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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riley37" data-source="post: 7430938" data-attributes="member: 6786839">"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The technology of changing the shape of the human body is getting more and more advanced; consider the difference between what's possible today, and what was possible when Gygax wrote 1E. The role of the Divine in that process is arguable, as with most matters involving the role of the Divine in the real world.Fiction sometimes follows reality, sometimes surges ahead. Consider the difference in gender roles in the real world, between the 1960s and the 1980s; then consider the differences in gender roles in Starfleet, between the era of Captain Kirk and the era of Captain Picard. What if Kirk had been the first Earth human to learn about the Trill symbiotes, and their relationship with their hosts's sex and gender?</blockquote>