Star Trek’s First Gay Couple That Wasn’t - The Stranger

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STAR TREK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE THAT WASN’T

So why did DS9’s producers ci to take such a huge risk wh a gay uple on their new show? Creator Gene Rodnberry promised that there would be gay characters, and wrer David Gerrold even wrote a script to fulfill that promise for TNG’s first season.

They axed the script wh two gay men; when Gene proposed showg same-sex upl the background, they told a wrer to ignore him.

Years later, shownner and wrer Ira Steven Behr would exprs remorse at their failure to plumb those pths, and said that he wished they’d had Garak e out as gay so they uld have explored the relatnship further.

"JULIAN BASHIR WAS D AS GAY"

This is the story of Julian Bashir and Elim Garak—the gay relatnship on Star Trek: Deep Space Ne that never was.

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