Complex sentence: Academic analysis of the episode has placed it within a tradition of science fiction stories depicting aliens with a powerful, supernatural element to their touch; it has also been seen as reflecting anxieties about emerging gender roles in the 1990s.
Split into simpler sentences: Academic analysis of the episode has placed it within a science-fiction tradition that depicts aliens as having a powerful, supernatural element to their touch. It has also been seen as reflecting anxieties about emerging gender roles in the 1990s.