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the G-man said:
Maybe they eliminated the gene for homosexuality in the future...perhaps during the eugenics wars involving Kahn.


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Jim Jackson said:
That's a fairly assinine remark. I'll just view it as you being silly and give it no more credence.



Okay, it was a little silly. However...

As I recall, there are a number of Trek episodes, both in the original series and beyond, that hint there were some dark eras of human history between "our" time and the time of Trek. For example, the genetic supermen war that Kahn was involved in.

If there was genetic tinkering going on in the past, during an unenlightened time period, whos to say that some "President Falwell" didn't give the order to eliminate the gene that causes homosexuality, on the theory that homosexuals don't allow for efficient expansion of the species?

Unless the writers were to stack the deck to make that genetic tinkering seem like a good idea (unlikely) why couldn't there be a suitably enlightended Trek backstory to explain that's why there are no "gays in space"?