The basic workaround was to use gender-neutral descriptions instead of pronouns. Those descriptions should be understood as literary definitions of the charaters in the story. In that way, the Spanish version is a bit more verbose than the French and English versions, but it still keeps the meaning. And, what’s more important, Nick’s original objective in the English version is kept as well, namely the game of power relations and the ambiguity in gender.

Little modifications of the Klingon code (er, Python) have also been necessary because of certain rules, but the structure is still the same. I hope the final version does justice to Nick’s great idea.