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Within the fictional Star Wars universe, the term Sith is used to describe two separate but related groups. The most common use of the word applies to a cult of warrior priests devoted to the dark side of the Force, serving as the evil counterparts of the Jedi Knights. This article deals primarily with this group, the leaders of which were known as "Sith Lords."
The second group was a near-human Sith enslaved by the aforementioned cult, who later took the name of this race as their own. (See List of Star Wars races)
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The first use of the word Sith was in the script for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, as a title for Darth Vader, the "Dark Lord of the Sith." George Lucas did not explain in the script what exactly this meant, however. Early works of Expanded Universe fiction interpreted the term "Lord of the Sith," under the guidance of Lucas, as implying that there was some sort of group that Darth Vader was lord over, and from this created the story of the Sith race, who were enslaved by early practitioners of the dark side. For a decade or more additional fictional works fleshed this story out, elaborating on how, once this race had faded to obscurity, the word Sith remained the name of the villains in George Lucas's prequel Star Wars films. However, the word "Sith" was never mentioned in the original trilogy.
Sith Lords are devoted to the dark side of the Force and are expected to draw on their anger, fear, and hatred in order to gain power. The Sith therefore maintain a certain psychological isolation where they continue to hold themselves above all others.
The Sith Code was the mantra that reinforced the core beliefs of the Sith Order. This code was developed many millennia before the Star Wars films take place, and was taught specifically as a foundation of Sith Philosophy at the Sith Academy on Korriban as far back as the Old Republic:
Another expression of Sith philosophy related to this "code" can be found in the PC video game Star Wars: TIE Fighter. An agent of Emperor Palpatine, providing secondary mission objectives, makes the statement: "Do not let your anger blind you. Rather, let it consume you and in the purity of your hatred you will find the deaths of your enemies."
According to Expanded Universe fiction, the Sith Order, or cult, was first established when dissident Jedi came to believe that "true" power was achieved not through reflective meditation, as taught by their Jedi Masters, but through emotion. The tension between the Jedi and these dissident "Dark Jedi" grew until conflict erupted, seven thousand years before the Battle of Yavin and the events of A New Hope. This conflict, called the Hundred-Year Darkness, the Second Great Schism of the Jedi Order, led to the Dark Jedi being banished by the Old Republic. These outcasts found a new home on the distant planet of Korriban, a desolate world inhabited by the relatively primitive Sith people. However, the Force flowed strongly with the Sith, allowing them to create their own brand of black magic. The Dark Jedi saw this as an opportunity to gain additional power. Using their training in the Force, the Dark Jedi amazed the Sith and elevated themselves to god-like status on Korriban, becoming the rulers of the Sith people. As years passed, and interbreeding occurred between the Dark Jedi and the Sith, the term "Sith" came to mean not only the original near-human inhabitants of Korriban, but their Dark Jedi masters as well. It is from this rise to power and integration into Sith culture that the term Dark Lord of the Sith was first conceived as a title bestowed upon the leader of the Sith Empire by a council of lesser Sith Lords.
In 5,000 BBY, the Republic rediscovered the Sith and the Great Hyperspace War began. It ended with Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow hiding in suspended animation on Yavin 4, his great war fleets destroyed. Within 10 years, the Sith Empire was all but annihilated.
Centuries later, a Jedi Knight named Freedon Nadd fell to the dark side. On Yavin 4, he awakened former Dark Lord Naga Sadow, who trained him in the ways of the Sith. Though Sadow's definite fate is not known, it is believed that he perished and his spirit was destroyed at his pupil's hand. Freedon Nadd used his newfound powers to conquer the Onderon system. But Freedon Nadd's extraordinary reign of power eventually came to a close. His death created a great power vacuum all throughout the galaxy. His dark gloomy tomb, constructed on Dxun and greatly tainted by the dark side, would remain an outpost for Sith lords for many years to come.
Sith teachings would bring constant civil war throughout their civilization however, as the primal instinct of their teachings was based upon the principle that they must continually prove their strength against each other or even challenging their masters.
Four hundred years after Nadd's death, the Jedi Exar Kun sought out his tomb, a place strong in the dark side. Nadd's spirit materialized and succeeded in corrupting Kun, but was eventually destroyed by his student. Exar Kun was pronounced the new Dark Lord of the Sith by the ghost of the ancient Dark Lord Marka Ragnos. As his first apprentice he took another fallen Jedi, Ulic Qel-Droma, and the Great Sith War began. Although many Jedi turned to the dark side and still more were killed, Exar Kun was finally defeated when Ulic realized the error of his ways and led the Old Republic's forces to Kun's stronghold on Yavin 4. Using the drained life energies of his Massassi warriors, Kun shed his physical body and imprisoned his spirit within the walls of Yavin 4's Massassi temples. His ghost, driven half-mad by millennia of isolation, was destroyed by a group of Luke Skywalker's students thousands of years later. Most of what remained of his Sith Brotherhood by the end of the Great Sith War is believed to have formed an organization known as the Mecrosa Order, which was hunted down by the Jedi in a purge known as the Cleansing of the Nine Houses.
Less than four decades later, the Jedi Revan and Malak, heroes of the Mandalorian War (a bloody conflict instigated by an unidentified group within the Unknown Regions known only as the "True Sith"), fell to the dark side and founded a new Sith Empire. Using the ancient Rakatan Star Forge factory, they built a massive war fleet and began attacking the Old Republic. Thus began the second Sith War, later called the Jedi Civil War (and, still later, the War of the Star Forge), a conflict that proved even more devastating than Kun's war as more Jedi fell to the dark side, were killed in battle, or were murderered by Sith Assassins. Revan was the greatest military genius the Jedi had ever seen. It was through his cunning alone that the Mandalorian Wars had been won, as the Old Republic soon discovered. During the Mandalorian Wars, Revan and Malak had discovered a mysterious force called the so-called True Sith in the Unknown Regions, and were therefore careful to preserve the Republic's shipyards to use against this threat once they had conquered the galaxy. After an attempted coup by Malak, however, Revan's mind was destroyed and he was captured by the Jedi. He was re-trained in their ways and sent against his traitorous apprentice. Taking up the mantle of Dark Lord, Malak redoubled his empire's offenses against the Old Republic, no longer caring about preserving his enemy's resources. Following a long and arduous quest for the five Star Maps that would lead him to the Sith's stronghold, the new Revan led a frontal assault on the Star Forge. He battled his way through the Forge's droid army and legions of Sith and Dark Jedi. After redeeming Malak's apprentice, Bastila Shan, he slew Malak himself in a final confrontation between the two old friends, allowing the Old Republic to destroy the Star Forge and win the day.
Despite this great victory won for the Old Republic by Revan, the galaxy soon grew even darker. Barely a hundred Jedi remained after the Jedi Civil War, and those who did soon found their ranks thinning at an alarming rate. Everywhere Jedi congregated, they were murdered, struck down by an invisible enemy who, incredibly enough, was somehow attacking them through the Force itself. Darth Nihilus, the Lord of Hunger, and Darth Sion, Lord of Pain, were students of Revan's former Jedi Master, Kreia (now a Sith called Darth Traya, Lady of Betrayal), had begun a shadow war against the surviving Jedi. Despite their incredible powers, they did not believe themselves strong enough to defeat the Jedi in the same kind of open warfare employed by Revan and Malak. (Revan himself had disappeared into the Unknown Regions a year after the destruction of the Star Forge, hoping to put an end to the ever-present threat posed by the mysterious True Sith, and has not been heard from since.)
Five years after Malak's defeat on the Star Forge, a Jedi exile who had served Revan as a general during the Mandalorian Wars returned from the Outer Rim to find the Jedi Order virtually extinct. Thought to be the last of the Jedi by Nihilus and Sion, the exile was hunted mercilessly by Sith Assassins from planet to planet as the "last of the Jedi" tracked down the surviving members of the Jedi Council. In the end, several of these Jedi were killed, but the exile managed to turn the tide against the shadow Sith, killing Nihilus, Sion, and Traya in battle, thereby ending their Jedi purge and giving the Jedi Order a chance to rebuild.
In modern history texts, the Great Sith War, the Cleansing of the Nine Houses, the Mandalorian Wars, and the War of the Star Forge are often grouped together under the collective appellation of "the Old Sith Wars."
Around the time of the Jedi Civil War, the coming of the Sith'ari, an ancient Sith prophecy, became somewhat well known in Darth Revan's Sith Empire. The Sith'ari was said to be a perfect being who would rise to power and bring balance to the Force. According to prophecy, the Sith'ari would rise up and destroy the Sith, but in the process would return to lead the Sith and make them stronger than ever before. It is believed that the prophecy of the Sith Sith'ari and the prophecies of the Jedi Chosen One refer to the same individual; namely Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, who made the Sith stronger than ever by destroying the Jedi Knights. He later destroyed the Sith when he betrayed and killed Palpatine, thus fulfilling the ancient prophecy of the Sith'ari.
Slowly, over the next thousand years, the Jedi Order rebuilt itself back to its former strength. Then, some 2,000 years before the Battle of Yavin, yet another Jedi, chafing under the restrictions of the Jedi Council, fell to the dark side, stole a Sith Holocron, renamed himself "Darth Ruin," formed a new Sith Order, and began recruiting others to his cause. This spawned a new series of conflicts, called the New Sith Wars, which lasted for a millennium.
However, the Sith very nearly proved to be their own undoing. Hungry for power, they turned on each other, all but destroying their order. The survivors reformed under the leadership of Lord Kaan, calling themselves "the Brotherhood of Darkness." To appease his disheartened servants, Kaan abandoned the millennia-old tradition of one ruling Dark Lord and granted the title to a good number of his followers, though very few of them were truly deserving of it.
The final conflict of the New Sith Wars, the War of Light and Dark or the Light and Darkness War (sometimes also referred to, as Exar Kun's war had been, as the Great Sith War), came to a head in the titanic seventh Battle of Ruusan, in which the Jedi Lord Hoth and the Army of Light clashed with Lord Kaan and the Brotherhood of Darkness for the last time. In the end, a deranged Kaan activated a thought bomb, an ancient Sith technique that sapped the life energy of all Force-sensitives in the vicinity. Both armies were all but destroyed, and only one Sith Lord survived: Darth Bane.
To guard against the Sith again engaging in fratricidal internecine war or losing sight of their "ideals" again, Bane took only one apprentice, starting a "one master, one apprentice" tradition to prevent the Sith from destroying themselves again. "Two there should be; no more, no less," he is said to have explained; "One to embody power, the other to crave it." He also restarted the tradition of passing the name "Darth" to each of his successors, a trend which appears to have originated with Darth Revan millennia before. In a nod to Kaan's earlier pronouncement, both master and apprentice in Bane's Sith Order held the title "Dark Lord of the Sith," making them, nominally at least, equals. The new tenets of this order would be cunning, stealth, subterfuge, and a virtue learned from their worst enemy, patience.
Bane's reformed Sith Order went into hiding, though they were soon discovered by the Jedi and believed to be destroyed. They survived, but would not resurface for almost one thousand years, with the depredations of Darth Sidious and Darth Maul that occurred shortly before the Battle of Naboo.
Though Darth Maul was slain in that battle at the hands of Jedi Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi, the day proved an unparalleled victory for the Sith; Darth Sidious, generally known to the public as Senator Palpatine of Naboo, was elected to the office of Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, and set his sights on making Anakin Skywalker, newly discovered by the Jedi and rumored to be the prophesied "Chosen One," his new apprentice.
More than a decade passed, during which Palpatine was granted more and more emergency powers. His new apprentice, former Jedi Master Count Dooku (renamed Darth Tyranus in the Sith tradition), formed the Confederacy of Independent Systems (or the Separatists), which seceded from the Galactic Republic, beginning a long and bloody conflict known as the Clone Wars.
During the Clone Wars, many Jedi lost their lives at the hands of the Separatists and their Kaleesh cyborg military leader, General Grievous. The Clone Wars eventually reached even Coruscant, where the cunning general captured Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. A great battle erupted above the planet-city. In that battle, Anakin Skywalker, now a full-fledged Jedi, brutally executed Count Dooku, as he was goaded by Palpatine.
The Chancellor then started to use his emergency powers to control the Jedi Order. The Jedi were instantly suspicious of Palpatine's motives, and suspected that Darth Sidious was a part of Palpatine's inner circle and was controlling him. Palpatine appointed Anakin to the Jedi Council as the Chancellor's representative, and convinced him that the Jedi were trying to take over the Republic as later evidence proved this true.
It was also during this time that Anakin began to be plagued with visions of the death of his pregnant wife, Senator Padmé Amidala, in childbirth. Haunted by the murder of his mother three years earlier by Tusken Raiders on Tatooine, Anakin had been determined to find a way to prevent death using the Force.
Eventually Palpatine revealed to Anakin that he was, in fact, Sidious. In doing so, he offered him the secret he had been looking for (claiming it had been discovered by his former master, Darth Plagueis[1]), so long as he joined him as his new apprentice. Instead, Anakin went to the Jedi Council and told Jedi Master Mace Windu of Palpatine's true identity. Windu, along with the Jedi Agen Kolar, Saesee Tiin, and Kit Fisto, moved to arrest the Chancellor. However, Sidious quickly cut down the latter three and was battling with Windu when Anakin arrived. Skywalker demanded that Palpatine be arrested and stand trial, but the Jedi master argued that Sidious was far too dangerous to be allowed to live any longer. As Windu moved to kill the Sith Lord, Anakin severed Windu's right hand, allowing Palpatine to strike him down.
Skywalker became Sidious's new apprentice, assuming the Sith title Darth Vader. Sidious quickly instructed Lord Vader to move against the Jedi Temple, imploring him to dispose of all the remaining Jedi, including younglings. Most surviving Jedi not present at the temple were disposed of by "Order 66," which instructed all clone troopers to execute their Jedi commanders. Very few Jedi survived this treachery, the most notable among them Yoda and Obi-Wan.
When it was over, the Jedi ranks had been thinned considerably. At last, the moment had come for the Sith to reclaim their former glory. Sidious/Palpatine replaced the ancient Republic with the Empire, an oppressive, galaxy-spanning dictatorship the likes of which had not been seen for a millennium.
The Great Jedi Purge continued, led by Vader and other Force-sensitive servants of the Emperor, such as the Inquisitorius and the Emperor's Hands, until only a handful of Jedi were left alive. It was a dark time for the galaxy, in which the Force became thought of throughout the Empire (except in the cases of Vader, Palpatine, and their Dark Jedi servants) as an arcane philosophy, almost like a fairy tale. (This was used as an explanation for absence of the term "Sith" in the original trilogy.)
Eventually, however, the Rebel Alliance arose to threaten the Empire's unchallenged sovereignty. The Galactic Civil War drew many into its fold, perhaps the most notable of whom was Luke Skywalker, the son of Anakin. Shortly after Luke destroyed the Empire's terrifying Death Star superweapon, the Emperor and Vader became aware of the young man's identity. Both Sith Lords hoped to corrupt Luke to the dark side, but each had a different motive. Vader desired to kill the Emperor and rule the galaxy with his son, but Palpatine wished to replace Vader with the boy. During the Battle of Endor, Skywalker refused to join the Emperor, who then began torturing him with Force lightning. His son's suffering and pleas for help freed Anakin Skywalker from the Emperor's service, and he threw his master down the Death Star's reactor shaft, in the process subjecting himself to the full force of the Emperor's lightning. Severely injured by the Emperor's assault and with his life-sustaining armor non-functional, the former Sith Lord died a few minutes later. Luke escaped with his father's armour shortly before the new Death Star was destroyed. Luke later burned his father's armour on a funeral pyre on Endor, marking the end of the Emperor's reign.
The Lords of the Sith are not the only ones capable of calling upon the corrupting powers of the dark side of the Force, though they are by far the most dangerous Force-wielding foes of the Jedi. The blanket label "Dark Jedi" is often used to refer to non-Sith Force-users, though these darksiders may never have been true Jedi, as can be seen by the countless "Dark Jedi" trained during the reign of the Empire, during which the Jedi Order was nearly extinct.
During the Clone Wars, Sidious and Tyranus had a number of Dark Jedi serving the Separatist side. Among the most notable of Count Dooku's inner circle were Asajj Ventress, Sora Bulq, Artel Darc, Dustrose, Karoc, Vinoc, Sev'rance Tann, Nikkos Tyris, Saato, Tol Skorr, Kadrian Sey, Trenox, and Quinlan Vos. Sidious, as Emperor, continued this trend after the formation of the Empire, with Dark Jedi such as the Inquisitorius, the Secret Order, the Emperor's Hands, the Dark Side Elite, the Emperor's Royal Guard, and various Dark Side Adepts. Such agents of the Sith were the Dark Jedi Mara Jade and Jeng Droga who would often be sent on missions of subterfuge. After the death of the Emperor, the former Inquisitor Jerec and his cadre of six Dark Jedi made an attempt to seize the Valley of the Jedi, the place of imprisonment of the souls of all those who were destroyed by Kaan's thought bomb during the Battle of Ruusan; Jerec and his Dark Jedi, however, were killed by Kyle Katarn.
New Dark Jedi are constantly crawling out of the woodwork, many of them fallen students of Luke Skywalker, like Gantoris, Kyp Durron, Brakiss, Kueller, Bey Gandon, Dal Konur, and Desann.
Like the Jedi Order, which has a clearly defined hierarchy of titles (Jedi Initiate, or "youngling," to Jedi Padawan to Jedi Knight to Jedi Master to Jedi Grand Master), the Sith Order has a ranking system to divide the strong from the stronger, though it should be noted that, due to the great number of successive incarnations of the order, Sith hierarchy didn't maintain a single continuous ranking system throughout its history. Like the Jedi and the Old Republic, the Sith underwent a great reformation after the apocalyptic Battle of Ruusan, and the ranks of the Sith Order were among the things changed. Prior to that, however, Sith hierarchy remained much the same for almost 6,000 years: Sith Minion to Sith Acolyte to Sith Warrior to Sith Lord to Dark Lord of the Sith. For the most part this ranking system remained the same, through the ancient Sith Empire, Exar Kun's Brotherhood of the Sith, and Darth Revan's Sith Empire, until Lord Kaan declared that all of his highest ranking followers in the Sith Brotherhood of Darkness were Dark Lords of the Sith. Following the Sith Order's destruction at the Seventh Battle of Ruusan, Darth Bane reformed the order and decreed that there would only be two Sith at a time from that point onward: a Master and an apprentice. Both would bear the title "Dark Lord of the Sith," which at that point in time became interchangeable with the term "Sith Lord."
Six years after the Battle of Endor, Palpatine returned to threaten the New Republic. Unbeknownst to the Rebellion, the Emperor had maintained a secret supply of Spaarti cloning cylinders on the planet Byss in the Deep Core. Years before his death at Endor, Palpatine's body had begun to decay so rapidly from the ravaging dark side energies he manipulated that he had been forced to consider periodically transferring his soul into fresh clones of himself. Vader's treachery, however, had been unexpected, and the spirits of the ancient Dark Lords of Korriban had been forced to intervene and draw Palpatine back from the "madness beyond death" themselves. Palpatine's spirit, lacking a nearby clone body to inhabit, took possession of the Emperor's Hand Jeng Droga. Though Droga went mad in the process, he journeyed to Byss, where Grand Vizier Sate Pestage exorcised the Emperor's soul, allowing him to possess a fresh clone. Unfortunately, the trauma of his unexpected death, the transference of his spirit across astronomical distances, and the length of time spent outside his body had considerably weakened the Emperor's mental stability. He would spend five years rebuilding his personal power in the Force and subtle galactic influence, but his mind would never fully recover. Though he and his loyal Imperial forces managed to briefly retake the galactic capital of Coruscant and wreak havoc on the galaxy for a year, the mental and physical health of the resurrected Palpatine continued to deteriorate due to his repeated deaths and the genetic tampering done to his clones by the treacherous Sovereign Protector Carnor Jax. He died a final death on the planet Onderon, when the dying Jedi Knight Empatojayos Brand, a survivor of the Jedi Purge, bound the Emperor's departing life essence to his own, taking the Dark Lord with him as he became one with the Force. Palpatine, the greatest Dark Lord of the Sith, descended into Chaos, the eternal "madness beyond death."
Though Jedi have continued to fall into darkness since then, none have proved as great a threat as that posed by the newest Sith Order. Lumiya, a former Emperor's Hand and Darth Vader's secret apprentice, became Dark Lady of the Sith following her master's death at Endor. She trained two consecutive apprentices: Flint, who was redeemed by Luke Skywalker, and Carnor Jax, who was killed by Palpatine loyalist Kir Kanos shortly after the Emperor's final death on Onderon.
Lumiya supported both the Nagai and Tof alien invasions in the aftermath of the Battle of Endor, crossed paths with Leia Organa on Herdessa and dueled with Luke Skywalker on Kinooine, though all her endeavors ultimately ended in failure. Afterwards, Lady Lumiya went into hiding, returning the Sith Order to the secret, underground existence begun by Darth Bane a millennium before. She reappeared briefly during the Yuuzhan Vong War when she attempted to steal a sample of bafforr pollen from Yaga Minor. After battling the Yuuzhan Vong invaders to a standstill, she vanished once more and has not been heard from since. It is believed that the legacy of Lady Lumiya, who fled after her encounter with the Yuuzhan Vong will be realised in the upcoming Dark Horse comic, Star Wars: Legacy.
Following the Yuuzhan Vong War, however, Jedi Master Kyle Katarn encountered a Force-strong Yuuzhan Vong female in the mysterious Cloak of the Sith region of the galaxy, where it was rumored that post-Palpatine Sith still lived. Powerful though she was, Kyle sensed an even darker hand behind her training. Ominously, this Yuuzhan Vong apparently had a Master.
The Dark Lords of the Sith are acknowledged as the leaders of their order, and the most powerful Sith of their time. Only one Dark Lord existed at a time until the reign of Kaan.
An asterisk (*) denotes that the Sith returned to the light side at some point.
Note: An asterisk (*) denotes that the Sith returned to the light side at some point.
Though technically not Sith, the darksiders who belonged to the Galactic Empire are sometimes referred to as the Emperor's Army of Sith Knights: the Fist of the Empire. See Inquisitorius, Prophets of the Dark Side, Emperor's Royal Guard, Emperor's Hand, Dark Jedi, and Dark side devotee.
The Bladeborn were an offshoot of the Sith formed sometime before the Sith Civil War. They specialized in sword mastery instead of lightsaber combat, and the greatest among them, known as "masterblades," were capable of defeating ten lightsaber-wielding opponents at a time.
The Disciples of Ragnos were a Sith cult dedicated the ancient Dark Lord Marka Ragnos. Led by the Dark Jedi Tavion Axmis, the Disciples attempted to resurrect the spirit of the millennia-dead Sith Lord, only to be stopped by Jedi Knight Jaden Korr. Known Disciples of Ragnos include:
The Krath were a cult founded by Empress Tetan nobles Satal and Aleema Keto, using dark side magics taught them by the shade of the Dark Lord Freedon Nadd. The Krath allied themselves with Exar Kun's Brotherhood of the Sith during the Great Sith War and were largely annihilated in that conflict. Sebban Keto, however, would reestablish the cult in the Empress Tetan capital of Cinnagar millennia later. Known Krath include:
The Mecrosa Order was a Sith-inspired order of assassins sponsored by House Mecetti, the rulers of the Tapani Sector's Mecetti Province. Speculated to have been formed by the survivors of Exar Kun's Sith Brotherhood, the Mecrosa Order was wiped out by the Jedi and House Pelagia of the Tapani Sector's Pelagia Province during the Cleansing of the Nine Houses. It was later reestablished during the reign of the Galactic Empire.
The Naddists were a Sith cult on the planet Onderon that worshipped the deceased Dark Lord Freedon Nadd. Comprised of the both Force-sensitives and non-Force-sensitives, the Naddists, under the leadership of King Ommin and the specter of Freedon Nadd, were destroyed by a group of Jedi under the leadership of Arca Jeth and Ulic Qel-Droma during the Naddist Revolt, though the cult's surviving texts and lore allowed for the quick and easy formation of the Krath. Known Force-sensitive Naddists include:
The Prophets of the Dark Side were an offshoot of the Sith formed by renegade Sith apprentice Darth Millennial sometime after the New Sith Wars. Believing the Rule of Two created by Darth Bane to be too restrictive, Millennial fled from his Master and founded the Prophets of the Dark Side on the ancient Sith world Dromund Kaas, where they were free to practice Lord Kaan's more martial philosophy of Rule by the Strong. Centuries later, the Prophets were reunited with the Sith when Darth Sidious persuaded them to join his future Empire and they became a part of the Emperor's Secret Order. Just prior to the Emperor's death at the Battle of Endor, the Prophets went into hiding and were eventually wiped out by the Dark Jedi Azrakel and Sith Lords Lumiya and Carnor Jax. Known Prophets of the Dark Side include:
The Sith's traditional weapon was the lightsaber. It is usually red, but some Sith used different colors (even blue, a traditonal Jedi color), especially just after turning to the dark side of the Force. Many Sith preferred the double-bladed lightsaber variant, which was invented by Exar Kun, as it allowed the wielder to slaughter enemies faster.
Some Sith, especially during the reign of their first empire, preferred specially crafted Sith swords to lightsabers. Sith swords were altered by Sith Alchemy to be harder and sharper. They never dulled, they could block blaster fire, and they were even able to resist lightsabers. Quite a few Sith Lords, including the Dark Lords Ajunta Pall, Naga Sadow, and the Dark Underlord used Sith swords rather than lightsabers—either for tradition, or because they preferred the more visceral feeling of sword cutting through flesh.
Another traditional Sith weapon was the lanvarok, a wrist-mounted projectile launcher which could fling a number of thin but solid metal discs in a spray towards a target. To increase the weapon's accuracy, Sith would often guide the projectiles into their targets using the Force.
The concept of the ancient Sith Empire may have been influenced by the culture of Ancient Egypt. Particularly, the god-like status accorded the Dark Lord of the Sith is similar to that of the Egyptian Pharaohs, and much of the architecture on Korriban (as seen in the comics) bears a noticeable resemblance to that of Egyptian tombs.
Despite the name "Sith" being identical to one version of an Irish term for fairies (sidhe), which in folklore were sometimes malignant, there appears to be no relation between the terms.
Though not confirmed another possible origin Lucas used were the secret societies of the Egyptian Seth and/or Set (both groups being preoccupied with a rebellion against nature and an argument for the left-handed path), as well as Nietzsche's The Will to Power. A final comparison can be made to Satanism.
The sound of English written as <th> (phonetically the voiceless dental fricative, IPA [θ]) is not used in many languages, including French, German, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese. In foreign language versions of the Star Wars franchise, the <th> in <Sith> was pronounced as /t/ in German, and as /s/ in Japanese.
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A Jedi was a member of the Jedi Order, which studied, served and used the mystical energies of the Force; more specifically, the light side of the Force. The Jedi fought for peace and justice in the Galactic Republic, often against their mortal enemies, the Sith, who studied the dark side of the Force. Although the Order was twice almost destroyed, first by the Sith Empire of Darth Revan and 4,000 years later by the Great Jedi Purge of Darth Sidious, the Order lived on due in large part to the efforts of Luke Skywalker, who forged a New Jedi Order to defend first the New Republic, and later its successor, the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances.
Originally formed as a philosophical study group situated on the planet Tython, the Jedi became revered as guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy. As mystical wielders of the Force and of their glowing, signature lightsabers, their powers inspired awe in most of the galaxy's citizens. The calm, considered demeanor of the Jedi made them ideal brokers of peace in times of conflict or dispute. Yet, for all their power and diversity, the Jedi were few. Often beset by foes in times of doubt and confusion, undercurrents of evil often challenged their order and the establishment they served, the most notable being the Sith. These dark warriors were the antithesis of the Jedi, their sworn enemies, and the battle between them brought the galaxy to war more than once. In times of crisis, the Sith influence could even block the sight of the Jedi Order.
The way of the Jedi had become the way of wisdom and patience, backed by swift and decisive action when necessary. However, the Jedi Council sometimes showed what appeared to be a lack of decisiveness, such as during the Mandalorian Wars, preferring to work with events and patterns over the long term. Their inaction spurred Revan to fight back, and eventually led to the Jedi Civil War. To the rest of the galaxy, the line between Jedi and Sith became blurred during the conflict, and both sides were blamed for the destruction wrought on worlds such as Katarr, Telos, and Dantooine.
Through intricate planning and dazzling adaptability, one Sith Master (Senator Palpatine of Naboo) even rose to the office of Supreme Chancellor of the Republic, engineered a war, and undermined the Jedi until he could, in one swift, masterful stroke, destroy the Jedi Order and enslave the galaxy beneath his banner as Emperor. Yet even this catastrophe failed to eradicate the Jedi completely, and, within a generation, they had returned to once again protect and nurture the galaxy with their wisdom and guidance. The Jedi were a source of morale for the New Republic.
Becoming a Jedi required the most profound commitment and astute mind. The life of a Jedi was one of sacrifice. To hinder transgression, those who showed an aptitude for the Force were taken directly from birth (or soon afterward) to train in the Jedi Temple headquartered on Coruscant or at smaller Jedi Enclaves. From the beginning of their training a Jedi was expected to adhere to a strict Code that included concepts such as rational thought, patience, and benevolence. Emotions such as hate, anger, and fear were thought to be destructive and lead to the dark side, so such things were banned from Jedi practice.
Almost all youthful Jedi were initially called Younglings and instructed in "clans" by a venerable, experienced Jedi Master, learning the ways of the Jedi and the powers of the Force. After Ruusan it had become normal that the Jedi trainees were always children. Once Yavin 4 had been established as Jedi headquarters, the Jedi initiates, which were no longer children, were trained first under the direction of Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, and, in time, under another Master's direction in groups. When the New Jedi Order began, the Younglings were again trained in clans from childhood.
When an individual student achieved satisfactory understanding of the Jedi way, they were usually taken under the wing of another Jedi member and instructed individually to complete their training. Masters typically brought their Padawans along on missions, and later sent them on missions of their own, to allow them to gain experience and learn from practice.
Not all students were promoted to direct study as Padawan under a Jedi Master. In the days of the Old Republic, it was common practice for Younglings who weren't selected to be Padawans by the age of 13 to be shifted into one of the divisions of the public service organization, the Jedi Service Corps. Obi-Wan Kenobi was one such Youngling until the events at Bandomeer caused Qui-Gon Jinn to accept Obi-Wan as his Padawan.
The traditional Jedi weapon was the lightsaber, which, in the hands of a skilled wielder, could be deadly in combat, even against opponents armed with ranged weapons. To attain this level of skill, however, required great focus and training. Students practiced the rubrics of lightsaber combat with a remote, and children used training lightsabers. They also dueled fellow Jedi as a test of their skills.
Due to all the weight being in the hilt, Jedi needed heightened awareness, thus, such conditioning honed their attunement to the Force. Since the binding of a lightsaber's intricate innards and the initial charging of the power cell also required knowledge of the Force to implement, the Padawan is tasked with constructing their own lightsaber as part of their training, using a force crystal, (for example found on the ice planet of Ilum), that focuses the crystal's energy thus creating the lightsaber's blade.
During the Jedi Civil War era, many Cerean Jedi used specially-forged Kasha lightsaber crystals as a meditative tool; by incorporating such crystals into their training regimens, they helped to clear the wielder's mind of distractions, even during tense physical combat. Further, it was a task in itself to find components for the lightsaber. Meditation in a crystal cave on a planet such as Ilum or Dantooine would often produce an image in the Jedi's mind about the lightsaber they were to build. The construction of a lightsaber was considered a milestone on the path to Jedi Knighthood, and took on a heavily symbolic meaning.
During the times of the Old Republic, it was a customary practice for a Jedi Master to present their own personal lightsaber as a gift to their most accomplished student. Jedi apprentice Nomi Sunrider was the recipient of one such lightsaber, receiving the weapon from Master Thon as a testament to the potential for greatness he recognized within her. Though the apprentice was indeed grateful for receiving such an honored gift, their Master would still stress the importance of knowing how to build one, requiring or even demanding that eventually the apprentice learns to construct their own, unique, lightsaber.
In following the Code, Jedi behavior was rigidly structured to uphold self-discipline, responsibility, and public service. The Jedi conquered emotions and materialism. They honored life, the law, the order itself and the master-student relationship. Jedi rendered aid to support and defend the weak; compassion was "encouraged." Rules of engagement included such notions as understanding the dark and light in all things, learning to see accurately, opening their eyes to what was not evident and exercising caution, even in trivial matters. Above all, Jedi upheld their duty to the Republic and embraced the Force. The Jedi before the Ruusan Reformation typically had more leeway in their dealings, as the Order was more loosely organized and the individual Knights and Masters granted greater personal freedom. Afterward, the Order was more centrally regulated by the High Council.
Early Jedi were known to utilize shields and armor to protect themselves in battle, and used blaster pistols as well as lightsabers in combat. Later, as the lightsaber became a more self-contained weapon without an external power pack, the Jedi chose to carry it as their sole "tool" of defense and offense. The lightsaber was considered more a tool than a weapon. The lightsaber came to fulfill both a symbolic and pragmatic role for the Jedi; it identified the wielder, had a powerful visual impact, and given the availability of cybernetic replacement limbs might have been seen as a more 'clean' weapon than the blaster, which Obi-Wan regarded as "uncivilized," "clumsy" and "random."
The Jedi of the pre-Reformation era, (Old Jedi Order), also do not seem to have had any formal dress code, and dressed more or less as they saw fit, although traditional robes were favored by most Masters. These included a tunic, a cloak, and sometimes a tabard—usually in varied tones and shades of white and brown, though, gray was also quite common for the overtunic. The left side of the dress was always turned on the right part of the torso. After the Reformation, these robes became the typical Jedi clothing, even in battle. The Jedi also wore trousers, an obi, a leather utility belt, where they carried specialized field gear for their missions, and leather boots. The Jedi colors, which showed harmony with the Force, formed a stark contrast to the antithetical Sith, who were draped primarily in black.
In accordance with their philosophies of non-attachment, clothing was viewed as quite disposable. Indeed, possession itself was seen as forbidden as another form of attachment, and most Jedi lived out lives of material poverty, though the Order's infrastructure and the support of the Republic meant the Jedi did not lack for food, housing, or clothing.
Post-Ruusan Jedi were forbidden to hold strong attachments, as they were believed to lead to the emotions of the dark side. For this reason, Jedi were not allowed to marry. Anakin Skywalker would become testament to such Jedi circumspection, as his fear of losing his undisclosed wife, Padmé Amidala, ultimately caused his fall to darkness, but his connection to his son, Luke Skywalker, would later drive him back to the light. Although Jedi were not required to be chaste as well, many Jedi were due to sex being considered self-indulgence and an unnecessary act. At least one special case was recorded in this arrangement: Ki-Adi-Mundi who, due to low Cerean birth-rates, was permitted to have a polygamous marriage, and fathered seven daughters. Ranik Solusar was disciplined by the Council for his marriage and the child it produced, but was not expelled from the order.
Despite this restriction, Jedi were known to have secret, clandestine relationships, whether with non-Jedi, such as the marriages of Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala, Quinlan Vos and Khaleen Hentz, and Etain Tur-Mukan and Clone Commando Darman; or within the Jedi Order itself—such as the relationships of Kit Fisto and Aayla Secura, Qui-Gon Jinn and Tahl, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Siri Tachi, and Tholme and Tr'a Saa. Many of these relationships did not lead to mishap. Further, Revan shared a romantic affection with Bastila Shan, who was redeemed by him after her fall.
Others openly defied the High Council on this matter. This led to particular strife with Jolee Bindo and his wife, Nayama Bindo, during the Great Sith War. Bindo trained his wife in the ways of the Force, but she soon fell to the dark side. He was not expelled from the order, and instead was to be promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight. He then lost faith in the wisdom of the Council and left the order.
Up to the Ruusan Reformation, some Jedi did practice marriage and were known to have families of their own. There were even cases of families consisting entirely of Jedi, such as that of Andur Sunrider. The children of Jedi families were often gifted in the Force. Even later in the order, such families existed—though the continuation of the line was through those family members who did not become Jedi. Famous Jedi families of the late Republic included the Koon family and the Diath family.
However, it appears that some Jedi might have been granted the right to marry, not as a special case, but as a norm. Several Corellian Jedi (Keiran Halcyon and Nejaa Halcyon during the Old Republic, and Corran Horn in the time of the New Republic) were allowed to marry and raise children without repercussion. Whether this was due to an agreement between the Jedi and the planetary government—Corellia is known for its family-centric culture—or purely personal choices made against the Jedi Code is not known. However, as Corellian Jedi often had many other noticeable differences from the traditional Jedi ways, such as in clothing and a reluctance to take on missions outside of their home system, it is possible that Corellian Jedi were allowed to engage in practices that had been banned by the Council in later years.
By the time of the New Jedi Order, the practice of forbidding or discouraging marriages had been discarded, as many of the Order's members had spouses and children, including the Order's grand master himself, whose wife was another Jedi Master.
The way of the Jedi was a life-long path, and a Jedi usually remained part of the Order their entire life—learning more about the Order and the Force and following the will of the Jedi Council. Up until the beginning of the Clone Wars, only twenty Jedi (of rank Master or higher) were said to have ever left the Order (although there is some debate as to whether this means the post-Ruusan Order, the Order after some earlier point in its history, or literally in its entire history), of which the most prominent were Count Dooku and Master Phanius. These were commonly referred to as the Lost Twenty, or simply "The Lost".
The Jedi were unified by their study of the Force: an "energy field" that emanated from every living thing. The Jedi sought to understand the Force so that they could use its power to protect and aid the people that they served. The Jedi believed that the Force could be harnessed through careful study and contemplation to benefit the user and the world around them. As they studied the light side of the Force, the Jedi encouraged their members only to use the Force for healing and defense—never in anger or fear. Unfortunately, several of the Jedi order throughout history disagreed with this view, arguing that other, darker uses of the Force should be allowed. This disagreement was one of the main issues the Jedi faced in their constant battle with the Sith.
The Jedi focus their lives on understanding and strengthening their connection, or oneness, with the Force to allow them to manipulate it as an extension of themselves (by contrast, Sith merely enforce control over the Force). This connection is increased by rigorous training and meditation to achieve a state of mental, physical, emotional and spiritual harmony, a kind of inner peace. As the path requires such great discipline and may extend a Jedi's life, most Jedi never reach their true potential. Further attempts to achieve this potential may meet with failure and cause frustration in Jedi, resulting in a lesser connection and more frustration in turn. This is the main reason why Sith consider themselves stronger than Jedi, as few Jedi have shown the true limits of the light side's power and those who have seldom use it.
The dark side of the Force brought with it a great temptation for many Jedi; to many the dark side seemed a quicker and easier path. Pursuit of the dark side, however, was a self-destructive endeavor, and many Jedi who tasted dark powers found it harder and harder to turn away. Though some Jedi could be redeemed back to the path of the light, many fell and became Dark Jedi, some of whom were members of the Sith Order. Further, the pall of the dark side could diminish Jedi ability, clouding their insights into important matters. For these reasons, practice of dark Force powers was expressly forbidden by the Jedi Council. Those fallen to the dark side, however, the Jedi tried to save. To the Jedi, killing was a last resort. This quality was at once a strength and a weakness of the Order.
The strength of the Jedi Code and organization rested on three core tenets.
When used correctly, these allowed a Jedi to solve any problem and overcome any obstacle, helping to make the galaxy a better place.
As the Jedi instructed their members in the ways of the Jedi Code and the Force, each member progressed through four basic levels of rank.
A Jedi Knight or Jedi Master could have only one apprentice at a time, and the Padawan had to be promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight before another apprentice could be chosen. Several thousand years before the events of the Ruusan Reformation, however, masters were allowed to have more than one apprentice, as evidenced by Master Arca Jeth having three—the brothers Ulic and Cay Qel-Droma and the Twi'lek Tott Doneeta. When the New Jedi Order first began, Luke Skywalker had to assign several students to one master due to the few Jedi in the Order; for example, Kyle Katarn had Jaden Korr and Rosh Penin both assigned to him. During both of these vastly different time periods, the term "Padawan" was not used, thereby strengthening the association of the word with the one-master-one-student policy.
Being a Jedi was a life of great variation as the Jedi Order had several responsibilities. While many Jedi were generalists, some would specialize in one or more areas either in accordance with their own interests and preferences, or because they were delegated responsibility for an area that required specialization. With these specializations often came specific Jedi ranks. Moreover, in certain periods of the history of the galaxy, some Jedi would assume military ranks fighting alongside Republic forces.
In times of war, especially when Sith forces were involved, Jedi would sometimes assume military ranks and govern armies of Republic military units, as was seen in the Mandalorian Wars, the Jedi Civil War, the New Sith Wars, and the Clone Wars. So Jedi indeed became soldiers, not just keepers of the peace.
In addition to the ordinary military ranks, there were a number of ranks and titles based on specialization in areas of warfare and combat.
Some Jedi would specialize in lore, such as the history of the galaxy, the Force, and the Jedi Order, producing invaluable knowledge.
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Jedi were often called upon to act as impartial diplomats, possibly due to the Order's traditions of detachment from secular society and the phenomenon of Force-guided intuition. They would serve as moderators and negotiators during disputes, and their judgments were often recognized as just and binding. When acting as diplomats, Jedi took the utmost care to be impartial and fair-minded. The legacy of this impartiality was such that, decades after the Jedi Purge and Palpatine's false accusations of the corruption of the Jedi Order, the legend of Jedi impartiality lived on in the memories of some sections of galactic society. Some species who respected the Jedi – for example, the Barabel – retained a tradition of calling upon a Jedi's impartial judgment even for minor interpersonal disputes.
While any Jedi could function as a mediator or diplomat – for example, Obi-Wan Kenobi, also known as The Negotiator due to his skills in this area – two dedicated classes of "diplomatic Jedi" are known to have existed prior to the Jedi Purge:
The Jedi Order would also actively partake in crime-fighting as part of their role as keepers of the peace in the Republic. They would loosely police the galaxy, but there were also groups of Jedi specializing in crime detection, investigation, solving, and prevention.
In addition to the Master-Padawan model, some Jedi had specialized in teaching aspects of the Force and the skill required to be a Jedi.
The prophecy of the Chosen One was an ancient Jedi legend that foretold the coming of a being who was "to bring balance to the Force". This prophecy was interpreted by Qui-Gon and other Jedi to mean that he would destroy the Sith. Qui-Gon Jinn believed that a young Anakin Skywalker was that person when he discovered him in 32 BBY, because of Anakin's exceptionally high midi-chlorian count and unique birth.
It seemed that Anakin was not the Chosen One, since he fell to the Dark Side, and as Darth Vader, was a main figure in the destruction of the Jedi Order. However, in 4 ABY he redeemed himself with his decision to stand against Emperor Palpatine, sacrificing himself to save his son, Luke, and finally destroyed the Sith in the process, proving Qui-Gon and various others correct at last. With the deaths of both Sidious and Vader the Force was brought into a certain "balance".
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La sexualidad en Star Trek hace referencia al amplio espectro de prácticas sexuales que han podido ser observadas en la franquicia de Star Trek. Las relaciones sexuales que generalmente han sido mostradas han sido de carácter heterosexual. Las relaciones entre especies y entre etnias se han dado con relativa frecuencia, mientras que las relaciones homosexuales y trangénero (LGBT) han sido más escasas. Se ha suscitado mucha polémica a raíz de esta carencia de personajes LGBT en el hilo argumental de Star Trek.
En comparación, se ha mostrado en pantalla una mayor gama de visiones relativas a la monogamia, poligamia y la institución del matrimonio.
En lo relativo a la sexualidad como precursora de la reproducción, algunos argumentos se han centrado en la posibilidad de hijos en determinadas relaciones entre distintas especies, así como los prejuicios que estos niños deben soportar por parte de la sociedad de cada uno de sus padres.
La Serie Original no incluía personajes LGBT. Esto puede atribuirse a la normativa censora estadounidense que imperaba sobre las cadenas de televisión bajo el Código Hays. Sin embargo, no se trataba de una prohibición gubernamental, puesto que en 1967 la serie N.Y.P.D. emitió dos episodios de temática gay.1 Aparte del subtexto entre Capitán Kirk y Spock,2 y la posible sexualidad del Capitán R.M. Merrik en "Bread and Circuses", lo más parecido fue el último episodio de la serie emitido en 1969 como un apoyo tácito del feminismo. En el episodio el Capitán Kirk intercambia su mente con la de una mujer, y el Kirk poseído se comporta de una manera más afeminada. En el episodio "The Trouble With Tribbles", los tribbles son descritos como "bisexuales," pero esto no es una referencia a su sexualidad, sino que significa que sonhermafroditas: "se reproducen a voluntad". Para la biología terrestre, la "reproducción bisexual" implica un sistema reproductivo que requiere dos sexos distintos para poder operar.
El episodio "Metamorphosis" puede interpretarse que incluye cierto tipo de apoyo a las relaciones no heterosexuales. En el episodio Zephram Cochrane se comunica regularmente con una forma de vida alienígena a la que se refiere como el Compañero. A pesar de la relación tan cercana quemantienen, cuando Cochrane descubre que el alienígena es una mujer (Cochrane pensaba que no tenía sexo) y que está enamorado de él Cochrane siente revulsión. La reacción de la tripulación del Enterprise es mucho más aceptadora. Spock describe la reacción de Cochrane como "Fascinante, una actitud totalmente provinciana." Refiriéndose al Compañero, McCoy señala que "No hay nada repulsivo en ello. Es sólo otra forma de vida, nada más. Te acostumbras a esas cosas."
En 2005, George Takei, que interpretaba al piloto Hikaru Sulu en la serie, se convirtió en el primer actor principal de todas las series de Star Trek que reconoció públicamente ser gay.3
En 1987, el creador de la serie Gene Roddenberry declaró que habría personajes homosexuales en La Nueva Generación.4 David Gerrold, un escritor de ciencia ficción entre cuyos trabajos cabe destacar haber escrito el guión del popular episodio de La Serie Original "The Trouble with Tribbles", se encontraba junto a Roddenberry en 1987 cuando éste prometió que La Nueva Generación incorporaría personajes LGBT, y por ello preparó un primer boceto de un guión de un episodio que incluiría a dos miembros varones de la tripulación del Enterprise que fueran una pareja, en el contexto de una alegoría sobre el maltrato de las personas infectadas con el SIDA. El título de este episodio que no llegó a producirse era "Blood and Fire". Gerrold ha señalado desde entonces que a pesar de que la mayoría de personas del reparto y del equipo (incluyendo a Roddenberry) apoyaban la historia argumental, hubo una gran oposición en el estudio y el guión nunca llegó a la fase de producción. La razón exacta de por qué el guión no llegó a producirse continúa sin estar clara.
En el libro Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Continuing Mission el autor culpa al estudio: "Muchos de los cambios en la percepción del guión surgieron a raíz de la preocupación de Paramount de que como la serie era sindicada, en algunos mercados podría emitirse por la tarde cuando espectadores jóvenes podrían formar parte de la audiencia." La edición de octubre de 1992 de la revista Cinefantastique culpaba del destino del guión al productor ejecutivo Rick Berman. Roddenberry públicamente apoyó la idea de tener personajes homosexuales en la serie, y en reuniones internas sobre "Blood and Fire" Herbert Wrightparafrasea a Roddenberry cuando éste dijo:
En 1991, en una historia de la revista The Advocate, Ernest Over (el secretario gay de Roddenberry), declaró erróneamente que el guión mostraba a uno de los hombres de la relación como afeminado y al otro como masculino.6 Gerrold aparentemente se molestó tanto por este comentario que vendió copias del guión en convenciones para que los fans pudieran juzgar por sí mismos: donó la mayoría de los beneficios al Proyecto SIDA de Los Ángeles. Al no pasar de la fase del guión "Blood and Fire", La Nueva Generación emitió algunos episodios que parecían incluir personajes LGBT y que parecían ofrecer una crítica de la homofobia.
En un episodio de 1990, "The Offspring", Data crea a Lal, una hija androide, y los demás miembros de la tripulación intentan explicar a Lal conceptos sobre la sexualidad humanoide. En una escena Whoopi Goldbergconsiguió modificar con éxito el diálogo de su personaje, Guinan, de "cuando un hombre ama a una mujer" a "cuando dos personas están enamoradas",4 pero cuando hubo un último intento de tener a una pareja gay en el fondo de la escena, el productor David Livingston fue avisado y se detuvo el intento y no pudo tener lugar.4
También en 1990, en el guión del episodio "Captain's Holiday", una de las direcciones anotadas en el guión habla en detalle de Risa, un lugar de vacaciones y ocio, en el que "predominan las parejas, con todo el espectro de preferencias sexuales siendo evidente."7 Sin embargo, el episodio en sí sólo muestra parejas heterosexuales.
En el episodio de 1991 "The Host", la Dra. Beverly Crusher (interpretada por Gates McFadden) se enamora de Odan, un embajador varón Trill que cambia de cuerpos hasta terminar en el de una mujer. En ese punto, Crusher pone fin al romance por no poder acostumbrarse al cambio de cuerpos constante, y hace un llamamiento para que llegue un día en el que la habilidad de amar de los seres humanos no sea tan limitada. En una entrevista posterior, McFadden señala que el episodio tocó sólo muy por encima el tema de la homosexualidad, ya que el romance no se rompía porque Odan fuera una mujer, sino por el constante intercambio de cuerpos. A pesar de eso, McFadden afirma que el estudio recibió mucha correspondencia de los fans, tanto para decir que apenas habían tocado el tema y deberían haber hecho más, como para decir que se habían excedido y que no deberían haberlo mencionado en absoluto.8 Un episodio posterior titulado "Liaisons" (1993) explora un tema similar cuando un alienígena varón tiene un romance con el capitán Picard mientras éste está disfrazado de mujer, pero como en The Host, no hay señales de amor cuando el alienígena cambia de género.
En una entrevista de 1991 en The Humanist, Roddenberry habló sobre ser un hombre heterosexual que había superado su propia homofobia:
Roddenberry también prometió que en la quinta temporada de La Nueva Generación aparecerían personajes LGBT. Otros miembros de la franquicia aportaron sus opiniones, con Leonard Nimoy (que interpretaba aSpock) mostrando su apoyo en una carta de 1991 al periódico Los Angeles Times:
Sin embargo, Roddenberry murió poco después de estas entrevistas, su secretario Ernest Over fue despedido, y los planes anunciados de tener un miembro de la tripulación que fuera gay nunca llegaron a materializarse. El control de la franquicia Star Trek pasó a manos de hombres como Rick Berman. Aunque no llegó a haber ningún personaje gay en La Nueva Generación, hubo un episodio que trató directamente el tema de la discriminación sexual en el universo Star Trek.
El episodio de 1992 "The Outcast" mostraba como argumento que el Comandante William Riker (interpretado por Jonathan Frakes) se enamoraba de Soren, una miembro de una raza alienígena humanoide andrógina llamada los J'naii, que veían la expresión de cualquier tipo de género masculino o femenino, especialmente las relaciones sexuales, como una perversión sexual. Cuando se descubre la relación entre Riker y Soren, los diplomáticos J'naii fuerzan a Soren a someterse a terapia "psicotética" (es decir, un lavado de cerebro). La intención del episodio era detener la campaña de cartas y críticas de los fans que querían que se llevara a cabo la promesa pública de Roddenberry hecha en 1987 y 1991 de integrar personajes LGBT en la serie.5
Soren fue interpretada por la actriz Melinda Culea, y todos los personajes principales de los J'naii fueron interpretados por mujeres, una decisión creativa criticada por Frakes, que pensaba que Soren debería haber sido interpretado por un hombre, para que cuando los dos personajes se besaran habría provocado el mismo comentario social similar al de La Serie Original, que emitió el primer beso interracial entre personajes de ficción en la televisión de Estados Unidos. Frakes y los fans pensaban que tener a todos los J'naii interpretados por mujeres quitaba fuerza al comentario social del episodio, y además creaba la sensación de que lahomosexualidad era algo que entraba en el Enterprise a través de lesbianas fascistas.4 A pesar de las críticas, Berman entendió que con este episodio se acabarían las críticas de los fans con respecto al asunto gay.4
De hecho, el primer beso entre personas del mismo sexo fue utilizado como broma. En el episodio de 1992 "A Fistful of Datas", el programa sobre el Salvaje Oeste de la holocubierta sólo puede ser detenido cuandoData, como el propietario del Salón, se echa en los brazos de Worf y le besa. La utilización de la homosexualidad como recurso cómico también se da con el personaje de Q, quien en el episodio "Tapestry" da a entender que en un universo paralelo él podría haber sido el amante de Picard, y en otros momentos del diálogo cuando Q menciona que podría haber aparecido como una mujer.
Cuando la película de 1996 Star Trek VIII: Primer contacto estaba en la fase de producción, circuló un rumor sobre que un miembro de la tripulación, llamado el teniente Hawk (interpretado por Neal McDonough), sería identificado como gay de alguna forma sutil. El Daily Mail y la Gay and Lesbians Alliance Against Defamation informaron sobre este rumor, pero Berman rápidamente realizó una declaración de prensa en la que se señalaba que no habría personajes LGBT en la película. Sin embargo, unos cuantos años más tarde en la novela de Andy Mangels y Michael Martin Section 31: Rogue, el teniente Hawk quedó establecido como un personaje gay.5
Cuando Star Trek: Espacio Profundo Nueve debutó en 1993, algunos fans se preguntaron si en la nueva serie habría personajes LGBT o algún comentario social sobre la homofobia.5
En Star Trek: Espacio Profundo Nueve (1993–1999) todos los personajes principales son oficialmente heterosexuales excepto unos pocos. El personaje que generó mayor controversia fue el de Elim Garak(interpretado por Andrew Robinson), un cardasiano exiliado que trabajaba en una sastrería en la estación espacial. Con el tiempo el personaje se interesó amorosamente por una mujer. Sin embargo, la posibilidad de que fuera bisexual, si no gay, ha estado siempre muy presente entre los fans de la serie — especialmente considerando que siempre indicó que no agradecía el interés de Tora Ziyal en él más allá de la amistad.11El mismo Robinson jugaba bastante con el tema al hablar de la orientación sexual de su personaje. En el libro A Stitch In Time y en una entrevista a Amazon.com señaló que él interpretaba a Garak como si éste fuera bisexual, mientras que en otras ocasiones ha dicho que él sentía que Garak era omnisexual, es decir, que amaba a la gente sin importar su género.12
Sin embargo, sería la mujer Trill llamada Jadzia Dax (interpretada por Terry Farrell) quien daría el primer beso romántico entre personas del mismo sexo en la historia televisiva de Star Trek. En el episodio de 1995 titulado "Rejoined", Jadzia debate si reunirse con otramujer Trill, la Dra. Lenara Kahn. Originalmente, el guión señalaba que el papel de Kahn fuera interpretado por un hombre, pero se cambió porque los productores pensaron que el público comprendería que el tabú Trill sería violado si se trataba de dos mujeres.12 Los simbiontes de Dax y Kahn se habían casado, cuando el simbionte de Dax se unió a un huesped masculino y el de Kahn con una huesped femenina distinta. Sin embargo, al reunirse, las dos Trill estarían violando un tabú Trill contra el restablecimiento de las relaciones entre huespedes anteriores. Así, las dos mujeres aceptan separarse al final del episodio y Jadzia Dax vuelve a salir con hombres. Sin embargo, ningún miembro de la tripulación expresa disgusto u odio del breve affair lésbico, y el capitán Benjamin Sisko, en una conversación con Jadzia, deja claro que el sexo de la Dra. Kahn no supone ningún problema. Este episodio fue el primero de Star Trek que recibió una clasificación superior al de 'Permitido para todos los públicos' en casi todos los países en los que se mostró (aunque un episodio posterior de esta misma serie recibiría una clasificación aún mayor debido a la violencia extrema del mismo).
Aunque "Rejoined" continuaba la exploración de los temas relacionados con la identidad de género iniciados en "The Host", la serie permitió que algunos personajes heterosexuales se volvieran homosexuales o bisexuales en un universo alternativo o universo espejo. El primer episodio de la serie del universo espejo fue "Crossover" (1994), y fue seguido por "Through the Looking Glass", "Shattered Mirror", "Resurrection" y finalmente "The Emperor's New Cloak".
En el universo espejo, la Mayor/Coronel Kira Nerys (interpretada por Nana Visitor) existía en un universo alternativo en el que era bisexual. La Kira alternativa fue mostrada flirteando con su doble y con la doble de Jadzia Dax, pero se la conocía especialmente por haber tenido una relación sexual con Ezri Tigan. Ezri también era mostrada manteniendo una relación con Leeta, además del lesbianismo del que hacían gala otras miembros de la tripulación y personajes secundarios, sumado al (casi universal) lesbianismo del universo espejo.
Cuando Voyager comenzó a emitirse, los fans crearon el "Proyecto de Visibilidad Voyager" en un intento de persuadir a la serie de tener a uno de los miembros de la tripulación con una orientación sexual establecida gay o bisexual. El club consiguió el apoyo del nieto de Roddenberry, Richard Compton Jr.13
El club creó una campaña de correspondencia lo suficientemente poderosa para que en 1997 la productora ejecutiva de Voyager, Jeri Taylor, realizara la sugerencia de que Seven of Nine fuera oficialmente lesbiana o bisexual. Esta sugerencia interna se filtró a la prensa, y el club de fans y la GLAAD emitieron un comunicado de prensa alabando la decisión de hacer del personaje el primer homosexual del universo Star Trek.14Sin embargo, Paramount rápidamente emitió un comunicado en el que aseguraba que Seven of Nine iba a ser heterosexual, y posteriormente Taylor explicó que la sugerencia había sido rechazada por un superior.
En 2002 Kate Mulgrew (que interpretaba a la capitana Kathryn Janeway) realizó una entrevista para Metrosource en la que habló ocn franqueza sobre el tema de los personajes LGBT en el universo televisivo de Star Trek:
Ese mismo año Mulgrew fue aún más directa al hablar sobre el tema en una entrevista en agosto de 2002 para Out in America:
El eterno debate sobre si Star Trek incluiría un personaje LGBT llegó a su cúlmen con Star Trek: Enterprise. En una entrevista de 2002 para Metrosource, el actor Scott Bakula (que interpretaba al capitán Jonathan Archer) expresó su apoyo a la idea al igual que lo habían hecho los actores de La Nueva Generación Patrick Stewart y Jonathan Frakes en los 90. En la entrevista Bakula dijo:
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Does everyone agree that I have the record in longest reply spam
-TheDarth
Longest maybe, but polarstar_111 I think has the best, I'm guessing it's the hundreds of hyperlinks in his responses that are making my browser shit all over itself.
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And I feel truly honoured for that last comment.
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Women = Money²
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Women = Money² = Evil
Therefore:
Women = Evil
→ Women are evil!
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