I had forgotten about this episode!
In my personal experience, true poly couples often act the way that Phlox/Feezal do around a potential new partner. In all cases I've seen they respect the boundaries that the new partner sets, like here Trip feels weird and expresses that later in the episode, so they back off.
Poly relationships would have been a really cool dynamic to explore on Enterprise though, so it's somewhat of a missed opportunity. Oh well.
"You know what she's called? Incontinentia.... Incontinentia Buttocks WILL YOU STOP LAUGHING!?"
That scene is always able to make me laugh.
Don't worry about it.
Tech bro billionaires get fucked. These guys remade your bullshit product BETTER and did it in CHINA! WITH A BOX OF(financial) SCRAPS!
Love me some K6BD!
The sanctioned action is to Cut.
The species in question is called the Affront, which is a name they took on willingly. The Affront know that most of the galaxy thinks they're barbaric and pointlessly gruesome, and they revel in it. Think of them like a race of Klingon Donald Trumps. They're also very clearly not good guys and are not presented as such in the novel.
The main character I'd hesitate to call a hero, because he's not. His wish to join the Affront is seen as extraordinarily odd by his colleagues and the Culture in general, who only tolerate the Affront in order to avoid drawing them into war.
I can't read the full article on mobile but the premise is stupid. I've read most of the Culture novels and none of them felt sexist to me.
This is the best answer because all of these other fictional places can be replicated with 100% accuracy using Culture tech.
Not pictured: The dynamic and eternal back-and-forth in the comments section of that article where Wikipedia purist nerds do battle with Wikipedia's cadre of silly gooses.
Purists hate that "cetacean" is used here and feel that the silly gooses are diluting the information on Wikipedia for a pun. They also complain that visitors to that page will be confused by the term, and that it will cause the social credit of Wikipedia as a whole to wane in the eyes of the world.
The gooses want the purist nerds to take a chill pill. I'm with the gooses. If the purists knew how often scribes in ancient times doodled pointless things like mounted snail combat and wildly exaggerated dick drawings on illuminated manuscripts then I'd presume they'd be okay with allowing a minor joke like this one, but I guess you can't please everyone.
I hope not. We need an actual progressive to try and run. Newsom IMO is a corporate centrist posing as a coastal liberal, in the same vein as Feinstein. Lots of liberal friends but when the chips are down they choose to support big businesses and not the people living in their state.
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
Coffee would have made me an apostate too. Damn, I love coffee. Live and drink, friend.
mustard on the beat, yo