A group of fans have broken the rainbow barrier in Star Trek with Star Trek: Hidden Frontier. Kudos, I say! As a gay Trekker, I've always been miffed at the lack of homo-ness in the various series (George Takei and one lesbo episode with Terry Farrell kissing a girl do not count). It's like, "Yes, we have a tolerant, peaceful Federation of worlds, represented by a Starfleet filled with a politically correct diversity of races, species, and genders, but certainly no fags! Nope, got rid of all them in the Eugenics Wars or something. Can't have those kind of people in space."
One peeve, though. Look at the tagline at the bottom of the poster shown: "A Frontier Beyond The Rest"? Really? Is that the best they could come up with?
(Oh, and in other gay nerdiness, Spider Man comes out.)
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Exactly. They could have done so much, without making a big deal about it. I can recall two instances of non-conventional sexuality in the Next Generation:
There is a moment in First Contact, shortly after the Borg Queen propositions Data, where we briefly see several pairs of drone hands running over Data's body.
There was also an episode when (the ever annoying) Colonel Ryker falls for a genderless alien.
It's as if they wanted to do something, but chickened out at the last.
Lieutenant Hawk from First Contact was also supposed to be gay, but it never made it into the movie (though it did end up in the books). Also notice that the alien Riker fell for from the "genderless" species was "perverted" because she felt female, so no hint of homosexuality there!
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