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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. This is the story of Julian Bashir and Elim Garak—the gay relatnship on Star Trek: Deep Space Ne that never was. He’s not gay, he’s not straight, ’s a non-issue for him.
"JULIAN BASHIR WAS D AS GAY"
While the pair may not be Star Trek’s first nonil gay relatnship, they will always be remembered as the romance that uld have been. Julian Bashir, revealg the character was gay (or bisexual, pendg on how you terpret Garak's relatnship wh Tora Ziyal).
"There was a nversatn, I know, the offic the Rodnberry Buildg, which is where the show was produced om, I know that there was a nversatn about whether or not we were gog to troduce a gay uple, " Burton said.