For me this is one of the most fascinating episodes of TNG as far as the subject it dealt with, perceived sexual deviance, on the part of a majority, which in this case is androgynous and feels that distinctions between the sexes are primitive. But the questions asked by the character Soren during her trial in which she admits being female with urges from relationships with men are so similar to what LGBTQ people are forced by the majority heterosexual population today, and even more so when it first premiered. I am heterosexual, married, and a career military officer, but I am an LGBTQ ally. This show was one of a series of events that caused me to reevaluate how I thought of LGBTQ people and helped me become a better friend to my LGBTQ friends and relatives. The sad thing is that Soren's people reverse her progress and force her into what today would be called LGBTQ Conversion Therapy, something that is discredited and slowly but surely being outlawed in the United States. The episode was aired a decade and a half before Obergfell v. Hodges and the end of the Defense Of Marriage Act. It is a powerful episode.
Review of The Outcast
