Gays in star trek

Star Trek: A Queer History Of The Franchise

The Star Trek franchise has always been known to urge the boundaries of what is acceptable on mainstream television, and one of the ways it has done this is with explorations of LGBTQ+ themes. Star Trek: The Imaginative Series kicked off the franchise in 1966, in a decade where a lot of social norms were in flux. The topics of race, gender, and sexuality were all organism brought to the forefront of the public thought, and TOS began the tradition of using episodes to contain a mirror up to the social and political issues of the morning. Following in the footsteps of TOS, every Star Trek captain and crew have since continued the trend of addressing pertinent real-world topics.

It is worth noting that, while TOS was a trendsetter in its storylines about race and gender politics, the show never had any explicit representation of gay characters, and neither did Star Trek: The Next Generation. During the period it was airing, there were a considerable number of established rules about what was and was not regarded as acceptable to show on network television. TOS got away with a lot that the network may contain not wanted it to sho

Star Trek and Homosexuality

this topic always puzzled me in star trek,there were no gay characters at all in the TREK universe,seems weird since it is a very advance stage of society were everyone is beyond insignificant hate/discrimination.
in addition i read many interviews with Gene and some other writters,all of them were really interested in making a queer couple as part of a trek series.

In an interview with gene,he said he was thinking about inserting a gay couple in season 5 and later,1 of the personality would be close to Diana...he died before he could do that.

i also read about DS9 wanting to create a gay secondary character on the station,but was refused by the network and the idea was not supported by Berman.

as for VOY,the concept of seven of nine was first written as Female who later discovers her homosexuality,and that she would be the first in the trek franchise that also was removed by the network.

on ENT it was stated very publicly the first season that Malcom reed is gonna participate the first homosexual male,also edited later on...

most of the explanations are that the homosexual concept would be too new for the franchise etc...

Kate Mulgrew when asked about

Homosexuality in Star Trek

Homosexuality has a firm place in official Star Trek now, so this topic can be closed.

In Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future there is no place for racial stereotypes as they were still commonplace in the 1960s, or for traditional gender roles. At least theoretically. We need to bear in mind that the first Star Trek had three white men in the key roles, and that it was made under the surveillance of conservative network directors. They reportedly wanted to get rid of the alien Spock as well as of "Number One", the gal in a commanding position. Yet, in the obeying the series spoke out against the preconceptions and prejudices of the hour on many occasions. Sometimes by breaking taboos love with Uhura's and Kirk's interracial kiss in TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren" - although that kiss was forced. A certain degree of racism and sexism still exists in today's culture and occasionally shows up in TV programs. But all in all, in the past few decades the question of skin color and gender on screen has become a non-issue, so that the decision to get a black commander for Profound Space 9 or a female captain on Voyager was not anywhere as bold as it would

If you haven’t been watching Star Trek: Strange Fresh Worlds, and you missing the ‘classic’ Star Trek where they went off and had semi-complicated adventures, but with modern sensibilities, then you have been missing out.

Classic Beginnings

I can’t remember when I first watched Star Trek, not exactly.

I remember sitting in a room we called ‘the pit’ which was the TV/play room at my parents’ house, on a battered brown couch that eventually moved with us from Cleveland to San Diego, with my cousin, who eventually moved in with us. I remember the teeny tiny TV, a terrible earache, and I really can’t remember what the episode was about.

But forty-odd years later, I can select out any episode of Classic Trek and recall most (if not all) of it.

Favourite characters? Spock and McCoy, followed by Scotty and Uhura. Oh and Nurse Chapel.

I totally shipped Spock and Christine. I didn’t know what shipping was back then, but I loved them together, and “Amok Time” became one of my favourite episodes for so many reasons. The bromance between Spock and Kirk, the third wheel snarking of McCoy, and that smile at the finish when