Reparative Therapy in Science Fiction TV

"I am female. I was born that way. I have had those feelings, those longings, all of my life. It is not unnatural. I am not sick because I feel this way. I do not need to be helped. I do not need to be cured. What I need, and what all of those who are like me need, is your understanding. And your compassion. We have not injured you in any way. And yet we are scorned and attacked. And all because we are different. What we do is no different from what you do. We talk and laugh. We complain about work. And we wonder about growing old. We talk about our families and we worry about the future. And we cry with each other when things seem hopeless. All of the loving things that you do with each other - that is what we do. And for that we are called misfits, and deviants and criminals. What right do you have to punish us? What right do you have to change us? What makes you think you can dictate how people love each other?"

(Star Trek Wikia)

Reparative therapy is an abusive form of therapy used against LGBT people, to try to make them straight. To my knowledge, only STNG has covered the reparative movement, in its episode "The Outcast". In part, reparative therapy is just not considered a "big" enough topic for sci-fi, and also many sci-fi producers probably believe reparative therapies will disappear in the future, a likely occurrence as ex-gay centers continue to close nationwide. But I believe it is a big enough issue that more series need to follow STNG's example. Outcast is an elegant, though overly-cautious, appeal to stop abusive therapy against LGBT people. It has occasionally been misread as being anti-LGBT, but I think the episode was specifically targeting reparative practices, which at the time were very much under public scrutiny. One thing "Outcast" does particularly well is flip some of the assumptions of the reparative therapy movement by making the J'naii asexual. I do agree with Jonathan Frakes, however, that a man should have played the role of Riker