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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] For those of you who think trek "needs" a gay character, and use Trek's history of racial diversity as an example, you should first consider how that's going to be 'shown.' I mean, it was pretty damned obvious to everybody that Uhura was Black, and Sulu was Asian, and nobody ever made an issue of it, and there was almost no focus at all on that aspect of their characters. They were simply 'humans.' Their parts could have been played by any person of any race, as could many other minority parts on Star Trek, except when the character's background becomes of some importance to plotlines (like Chekov's "Russian joke" Chakotay's Indian spirituality, or Janeway's Irish heritage.) And even then, had they been some other nationality, that could have been written around as well. To put a gay character on would necessitate SHOWING everybody his/her 'gayness,' in an OBVIOUS format, (since gay folks are generally indistinguishable from everybody else) thus running contrary to Trek's history of ignoring human differences in favor of commonality. It would, instead, be making an issue out of it. At least, that's what I think. I could be wrong. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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