Thing is, though, that right off the top of my head I can think of three instances of genre shows/movies actually featuring MPreg. Not fanfic - the shows themselves.

I've not read any MPreg fanfic & don't have any particular urge to (unless someone I knew to be an excellent writer were to tackle it, in which case, sure, whatever) but I know it's out there - still, I do feel the need to point out that Enterprise and Alien Nation both featured MPreg, as have various crappy movies and shows like that Arnie vehicle with Emma Thompson. For example.

Um.

t /totally oversensitive to potential ridicule of fanfic.

Didn't Angel almost feature mpreg? (In Epiphany, I think.)

I've not read any MPreg fanfic & don't have any particular urge to

What- you're not intrested in those LotRs Mpregs I found?

I do feel the need to point out that Enterprise and Alien Nation both featured MPreg

I don't watch Alien Nation, and normally I don't bother about Trek, but by all the gods of fanfic, that episode of Enterprise was funny. And, as you say, canon mpreg.

Oh i'm not ridiculing at all! More permutations of human behavior and relationships (and, er, biology?) in all kinda fiction the better. I would never presume to tell anyone what they could or could not write about. I just think it's funny that "mpreg" is an established genre, such as it is. I was wondering about it because it kept popping up in other discussions, unrelated to fan fiction. Mostly punning off of "mpeg".

It was good, one of the few Enterprises I've had the pleasure of watching. Very funny. He reminds me of McCoy in the nicest way.

Futurama just had an mpreg story a couple of weeks ago. And Quantum Leap also did at least one where Sam leaped into a pregnant woman.

Alien Nation, like Buffy, was (imho) a case of an idea being developed far more fully in the TV spin-off. I was very fond of it. Lots of nice wee details, interesting characters, interesting ideas. It was fun. And it involved an approach to carrying babies that was a little like the sea horse one, only different; when George & his wife had a baby, she carried it for the first x many months and then it was passed to him to be carried for the later stages of the pregnancy.

The Enterprise ep was okay. Not great, not bad. I'm quite fond of whatsisname - Skip, is it? No. Trip? Damn. Well, the McCoyish one, whatever he's called.

multiple x-post. (Yeah! McCoy! Damn straight. Or not.)

And there is Real Life mpreg--seahorses. I saw one laying its eggs. Crazy!

(and X-post)

Clearly it's an idea whose time has come.

Trip.

I was also very fond of Alien Nation.