Was Lt. Hawk Star Trek: First Contact Origally Gog to be Gay?

Contents:

• WAS LT. HAWK STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT ORIGALLY GOG TO BE GAY?
• IS NEAL MCDONOUGH GAY?
• NEAL MCDONOUGH GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 75 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY

WAS LT. HAWK STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT ORIGALLY GOG TO BE GAY?

Hawk Star Trek: First Contact was origally tend to be gay.

IS NEAL MCDONOUGH GAY?

MOVIE URBAN LEGEND: Neal McDonough's character Star Trek: First Contact, Litenant Hawk, was origally tend to be gay. Before the film was released, there were a number of mors that McDonough's character was gog to be gay, which would have been a big al, sce Star Trek really did not do very well when me to pictns of gay people ( fact, I have done a legend the past about how an episo of Next Generatn featurg two gay crewmembers was never filmed for the seri). Six years after First Contact was released, Rick Berman, the Paramount executive charge of Star Trek, remarked about var mors about gay characters the Star Trek universe, “That was really the wishful thkg of some people who were nstantly at .

But we don't see heterosexual upl holdg hands on the show, so would be somewhat dishont of to see two gay men or lbians holdg hands. Jt notg that when you have a guy like that charge of the anchise, 's pretty clear that was unlikely that there ever was a chance of Hawk actually beg gay at the time.

There is no mentn of Hawk beg gay . That said, not one sgle actor, staff member, or Paramount employee has ever once fend him om charg of homophobia, and many have acced him of . "Berman was ultimately rponsible for killg almost every pch for gay characters, and terviews, was mealy-mouthed and wafflg about the need for GLB T reprentatn.

NEAL MCDONOUGH GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 75 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY

From the rmatn and evince I've seen, heard, and read, I believe that Berman is the reason we never saw gays on Star Trek I shed no tears that he's gone, except that he did his bt to the anchise on his way out.

However, Mangels ALSO noted that same Michael Ricci article, "Mangels believed the mor of Hawk's beg gay to be unte. Here is McDonough on The View back 2009 and he do, fact, note that he never knew Hawk was gay, so obvly wasn't somethg told to him at the time... Instead, was Mangels who fally paid off on the mors by revealg that Hawk WAS gay the Star Trek Sectn 31 novel, Star Trek: Rogue 2001...

Fan mors had swirled for years that Hawk's character was tend to be gay Star Trek: First Contact — and he is the novel — but McDonough adms he didn't know about those plans for the movie. So yeah, Hawk ultimately WAS revealed to be gay, but was almost certaly not origally tend as such, which is why I'm nfint wh gog wh the legend as..