In which ComicWatch reviewer J.A. Fludd has a personal chat wh Star Trek lumary and gay thor David Gerrold—the man who, among other thgs, troduced the prolific, purrg tribbl to the Trek universe!
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David Gerrold, who had wrten several episos of The Origal Seri as well as The Animated Seri, pched a script that featured a gay uple and an AIDS allegory: “Blood and Fire”. Ignorance and homophobia had ed people to stop donatg blood. This would have been the only mentn of their same-sex relatnship, the thkg beg that the twenty-fourth century, homosexualy would no longer be an issue.
“People plaed the script had blatant homosexual characters, ” he told Cefantastique. He wrote a memo, remdg the staff of Rodnberry’s promise to have gay characters on the show:. Shortly after the new seri was announced, Gerrold and Rodnberry attend a Q&A ssn at a Star Trek nventn, where someone asked if there would be any reprentatn of gay characters on the show.
So now Gene and I appeared at a Star Trek nventn November of 1986 and somebody asked “Will there be gay people aboard the Enterprise? ” And Gene – to give him cred for knowg the right thg to say at the right time – said “Y, is time, we should show gay people on board the Enterprise. Gerrold ced Rodnberry’s enthiasm for portrayg gay characters — as well as a note om producer Rick Berman that suggted tacklg the subject of AIDS — as he began craftg his first script for the seri, tled “Blood and Fire.