Contents:
- BRYAN FULLER PRAIS HOW ‘STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NE’ PAVED A GAY WAY FOR ‘DISVERY’
- STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NE ACTOR WANTED HIS CHARACTER TO BE OPENLY GAY
- STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T
- STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NE DOC CONFIRMS ONE CHARACTER WAS GAY ALL ALONG
- DEEP SPACE NE: THE GAYT STAR TREK
- STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NE DOCUMENTARY CONFIRMS FAN FAVORE CHARACTER WAS GAY
BRYAN FULLER PRAIS HOW ‘STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NE’ PAVED A GAY WAY FOR ‘DISVERY’
Premierg 2017 to cril and fan acclaim, “Star Trek: Disvery” featured out gay actors (and origal “Rent” -stars) Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cz as chief engeer Pl Stamets and his hband Hugh Culber, rpectively.
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NE ACTOR WANTED HIS CHARACTER TO BE OPENLY GAY
Together, they ma history as the first out gay uple on any “Star Trek” anchise, and that’s somethg seri -creator Bryan Fuller is very proud of. Dpe homophobic phback, Deep Space Ne gave some fantastic queer stori - even if they were never "officially" queer.
STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T
Star Trek managed to predict mobile phon, headsets, and Alexa, but uldn’t que predict gay people. Oh, and they wanted to panr to homophobic viewers. This was somethg wrers of the time had to adapt to - gettg the gays their shows whout offendg the nservative crowd, or providg enough subtext for queer viewers to pick apart and claim as their own as a slight form of reprentatn.
As a rult, media of the 1990s and 2000s is filled wh allegori for gay people, but few actual ncrete exampl of them.
The latter optn gave the bt and worst “gay” characters media.
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NE DOC CONFIRMS ONE CHARACTER WAS GAY ALL ALONG
The biggt problem here is that ’s meant to be a pro-gay story, but the ma pair are fightg to be heteronormative. This is what you get when you have too many oks the kchen, and none of them are gay.
DEEP SPACE NE: THE GAYT STAR TREK
In the same 2001 article that quot Frak, queer fans also say that the episo giv the imprsn that the J'naii are the gay on - and they sound like somethg “right om Rh Limbgh's show”, wh “genr viants” stroyg the tradnal, heterosexual fay. So, Star Trek had already tried both the gay allegory and queer dg approach, and failed pretty goddamn badly. Deep Space Ne was, and still is, a show for the gays.
The Outst was wrten to plate homophobic censorship, whereas Deep Space Ne’s queer rep phed to the lim.
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NE DOCUMENTARY CONFIRMS FAN FAVORE CHARACTER WAS GAY
Perhaps bee misgenrg Dax is not treated as a big al until the last season (the pta’s nickname for her is ‘old man’), but also bee she stole the show by makg another piece of Star Trek history: the first gay kiss. Sure, ’s not actual homophobia, but here ’s impossible to see the bad guys as the gay on.
They’re obvly an allegory for homophob.