Questions about the Cogentior
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:44 pm
Hi all. We have recently had two different takes on the episode "Cogenitor": Alelou's missing scene and Silverbullet's.
Relating to those two stories, and of course to the original episode: Here are my discussion questions:
I will put on my administrator hat now, and say preemptively, lets not get into how a three-gendered species "does it." Not out here on the forums anyway. Silverbullet wants to be in on this discussion, but he is away on vacation for a few days. He will join you later!
Relating to those two stories, and of course to the original episode: Here are my discussion questions:
1) Did Trip feel guilty for what he did after Archer reprimanded him? He had been defending himself nonstop up until the end when he finds out the Cogenitor committed suicide, so that episode really doesn't tell us if he felt responsible. Does a later episode tell us that?
2) SHOULD he have felt guilty?
3) Was the Cogenitor situation (the way the Cogenitor was treated in that society) a "natural" result of the biology of that species or was it unnatural, like Human slavery?
4) The Cogenitors are born to females in a 3% ratio. What happens to the children? How and where are cogentitor children raised? Are they sent off to a compound at a young age?
I will put on my administrator hat now, and say preemptively, lets not get into how a three-gendered species "does it." Not out here on the forums anyway. Silverbullet wants to be in on this discussion, but he is away on vacation for a few days. He will join you later!