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Trimble remembers several openly gay (and openly flamboyant) "lols" who'd equent the nventns she attend the '70s. That fan empowerment has spilled over creatively, too; 2008, a gay-themed episo lled "Blood and Fire, " penned by well-known Trek screenwrer David Gerrold but origally rejected by Paramount as beg unf for dienc, was brought to life by Star Trek: Phase II, a fan-helmed web seri based on the origal televisn on the stud's part, Trek's progrsive bent has faltered, jt as this generatn's civil rights battle uld e the wh all reboots of beloved seri, the Abrams reimagg of the Star Trek universe has fostered some evable dissent amongst fahfuls.
But s most poted (and salient) crique has been that of a long-empty promise: gay characters on the Enterprise's dialogue between characters about cultural differenc Trek movi and later seri like TNG and Voyager often flirted wh LGBT them. In 2011, Brannon Braga, a producer on The Next Generatn, Voyager and Enterprise, admted regret at not havg phed for gay characters when he had the chance, implyg that still would've been a fight wh the stud and work to get those elements on the small screen. "It's sort of a p-out, and I don't thk that muny appreciat this answer, " says Rod Rodnberry, "but the 23rd and 24th century, and preferably much sooner, whether you are straight, gay, black, whe, male, female, 's a nonissue.
You don't need to see someone walkg around the Enterprise wh a rabow flag, or any of the other stereotypil thgs that would announce that they're gay. I mean, there were terspeci relatnships on Star Trek, so we're jt beyond the pot where homosexualy is an issue.