Spoilers 1st openly gay character.
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My impression of Stamets was that he is serious, a little snarky and possibly has a chip on his shoulder. He's a dedicated follower of mushrooms. He doesn't exude sex appeal (though being female I might not be seeing it, even though I can still see appeal in another woman), so he might have trouble getting himself a love or sex interest. Still he might catch Saru's beady little eye, but he has no great liking for his Captain. I wonder what the rules are for dalliances on the Star ship are anyway? I remember with Voyager thinking that given the limited pool of partners (stranded in the Delta Quadrant) that they would be at it like rabbits, but I think only Tom and B'Ellana actually procreated. I guess the others were inter-relating too but it wasn't necessary for the story lines.
So far as I know, he has a relationship with the ship's Doctor, Hugh Culbert. We haven't met Dr. Culbert yet in the series, but apparently he and Stamets are partners.
Fraternization is allowed throughout Starfleet, as long as it's consensual for all involved.
Oh thank you. I missed that.
You missed the 18 rated episodes then?
Were they really? Did they seem.. rate worthy?
They went where no man has gone before...
That can happen when you're exploring strange new worlds..
Seeking out new life and new civilizations...
Making new Discoveries!
That lofty spirit, that sense of...Enterprise!
(I'm sorry. I drifted. I'm back now).
I mean seriously, you are in a self contained mini world which maintains all your needs, with very little hope of getting home even if you try on a ship which left to it's own devices floating in space can pretty much sustain every aspect of it's internal environment, feed you and deal automatically with all your waste products and medical needs.
You are surrounded by hundreds of attractive people all equally stuck for a purpose to existence.
What exactly would you do to fill your time?
You are surrounded by hundreds of attractive people all equally stuck for a purpose to existence.
What exactly would you do to fill your time?
Work on my model train layout.
I forgot the other part of what I said, when I'm not with Gaila or the unnamed Orion girl in the 2009 movie!
I basically said the same thing way back when the news was first announced.
I mean, even staying strictly skiffy, look at the DCWverse. What do they have five or six gay main/recurring characters (with one more on the way) and one bisexual between them?
Never mind all the adult drama on TV.
Yup. It would have been way more ambitious to have a trans character.
Or better yet, given Star Trek medical wizardry, I see a lot of potential to have a truly gender-fluid character.
A thousand times this. Never understood why so many sci-fi fans abhor romance in their fiction. Of course (!) that romance should be done well on the show, no question about that. But just completely erasing it makes no sense whatsoever, because it's intrinsically linked to people and their experiences; and in the end that's what fiction should be about.
Yeah, no. The shows are written for today's audience, not that of the 23rd/24th century. In this day and age representation of homosexuality in media has still an important role to play. Just assuming “it has always been there” but unseen in the background just isn't enough. Let's talk about it again when it's actually the 23rd century.
Wasn't that a Kinks song?
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