'true gender self', going against the customs and norms of Walnut society. The stigma of being a biological female should be disregarded.
This is a pro-trans message. In the views of trenders, everyone is 'assigned' a gender at birth and this is considered a 'crime against humanity', because some may not be the gender that they were 'assigned'. This is similar to walnut society, where everyone is supposed to be male, but a few are 'genetic females', and they will get 'assigned' the male gender, regardless, which is considered a 'crime against sentient beings' by the pro-trans writers of The Orville.
Did the girl even know though? It's been a while since I saw it, but I remember a quiet confused child surrounded by adults; parents, crew, doctors, captains, court, society, hermit cat lady, famous authors, etc all having their own points of view and trying to force it on her without consideration to what she wanted. My interpretation was both sides acting poorly but no one I've met who watched it sees it that way, they all seem to pick a side to agree with.
It's a politicized issue meant to explore the current practices as seen in Western countries, where Mengele-style medical experiments are conducted on human children and encouraged to do so by left-liberal elites.
McFarlane is a left-liberal elite.