After three s and four seri, the Starship Enterprise has never seen a gay ensign. Will "Star Trek" ever cross the fal ontier?
Contents:
- STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T
- STAR TREK INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY COUPLE TO THE UNIVERSE
- GAY "TREK"
- ‘DISVERY’ WILL INCLU STAR TREK’S FIRST OPENLY GAY COUPLE ON TV
STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T
Ian Alexanr and Blu l Barr will appear the third season of CBS Televisn's Star Trek: Disvery — a show which broke boundari by featurg a married gay uple as central characters for the first time the anchise's history. * star trek gay couple *
So why did DS9’s producers ci to take such a huge risk wh a gay uple on their new show? Creator Gene Rodnberry promised that there would be gay characters, and wrer David Gerrold even wrote a script to fulfill that promise for TNG’s first season. They axed the script wh two gay men; when Gene proposed showg same-sex upl the background, they told a wrer to ignore him.
STAR TREK INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY COUPLE TO THE UNIVERSE
Years later, shownner and wrer Ira Steven Behr would exprs remorse at their failure to plumb those pths, and said that he wished they’d had Garak e out as gay so they uld have explored the relatnship further.
Star Trek: Disvery has boldly gone where no Star Trek show has gone CBS: All Accs drama troduced a gay uple to s dience Sunday -- a first the long-nng televisn anchise. Pl Stamets, ma history when he was troduced episo 3, beg the first clearly gay character this universe. 1508180517Star Trek: Disvery was -created by an out gay man, Bryan Fuller.
Although Fuller has left the seri due to schlg nflicts, Aaron Harberts, who is also gay, remas as the shownner.
GAY "TREK"
“My attu toward homosexualy has changed,” he told The Humanist 1991. I have, over many years, changed my attu about gay men and women.”.
‘DISVERY’ WILL INCLU STAR TREK’S FIRST OPENLY GAY COUPLE ON TV
Even after his ath, took another 28 years for the first gay character to appear Star Trek’s televisn seri (although y, novel tie-s, ics, fan works, and other non-nonil media featured a markedly improved number of LGBT Starfleet officers).