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Prometheus said:
Thoughts?



Many thoughts.

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Let me ask you this: How would that serve the series as a whole?

I mean, I can understand if you have a character...cool...in charge...whatever. And, then, at some point, you hear he has a date on the ship that night. The audience must automatically assume it's some chick. But then BAM!, there he is in Ten Forward with Lt. Kyle Smith!

But, forcing the issue....making a character "just to be gay"...that would be a disservice towards the homosexual community in my view.



I'm sorry, but your view is in error. It fails to grasp a few obvious aspects:

1. there are gay people in the real world; good SF always has something to say about the real world
2. there are TONS of gay Trek fans; to deny them representation within Trek is akin to not having any blacks on the ENTERPRISE.

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It limits their lifestyle to a two-dimensional character trait, as opposed to it just being a fact of their life.



Does it limit any str8 character to depict him or her in a relationship?

I'm not saying "create a queer just to have a queer." I'm saying "create a queer character who's a substantive character."

I do not see how this is so difficult to grasp. When you think it might be a bad thing to do, just substitute the word "black" or "asian" with gay and then rethink your position.

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