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NEW 'STAR TREK' TV SERI TO HAVE FEMALE LEAD AND OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
The first openly gay seri regulars weren’t troduced to the Trek universe until 2017 (y, you read that rrectly) the form of Star Trek: Disvery’s Pl Stamets and Hugh Culbert. In fact, back when the character was first troduced on Voyager, there was a not signifint amount of fan speculatn that Seven would turn out to be gay, but for var reasons that velopment never panned out. 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.
Though Kate Mulgrew fought to have an openly homosexual or bisexual character on Star Trek: Voyager, Paramount wouldn't allow (Mulgrew would have even played the character herself if necsary).
Kate Mulgrew Fought Hard For A Gay Character To Be On Voyager.