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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.
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 WAS D AS GAY"
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. There's a gay uple Disvery, played by Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cz.