Star Trek’s First Gay Couple That Wasn’t - The Stranger

Contents:

• WAS PIRD GAY?
• IS PATRICK STEWART GAY? THE GUARDIAN FALSELY "OUTS" CAPTA PIRD AFTER HE CONGRATULAT ELLEN PAGE ON COMG OUT
• STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T

WAS PIRD GAY?

Jeri Ryan's reformed B drone was troduced to Star Trek: Voyager wh a lot of fan hope and speculatn that she would be gay, but that never panned out.

While the Star Trek anchise has long drawn members of the LGBTQ muny, and prompted speculatn that a number of characters throughout s long history f somewhere unr the LGBTQ umbrella themselv, the actual reprentatn has been slow very first openly gay Star Trek character didn’t e until 2017, when Star Trek: Disvery troduced married uple Pl Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Hugh Culber (Wilson Cz) now, Star Trek: Pird has given fans a new gift, seemgly revealg that a classic character has been queer all Ryan’s Seven of Ne was first troduced back Star Trek: Voyager, and while that seri didn’t explicly portray her character as queer, Pird has been htg at as much throughout the first season. ”But this isn’t a non-nonil, after-the-fact reveal a la “Dumbledore was gay all along. The season 1 fale of Star Trek: Pird end wh an eyebrow-raisg nfirmatn that Seven of Ne (Jeri Ryan) is gay - and she rocketed to space hand--hand wh a new flame, Raffi Miker (Michelle Hurd).

IS PATRICK STEWART GAY? THE GUARDIAN FALSELY "OUTS" CAPTA PIRD AFTER HE CONGRATULAT ELLEN PAGE ON COMG OUT

And as if that wasn't queer enough, Q then go on to tnt Jean-Luc about his relatnship wh Marta, the implitn beg that Q don't 's no wonr then that The Advote, even back 1995, cid to qutn Patrick Stewart about the possibily of Q beg queer — or "gay" as they put (terview reproduced here and here).

" The Advote then went one step further wh this theory by suggtg that, "If Q is the eed nature of Pird, and Q might be gay, is there some possibily Pird is reprsg homoerotic parts of himself? Even Patrick Stewart himself was well aware of the homoerotic unrton of his character's relatnship wh Q, even if Pird didn't necsarily reciprote — or outright adm — those feelgs the same way that Q always be fair, was the '90s, so any homoeroticism to be found this iendship was forced to rema implic regardls.

In an earlier 1991 issue of The Advote (via The Salon), Gene Rodnberry was quoted as sayg, "In the fifth season of Star Trek: The Next Generatn, viewers will see more of shipboard life some episos, which will clu gay crew members day-to-day circumstanc.

STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T

It was also a shame to Patrick Stewart as well, as far back as 1995 when he lamented the fact that no gay people uld see themselv on a show that's supposed to reprent a future utopia: "I thk gay people would probably feel dismayed, " Patrick told The Advote.