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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] Exactly. Who can say what it is to be gay? Chances are they'd just fuck it up, you'd get [i]Will and Grace in Space[/i]. Which is actually quite a catchy title. . . So ultimately it comes down to sex, and - I'm sure this will bring a chorus of dissenting voices, but here goes - [i]Star Trek[/i] isn't about sex. Or love. How can it be? The constraints of a weekly hour-long family-oriented show make it impossible. Homosexuality in [i]Star Trek[/i]? There's barely any heterosexuality! In all the 500+ hours of episodic Trek, how many brief relationships (of which more in a second) have there been? Not many, really. And how many lasting relationships? Even fewer? And of those, how many actually seemed to work and were handled well? About one - Sisko & Kassidy Yates. Going back to the brief relationships: usually they've been of the format "cast member X meets guest star Y, but ultimately circumstance Z means they cannot continue the relationship." The days of TNG, when it was like they were taking it in turns to fall in love each week, are mercifully over - mostly. And - to me at least - these couplings devalued the whole thing. I don't want to come over as a 'shipper, but the way that, for example, Picard & Nella Darren clicked, then separated for the most simplistic of reasons, just pissed me off. Now, given all that, how could they make a homosexual character work? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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