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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MrNeutron: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [qb]I could do without watching male-female tonsil-hockey, as well, you know. It distracts from the story.[/qb][/QUOTE]But we see it on Star Trek all the time, from Captain Kirk and the gogo-booted babe of the week to Picard and Vash and Paris and Torres and on and on and on. [QUOTE][qb]Personally, I figure that TPTB realized that having a gay character would do NOTHING for the storyline, provide no real opportunities for storytelling, and alienate just enough of their already-small audience to make the act unwise.[/qb][/QUOTE]It provides exactly as many "opportunities for storytelling" as hetero relationships do. And they didn't always have a small audience. TNG was a top rated syndicated drama in its time. Their ratings problems now aren't the issue, it's the history of the entire thing. [QUOTE][qb]"Well, then you could write a story about that character's gayness!" "Just like all those stories about Sulu's orientalness and Geordi's blackness, right?" :rolleyes: In the trekverse, differences like race and sexuality are NOT focused on. Nobody CARES. Writing a gay character just to have a gay character is the OPPOSITE of your goal, here. [/qb][/QUOTE]Lumping ethicity and sexuality into the same boat proves my point, because while many ethnicities are represented in Trek without comment, only heterosexuality is presented week after week, series after series, and made story points (Picard and Vash, Riker and Troi, Riker and the babes in Angel One, Troi and Worf, Worf and Dax, Sisko and Cassiday, etc, etc). Alternatives are almost never presented [i]without[/i] making an issue of it (The Choice, Mirror Kira, etc.). I still don't see how having a character who happens to be gay is making "a story about that character's gayness!" while having characters who happen to be straight is not telling "stories about their straightness"? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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