#jaqueline kim

[chernobog13]

"It wouldn't be the Enterprise without a Sulu at the helm."

Jaqueline Kim as Ensign Demora Sulu, Captain Hikaru Sulu's daughter, in Star Trek Generations (1994)

[girl4music]

I actually recall now being at the 2022 convention and asking Jaqueline Kim about what she thought about Xena and Lao Ma’s relationship. Whether she herself interpreted or perceived it to be romantic/sexual and she just looked at me and laughed: of course she did.

You can’t portray homoerotic scenes like the ones between Xena and Lao Ma with the sensual hair washing and the levitating around each other with clothing fabric and not interpret that romantically.

I felt dumb. But she was a good sport about it. There was so much we talked about at that convention that I had honestly forgotten all about her telling me that.

It just makes me laugh though when people say that Xena - as in the show - wasn’t gay or queer. They only seem to be only talking about Xena and Gabrielle when they say that. What about the other female characters in the show that weren’t just coded as gay or queer. They canonically were. Especially Brunhilda.

Lao Ma was coded as bisexual yet she doesn’t eat meat. Oh that joke. That joke will always be top class!