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Abrams transformed <em>Star Trek</em> to a te mastream h wh his blockbter movie reboot, earng $385 ln worldwi box office and shattered the openg weekend IMAX rerd; wh <em>Star Trek Into Darkns</em> about to h theaters this Friday, he seems poised to do aga.</p><p class="paywall">But long before the 47-year-old anchise was breakg box office rerds, was breakg ground as one of the most forward-thkg anchis televisn and film history. Thanks largely to the (at the time) radil philosophy of creator Gene Rodnberry, the show attracted dienc wh s adventure stori, but kept them wh s utopian optimism: the ia that the ragg tolerance of the day would someday bee a thg of the past, and anyone uld explore the stars if they wanted.</p><p class="paywall">In the future, Rodnberry envisned race and genr as non-issu. He put Japane-Amerin Gee Takei, as Lt. Hika Sulu, at the helm; Ain-Amerin Nichelle Nichols, as Lt. Nyota Uhura, the munitns chair; and even attempted to make the Enterprise's first officer a woman (stud executiv rejected that unsavory ia, so the alien Spock took the job). The equaly on the U.S.S. Enterprise's bridge was a watershed moment, both televisn history and Amerins' unrstandg of social equaly.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">"Most televisn shows, at bt, follow cultural trends. <em>Star Trek</em> had clear-cut ials of s own," wrote Joan Wston, Jacquele Lichtenberg and Sondra Marshak their 1975 book <em>Star Trek Liv!</em>, the first and most five chronicle of the early years of Trek fandom. "No one would claim that <em>Star Trek</em> was the e of all the improvement [we've ma wh problems like racism and sexism]. But is still harr to believe that had no effect, when twenty ln people tuned to <em>Star Trek</em> and saw Mr. Spock beg treated as iend and brother by Capta Kirk, saw the black and the Rsian and the Oriental [sic] and the Southerner and the others treatg each other wh rpect and love."</p><p class="paywall">This herage mak all the more unfortunate that the progrsive valu of the origal seri seem to have faltered—and even begun trailg the mastream—wh the creasgly poted absence of LGBT members later eratns of the anchise, and their failure to treat sexual orientatn like the same sort of non-issue that Rodnberry once envisned for race and genr on the bridge of the Enterprise.</p><h2 class="paywall">Infe Diversy Infe Combatns</h2><p class="paywall"><em>Star Trek</em>'s passnate fan muny has kept afloat for nearly half a century, ntrary to the stereotypil nerdy whe du image many associate wh the <em>Star Trek</em> fandom, some of the most stmental <em>Trek</em> fans have belonged to margalized groups who found empowerment and possibily a futuristic utopian televisn show when they uld not fd the real world.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">"[<em>Star Tre</em>k's clivy] is the only thg that kept alive," Eugene "Rod" Rodnberry, CEO of Rodnberry Entertament and son of <em>Star Trek</em>'s late creator Gene Rodnberry, told Wired. In 2010, Rod released <em>Trek Natn</em>, a documentary that explored his father's egalarian visn and the power gave the Trek fan muny. "It appealed to people who were thkg differently, whether was llege stunts who were prottg the war, or mixed-race upl, or jt people wh different ias. The whole geek/nerd/dork fan movement was a bunch of people who look at life differently. They're the on who are leadg the charge today, not jt wh <em>Star Trek</em>, but also, ankly, the world."</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">Though the show's philosophy no doubt enuraged whe dienc' pacy for unrstandg and tolerance the '60s and '70s, was dog somethg vastly more ncrete for people of lor who were seeg fac like their own on televisn, un-ritured rol, for the first time.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot 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As she explaed to the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> 2011, she'd cid to leave the show and return to Broadway, but a chance troductn at a fundraiser to Dr. Mart Luther Kg, Jr. – the self-proclaimed "biggt Trekkie on the pla" – ma her rensir.</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="q6v38n"></div></div><p class="paywall">"He took my hand and thanked me for meetg him," she remembered, "He then said, 'I am your greatt fan.' All I remember is my mouth openg and shuttg. I thanked him so much and told him how I’d miss all. He asked what I was talkg about, and told me that I [uldn't] leave the show." "You are changg the mds of people across the world, bee for the first time, through you, we see ourselv and what n be," he told her.</p><p class="paywall">Nichols stayed wh the show. In the third and fal season, Uhura and Capta Kirk shared one of the first terracial kiss ever broadst on Amerin televisn. And though wasn't the very first (Nancy Satra and Sammy Davis, Jr. had kissed on-air durg a special a year earlier), beme another watershed event televisn history. Nichols' ntued prence on the bridge had a profound effect on the show's viewers, and was later ced by NASA astront Mae C. Jemison, the first black woman to travel to space 1992, as an spiratn.</p><p class="paywall">The progrsive attu towards race and genr the origal seri also set a precent for later Trek seri and films: <em>The Next Generatn</em> featured Ain-Amerin actors senr engeerg and secury rol; <em>Deep Space Ne</em> starred Avery Brooks as Benjam Sisko, the anchise's first black mandg officer; Voyager featured a female pta, Kathryn Janeway. Whoopi Goldberg, who played the oracular bartenr Guan on <em>TNG</em>, told Nichelle Nichols many years later that watchg Uhura, "a black lady on TV who a't no maid," spired her to bee an actrs the first place. Today, people of all lors and backgrounds workg the scienc (or any field, really) will pot to <em>Star Trek</em> as their early – and often only – spiratn. (Don't believe me? Show up at any Trek nventn and ask around.)</p><p class="paywall">“Imag show possibili,” Dr. Jemison explaed simply 1996. “A lot of tim, fantasy is what gets through to realy.”</p><h2 class="paywall">The Fal Frontier</h2><p class="paywall"><a href="><img src=" alt="" tle="tos-crew"/></a></p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Thanks to the anchise's generally clive iology towards the disenanchised, Trek attracted s share of LGBT fans, as well. 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Started New York 1971 and anized by a female-led mtee (cludg <em>Star Trek Liv!</em> -thor Joan Wston), the nventns acted as a lightng rod for fans of all rac, genrs, and backgrounds to assemble, share experienc, and even produce creative works; media verage datg back to the first nventn reports that fan-ma z dissemated at the meet-ups were created predomately by women and people of lor.</p><p class="paywall">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 <em>Star Trek: Phase II</em>, a fan-helmed web seri based on the origal televisn show.</p><p class="paywall">But on the stud's part, <em>Trek</em>'s progrsive bent has faltered, jt as this generatn's civil rights battle uld e the most.</p><p class="paywall">As wh all reboots of beloved seri, the Abrams reimagg of the <em>Star Trek</em> universe has fostered some evable dissent amongst fahfuls. But s <a href=">most poted (and salient) crique</a> has been that of a long-empty promise: gay characters on the Enterprise's bridge.</p><p class="paywall">Veiled dialogue between characters about cultural differenc <em>Trek</em> movi and later seri like <em>TNG</em> and <em>Voyager</em> often flirted wh LGBT them. Whoopi Goldberg once eded one of her own l, om "When a man and a woman love each other" to "When two people love each other"; another <em>TNG</em> episo featured an alien race that uld be loosely nsired transsexual; another centered around the romantic relatnship between the ship's doctor, Beverly Csher, and an alien that liv wh humanoid hosts (and how cmbled when that alien had to take a female body).</p><p class="paywall">In 1991, Rodnberry told the prs that he planned to add an LGBT character to the <em>TNG</em> st that season, but when he died sudnly a few months after the terview, his promise vaporized. His succsors implemented quasi-transgenr subplots on later episos of <em>Voyager</em> and <em>Deep Space Ne</em> years after his ath, but they were largely plot vic ed as ic relief; nothg as simultaneoly explic and cintal as an telligent munitns officer who jt happens to be a black woman has ever solidified for an LGBT character.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">The anchise's new boss aren't dog much about the ntroversy, eher. In 2011, Brannon Braga, a producer on <em>The Next Generatn</em>, <em>Voyager</em> and <em>Enterprise</em>, <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">admted regret</a> 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.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="tqavjb"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div 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There were people who felt very strongly that we should be showg sually, you know, jt two guys together the background Ten Forward,” Braga told AfterElton.”At the time the cisn was ma not to do that, and I thk those same people would make a different cisn now... It was not a forward thkg cisn.”</p><p class="paywall">The same year, Abrams <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">exprsed surprise</a> when he learned that there had been no openly LGBT characters characters *Star Trek. *He agree that "should happen" the anchise, and that he would brg up wh the wrers of <em>Into Darkns</em>, though he add would be a "a tricky thg" to add anilly. That was nearly two years ago, however, and the ia hasn't been discsed any further, spe nudg om fans and media.</p><p class="paywall">Whether or not an LGBT character will manift on the big screen this Friday remas unknown (if unlikely), but eher way the fact remas: In a post-Rodnberry world, there's no philosophil visnary on <em>Star Trek</em> projects prsurg the stud to ph the socpolil envelope, so there hasn't been much – or any, really – burn to ntue challengg norms.</p><h2 class="paywall">Coppg Out of this World</h2><p class="paywall">Thanks to the succs of the 2009 reboot -- the most succsful <em>Star Trek</em> property ever box office terms -- Paramount has regaed a blockbter anchise wh wi-dience appeal, but there’s no reason to thk would have been any ls succsful if had been more fahful to the anchise's subversive spir. Ignorg social advanc and stymieg the anchise's hallmark iology seems, at bt, to be the path of least ristance.</p><p class="paywall">"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 <em>Star Trek</em>, so we're jt beyond the pot where homosexualy is an issue."</p><p class="paywall">It’s worth notg that Rodnberry’s role as Rodnberry Entertament CEO is largely limed to the licensg of the anchise and th don't clu put on plot cisns; Paramount and CBS, obvly, are the licens' current owners. But the argument he mak is precisely the problem.</p><p class="paywall">In the 1960s, Uhura and Sulu weren't standg on soapbox. They simply did their jobs as senr officers on a starship and jt happened to be people of lor, or women. It was people, not poted plot l, that challenged norms through <em>Star Trek</em>. 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After all, many a heterosexual romance has played out on the <em>Star Trek</em> screen, often volvg notor ladi' men like Kirk and <em>The Next Generatn</em>'s Commanr William Riker. The omissn of a simple homosexual storyle, regardls of how many terspeci or terracial or almost-homosexual romanc have been featured, is still very much a pot of ncern. We are, after all, still livg the 21st century, not the 24th, and would still be signifint to see an LGBT officer servg on the bridge today, much as was to see a black woman the '60s when civil rights battl were beg waged.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-4 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">"I won't say that [Rick] Berman and [Brannon] Braga and Paramount and J.J. [Abrams] don't get ," Rodnberry offers. "I thk they certaly do, but they kd of me on to rry the torch and do the bt they uld to reprent <em>Star Trek</em> and Gene Rodnberry. But they – cludg myself – are not Gene Rodnberry, and therefore 's not anic. It's not g om a visnary, om the creator. The fans have taken over that visn. It's their hands now."</p><p class="paywall">Barrg a remarkable big screen surprise this weekend, seems like for now, that's all we're gog to get.</p><p class="paywall"><em>Updated 5/14/13 11 AM PST to rrect box office total of Star Trek</em>.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="112jc"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 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media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="The 47 Bt Movi on Netflix This Week" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent summary-em__ntent--no-bric"><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM ejgyuy summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-1" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ hEVeCr summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">The 47 Bt Movi on Netflix This Week</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd dyJpMk htqA summary-em__k summary-em__k--extra-spacg">From <em>Someone Great</em> to <em>Marry My Dead Body</em>, here are our picks for the bt streamg tl to feast your ey on.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY iQEKph summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH cExbzu byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name">Matt Kamen</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fRsdsD summary-em summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm gPHrvn" role="button" 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src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent summary-em__ntent--no-bric"><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM ejgyuy summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ hEVeCr summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">The 12 Bt Movi on Amazon Prime Right Now</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd dyJpMk htqA summary-em__k summary-em__k--extra-spacg">From <em>Sh Masked Rir</em> to <em>Brtany Runs a Marathon</em>, the are the mt-watch films on the streamer.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY iQEKph 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tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz gKnDpj"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="The 20 Bt Movi on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent summary-em__ntent--no-bric"><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM ejgyuy summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" 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emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name">Jennifer M. 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SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz gKnDpj"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="The Dark History Oppenheimer Didn't Show" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent summary-em__ntent--no-bric"><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM ejgyuy summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-4" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp 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Dpe beg known as a lear terms of genr and racial tegratn, wasn't until 2017 that the first openly gay characters were troduced a Star Trek televisn show. We talk to curator Margaret Weekamp about Star Trek's history wh LGBTQ+ stori and characters.

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FOR PRI MONTH, WE CELEBRATE STAR TREK’S GAYT MOMENTS

Leonard Nemoy himself gave support 1991, sayg, "It is entirely ftg that gays and lbians will appear unobtsively aboard the Enterprise—neher objects of py nor melodramatic attentn. As stated prevly, TOS did not feature any LGBTQ+ ma characters, but Gee Takei, who portrayed Helmsman Hika Sulu, me out as gay 2005, years after the end of the show's n. Sulu was one of the ma characters on TOS, and to know now that he was portrayed by a gay man who has always champned queer issu mak both Sulu and Takei very important figur Star Trek's queer history.

THE ‘STAR TREK’ CAST ON THE RADIL LGBT+ REPRENTATN OF ‘STRANGE NEW WORLDS’FINAL FRONTIER: PRIDETHE OUT STARS OF “STRANGE NEW WORLDS” DISCS WHAT THE SHOW’S UNAPOLOGETIC PICTN OF QUEERNS AND GENR MEANS TO THEM AND THE “STAR TREK” ANCHISE’S HISTORY OF ALLYSHIP.DAWN ENNISPUBLISHED JUN. 15, 2023 4:35AM EDT PARI DOVIC/PARAMOUNT+WHEN THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE FALLY NTU S VOYAGE THIS WEEK, THE LOUD AND PROUD NTGENT OF LGBTQ+ STAR TREK FANS WILL SEE SOMETHG VERY SPECIAL: THEMSELV, REPRENTED THE 23RD CENTURY.“I LOVE THAT WE’RE PREMIERG DURG PRI MONTH,” ACTOR MELISSA NAVIA TELLS THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED, SPEAKG AHEAD OF THE SEASON 2 LNCH OF STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS JUNE 15 ON PARAMOUNT+. “I FEEL LIKE OUR POSTER IS ABOUT THAT, TOO,” SHE ADDS. PROMOTNAL ADVERTISEMENTS AND VIOS PROMENTLY FEATURE RABOW LORG AND GRAPHICS, MUCH TO NAVIA’S LIGHT. “I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS ON PURPOSE, BUT I’M GOG TO GO AHEAD AND SAY WAS!”ON STRANGE NEW WORLDS, NAVIA PLAYS ERI ORTEGAS, THE PILOT OF THE U.S.S. ENTERPRISE. THE STAR TREK PREQUEL SERI IS SET THE FUTURE, BUT ALSO THE PAST; THE ADVENTUR TAKE PLACE THE 2200S, BUT ’S SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE THOSE PICTED THE ORIGAL SERI OM THE 1960S, WHEN SULU (GEE TAKEI) SERVED AS HELMSMAN UNR WILLIAM SHATNER’S INIC CAPT. JAM T. KIRK.WHEN STRANGE NEW WORLDS LNCHED LAST SUMMER, NAVIA WAS ASKED BY VARIETY ABOUT HER CHARACTER’S ANDROGYNO APPEARANCE AND MEANOR. “I LIKE THAT WE’RE APPROACHG A WAY THAT NOBODY BATS AN EYE. LIKE, THEY SHOULDN’T, RIGHT? EVERYBODY SHOULD BE A B QUEER,” SHE SAID. “I KNOW I GIVE OFF THIS WONRFUL QUEER ENERGY. IT’S JT BEEN A PART OF WHO I AM.” KHAREN HILL/PARAMOUNT+ ALMOST A YEAR LATER, NAVIA TELLS SHE “ABSOLUTELY” STANDS BY THOSE STATEMENTS, AND THE MUNY.“THROUGHOUT MY REER, THE TRANS AND LGBT MUNY HAVE BEEN JT SUCH ROCK STARS FOR ME, TERMS OF PEOPLE WHO LOVE WHAT THEY SEE ME. THEY LOVE WHAT I BRG TO THE SCREEN AND WHAT I BRG TO CHARACTERS,” SHE SAYS. “THE FACT IS, GENR [FLUIDY] PLAYS ALMOST HERENTLY A PART OF ME AND ALWAYS HAS. SO WHENEVER I’M ST THGS, I THK PEOPLE SOMEHOW SEE THAT. [THE LGBT MUNY] HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTELY MY BIGGT FANS.”“I’M QUEER,” SAYS ACTOR JS BH, WHOUT HATN, SPEAKG ABOUT BOTH HER OWN LIFE AWAY OM THE TV SCREEN AND ON THE PARAMOUNT+ STREAMG SERI. “I AM SO LIGHTED THAT THERE'S MORE REPRENTATN FOR ALL EXPRSNS OF SEXUALY AND GENR STAR TREK. THAT’S REALLY EXCG TO ME, AND I’M REALLY PROUD TO BE A PART OF THAT REPRENTATN.” THE ATRALIAN NATIVE RETURNS AS NURSE CHRISTE CHAPEL, WHO THIS RNATN IS AN OPENLY BISEXUAL CHARACTER—BUT STILL WH THE HOTS FOR SPOCK. “I WOULD LIKE TO SEE [SEXUALY AND GENR] EXPLORED MORE FOR CHAPEL AND FOR ANYONE ELSE WHO’S ON THE SHOW,” SAID BH. “THAT IS SOMETHG THAT I THK THE FANDOM REALLY APPRECIAT, AND ’S ALSO A DIRECT REFLECTN OF OUR SOCIETY RIGHT NOW. THE CREASED VISIBILY AND THE CREASED ACCEPTANCE OF QUEER FOLK IS SOMETHG THAT'S BEG CELEBRATED A LOT RIGHT NOW, BUT IS ALSO THREATENED A LOT RIGHT NOW. THERE’S A LOT OF VLENCE TOWARDS PEOPLE WHO ARE QUEER.”BH WAS ALLUDG TO CINTS LIKE THE GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA, BOARD OF EDUTN MEETG THAT EPTED A BRAWL BETWEEN ANTI-LGBTQ+ AND PRO-LGBTQ+ MONSTRATORS THIS MONTH. AND AS THE DAILY BEAST HAS REPORTED, FAR RIGHT EXTREMISTS HAVE BEEN TARGETG SCHOOLS THAT SHOW SUPPORT FOR QUEER STUNTS. BH MENTNS HOW, THROUGHOUT S HISTORY, STAR TREK HAS ADDRSED CURRENT NFLICTS THROUGH SCIENCE FICTN STORYTELLG, OM WAR TO RACISM AND, MORE RECENTLY, LGBTQ+ AND NONBARY CLN.“I THK STAR TREK HAS A CERTA POWER THAT ULD BE ED TO FIGHT THAT [VLENCE],” SHE SAID. “I URGE THE [PRODUCERS] TO DO THAT WH THE WRG. I THK ’S AN OPPORTUNY FOR THEM TO REALLY STEP UP AND STAND BEHD OUR QUEER FANS.” KHAREN HILL/PARAMOUNT+ THOSE FANS HAVE LONG FANTASIZED—AND POSED REAMS OF FAN FICTN—ABOUT A POTENTIAL ROMANCE BETWEEN STAR TREK’S ORIGAL LEAD CHARACTERS, KIRK AND SPOCK, SHIPPG THEM AS “SPIRK.” PL WLEY PLAYS A YOUNG JIM KIRK ON STRANGE NEW WORLDS, WHILE ETHAN PECK, THE GRANDSON OF THE LEGENDARY ACTOR GREGORY PECK, WEARS THE FAMED POTED EARS THIS TIME AROUND.“I DO THK ONE’S RELATNSHIP WH ANOTHER ACTOR OFFSCREEN, OR YOUR GENERAL CHEMISTRY, DO ACTUALLY TRANSLATE ONTO THE SCREEN,” WLEY SAYS. SPOCK MEETS KIRK FOR THE FIRST TIME SEASON 2, AND PECK SAYS THEIR FOUNDATNAL IENDSHIP WAS KEY TO THAT SCENE.“IT REALLY ADD A LOT OF NUANCE TO THAT MOMENT, THE MOMENTO MOMENT THAT THE TWO CHARACTERS MEET,” PECK SAYS, AFTER WHICH WLEY ADPANS: “CAN WE GET ‘SPIRK’ TATTOOS?”CELIA ROSE GOODG IS BREAKG GROUND STRANGE NEW WORLDS, NOT JT AS THE FIRST ACTOR TO PORTRAY MUNITNS OFFICER NYOTA UHURA SCE THE ATH OF THE TRAILBLAZG NICHELLE NICHOLS, BUT ALSO AS THE FIRST QUEER ACTOR TO PLAY THE ROLE. DAWN ENNIS “AS AN OUT QUEER PERSON, AS SOMEONE WHOSE RELATNSHIP WH THEIR GENR IS EVER-EVOLVG AND EVER-CHANGG, IS SO EXCG TO BE A PART OF THIS, PECIALLY PLAYG A ROLE THAT HAS BEEN ORIGATED BY CIS WOMEN AND HAS HISTORILLY ONLY BEEN PLAYED BY CIS WOMEN,” GOODG SAYS, ADDG THAT SHE IS HUMBLED TO BE TSTED WH UHURA’S STORY.“TO THE TRANS AND NONBARY QUEER MUNY, KNOW THAT THERE IS AN ENTIRE ST OF PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DO RIGHT BY Y’ALL AND WANT TO REPRENT Y’ALL A WAY THAT IS HUMAN AND TE AND BETIFUL AND LOVELY. AND TO HAVE YOUR SUPPORT MEANS THE MOON AND BEYOND TO ALL OF , BUT PECIALLY TO ME, BEE I AM SOMEONE WHO HAS LEARNED THE MOST ABOUT MYSELF OM QUEER PEOPLE, AND AS SOMEONE WHO IS MYSELF EVERY DAY AND HAS TO SHOW UP AS MYSELF TO PLAY THIS CHARACTER,” GOODG SAYS.“IT JT MEANS A LOT TO ME TO BE A PART OF THIS AND TO BE JT A SMALL PIECE OF AN CREDIBLY LIC ANCHISE PIE AND HAVE MY LTLE QUEER STAMP ON AND SAY, ‘A QUEER PERSON WAS HERE AND REPRISED THE ROLE AND MA SURE THAT EVERYONE KNEW THAT THIS PERSON IS HERE AND IS PROUD TO BE A PART OF THIS MUNY AND HAS A ROLE TO PLAY STAR TREK.’” REBEC ROMIJN, WHO FANS MAY RELL AS MYSTIQUE THE FIRST THREE X-MEN MOVI, PLAYS A CHARACTER WHO WAS HIDG A TERRIBLE SECRET THAT WAS EXPOSED THE FIRST SEASON. THE REVELATN RULTED HER ARRT THE SEASON FALE, AND SHE WILL GO ON TRIAL THE SEND EPISO OF THIS SEND SEASON. ROMIJN’S CHARACTER IS UNA CH-RILEY, AN “GMENT,” MEANG SHE IS THE RULT OF GEIC ENGEERG, WHICH IS BANNED BY STARFLEET AND THE FERATN. SHE IS THE ENTERPRISE’S FIRST OFFICER AND CAPT. PIKE’S “NUMBER ONE.”GIVEN THAT ROMIJN ALSO PREVLY PLAYED A TRANS WOMAN ON TV’S UGLY BETTY, WE ASKED HER IF SHE SAW A PARALLEL BETWEEN HER CHARACTERS’ EXPERIENC AND THE WAY SOCIETY TREATS TRANS PEOPLE AS OUTSTS.“IT'S LIKE THE THREE CHARACTERS KEEP G BACK MY LIFE AND I LOVE ,” ROMIJN SAYS. “EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE THIS UTOPIAN, FUTURISTIC WORLD TREK, SOMETIM WE STILL GRAPPLE WH THE VERY HUMAN ISSU LIKE PREJUDICE AND PERSECUTN. THAT EPISO REALLY PUTS THE SPOTLIGHT ON THAT. I THK THAT THE MSAGE THAT UNA WANTS TO SEND IS, JT BEE I N HI DON'T MEAN I SHOULD HAVE TO. AND I WOULD LIKE TO THK THAT'S WHAT A LOT OF TRANS PEOPLE FEEL LIKE, TOO.”ROMIJN ALSO SHOUTS OUT JSE JAM KEEL, THE OUT TRANS ACTOR WHO PLAYED A NONBARY VILLA A GROUNDBREAKG SEASON 1 EPISO DIRECTED BY A TRANS WOMAN, SYDNEY FREELAND. “HAVG THAT EPISO WH THEM, WH JSE JAM KEEL, SHE WAS SO AMAZG ON OUR SHOW. WE JT N’T WA TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO BRG HER BACK.” KHAREN HILL/PARAMOUNT+ IT’S CLEAR THAT THE STARS OF STRANGE NEW WORLD KNOW HOW POWERFUL AND HOW RADIL THE SHOW’S LGBT+ REPRENTATN IS.AS AN ACTIVE ER OF SOCIAL MEDIA, NAVIA HAS HEARD OM QUEER FANS, ASKG ABOUT HER CHARACTER’S LOVE LIFE. “I KNOW PEOPLE WANT TO SEE MORE OF ORTEGAS TERMS OF HER RELATNSHIPS AND WHAT I WOULD SAY TO THAT IS, ‘JT HANG ON. HANG ON FOR SURE!’” SHE SAYS. “I N'T WA TO SEE WHAT FANS AND PECIALLY THE TRANS AND LGBT MUNY NTUE TO SEE ORTEGAS. AND HEARG OM THEM ALSO SPIR A LOT OF WHAT WE THEN BRG TO THE ROLE. SO, THANK YOU TO THEM AND, YEAH, PRI MONTH: LET'S DO !”KEEP OBSSG! SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK, TWTER, INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK. DAWN ENNIS

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