SO if your not familiar with the episode; Picard and crew ends up rescuing a giant captive malnourished space jellyfish, after another giant space jellyfish shows up pissed the first, is malnourished and in captivity.
At the very end of the episode, the two giant space jellyfish meet; and touch tentacles. AND Picard even has a line that they must be "Mates".
HOW Picard jumps to this conclusion is left unsaid. Obviously the space jellyfish know each other, but it's not obvious their relationship isn't parent <-> child , or sibling <-> sibling, but whatever.
On this particularly rewatch however, I was like: "HUH, I don't remember this giant space jellyfish being this pink."
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I didn't think much about it. Except I went spelunking online on Memory Alpha, for extra behind the scenes tidbits on the episode. (As I often do. )
AND Memory Alpha pointed out to me, that both giant space jellyfish were much more BLUE in the original release. The remaster for the BluRay DELIBERATELY changed the coloring of one of these creatures.
NOW; im pretty sure no one thought the space jellyfish were gay back in 1987
BUT someone or some group of someones were awfully concerned these space jellyfish were not presenting as straight back when they did these BluRay remasters circa 2012.
AND that disappoints and frustrates me greatly.
#lgbtq #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG (finished).