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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And Frakes was down with his interest being played by a man.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I know. It should have been a man. It’s ridiculous that the first positive queer characters on Star Trek were on Discovery. It shouldn’t have taken that long.

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    • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ira Stephen Behr and Ronald D. Moore later lamented that they didn’t push back harder against Berman and other producers for queer representation on DS9 in the DS9 documentary What We Left Behind. They notably had tried in the beginning with Garak and Bashir and were immediately shut down.

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      • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        All I’m saying is they had daily lunch dates and Bashir doesn’t pursue Dax as much when Garak is around.

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      • Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        From what I understand, the bigger issue was that the producers thought the networks would get cagey if they went any further with queer representation. You must sadly remember that this was the 90s - not even ten years since a White House press secretary had openly laughed in a press conference about gay people dying of AIDS.

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• TubeTalkerX@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To quote Neelix from Avenue 5:

  “A hole’s a hole, I'll take it where I can get it“

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Now quote Neelix from Benson!

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    • TubeTalkerX@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What are you saying Benson?

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