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  •  Sulu I'll take. (none / 1)

    He gets to be on my side. Not Mayor West of Spokane, not JimmyJeff. But Sulu, sure.

    Remember when that show modelled a multi-racial society at a time when it actually maybe meant something? The heart was in the right place. Pity the franchise never took that one small step to a society that accepted sexual/gender minorities as well, something noted by Whoopi as she left.

    What's so hard about Peace, Love, and Truth and Progress?

    by melvin on Thu Oct 27, 2005 at 07:53:32 PM PDT

    •  Yeah, that sucked big time. (none / 0)

      It was absolutely unforgiveable that they couldn't scrape up one lousy gay character in all those years/series/movies.

      I don't care if their demographic was post-adolescent males or whatever.

      Well Dayum! The Fat Lady just sang her tits right off!

      by homogenius on Thu Oct 27, 2005 at 07:58:29 PM PDT

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      •  Isn't it a little tough (none / 0)

        to have only one? I mean, if it's gay to fiddle with your own wedding tackle, then I'm as gay as it gets.
        Yeah, especially with all the rutting and groping on the one I started referring to as "Deep Throat Nine" you'd have thunk somebody might have been a little adventurous like that.

        The lone and level sands stretch far away. -Shelley

        by justme on Thu Oct 27, 2005 at 08:48:01 PM PDT

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    •  They did do one episode of The Next Generation... (none / 0)

      ...that addressed the issue, albeit in a coded way.

      There was a planet where all the inhabitants were androgynous, reproducing asexually.  But a small minority felt themselves to have male or female sexual orientations.  They were treated as criminals and mentally ill by their government.

      Commander Riker fell in love (yeah, in 20 minutes, as usual on Star Trek) with one of the natives who had a female orientation.  Riker and Worf ended up doing an implausible commando raid, tacitly authorized by Capt. Picard, to rescue her from the mental hospital where she was being reprogrammed... but I think they were too late.

      I guess in the late '80s/early '90s, American TV was not quite brave enough to have an openly gay character that wasn't just treated as a running joke.  But at least ST:TNG took a stab at confronting anti-gay prejudice.

      by MaximusNYC on Thu Oct 27, 2005 at 10:03:35 PM PDT

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