Does Stamets have a partner/husband?

[Michael]

I'm confused about the leap from “promiscuous gay men” to “sex scenes”. What has one to do with the other? Would you suspect they'll incorporate sex scenes, too, if they had a promiscuous heterosexual character?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

My only concern if Stamets were to have a husband back home, he's then cut off from romantic entanglement plots (which can be great or awful) and we'd lose that character development. Also, that COULD be construed at "we're willing to have a gay character as long as we don't have to deal with that aspect of his life." In all the Star Trek series after TOS, I think nearly every character has had their own flirtation episodes. I'm not suggesting in any way that I want Discovery to be a soap! I would just like to not have Stamets locked out of something from the get go.

I agree with that line of thinking. Doctor Who has handled this just fine without people losing their shit best that I can tell so I don't see why this has to be a big deal. And Who doesn't present its gay characters as chaste, either.

 

[SPCTRE]

One thing most Star Trek incarnations never really dealt with was the idea that crew members are away from their families, such as is the case in real life with the crew of a Navy ship.

They touched upon it a little in Voyager with Janeway being away from Mark, and Tuvoc being away from his family, but only a little -- and mostly because of the specific situation with Voyager being so far from home.

I always thought Star Trek should have at least one crew member (in the main cast) who sometimes struggles with the real-life difficulties of being away from a husband, wife, domestic partner, and/or children. Stamets could be that character in this incarnation of Trek.

TNG/DS9 touched on this a little with Keiko's and Miles' marriage, but I agree with your overall point.

 

[BRT]

I'm confused about the leap from “promiscuous gay men” to “sex scenes”. What has one to do with the other? Would you suspect they'll incorporate sex scenes, too, if they had a promiscuous heterosexual character?

I'm not expecting ANY sex scenes. But if there were to be any, I'm not someone who will be judging the characters are promiscuous, regardless of their orientation. If Stamets were to have a casual relationship, I'm certainly not going to suddenly start believing the stereotype. I'm a gay man and I know enough about the GLBT community to know the spectrum of people's behaviors. lol!

But the leap from promiscuity to sex scenes seems pretty self-explanatory. If a character is going to be portrayed as promiscuous, it would easily be accomplished by the use of sex scenes. I probably should have said "love scenes" initially, as opposed to "sex scenes." Maybe I misspoke and that's why you were unclear on what I meant.

I want to see a cast of characters (gay, straight, asexual, whatever) who are written as three-dimensional people. If that includes relationships or dalliances, I have no problem with that. I don't want to see Stamets denied the full range of experiences available to the character because he's gay and SOME viewers might be upset by seeing that side of him portrayed.

 

[Michael]

I'm not expecting ANY sex scenes. But if there were to be any, I'm not someone who will be judging the characters are promiscuous, regardless of their orientation. If Stamets were to have a casual relationship, I'm certainly not going to suddenly start believing the stereotype. I'm a gay man and I know enough about the GLBT community to know the spectrum of people's behaviors. lol!

But the leap from promiscuity to sex scenes seems pretty self-explanatory. If a character is going to be portrayed as promiscuous, it would easily be accomplished by the use of sex scenes. I probably should have said "love scenes" initially, as opposed to "sex scenes." Maybe I misspoke and that's why you were unclear on what I meant.

I want to see a cast of characters (gay, straight, asexual, whatever) who are written as three-dimensional people. If that includes relationships or dalliances, I have no problem with that. I don't want to see Stamets denied the full range of experiences available to the character because he's gay and SOME viewers might be upset by seeing that side of him portrayed.

Thanks for taking the time and clearing it up for me. I think I just got you wrong, sorry. And sorry if I seemed confrontational. I'm just glad we can finally have these kind of conversations; finally Star Trek gets a gay character! It's about time.

 

[KennyB]

Meh we will find out in September............

 

[borgboy]

I've read that Wilson Cruz will be playing Stamets' boyfriend, who is also a crew member.
That's very exciting news! I quite like Cruz.
It's also very rare that two gay men actually play a gay couple.

 

[tenmei]

His character is Hugh Culber, the Discovery's Medical Officer.

 

[m.lp.ql.m]

I've read that Wilson Cruz will be playing Stamets' boyfriend, who is also a crew member.
That's very exciting news! I quite like Cruz.
It's also very rare that two gay men actually play a gay couple.

Where did you read that? I'll watch STD solely for Cruz!

 

[borgboy]

http://www.treknews.net/2017/07/23/wilson-cruz-star-trek-discovery/

 

[Michael]

I really like that they addressed this at the panel. But what I like even more is that we are actually living in a time where something like this is revealed and it sparks no outrage. It's just silently accepted with no notable negativity. At least here on this board, where discussions about homosexuality tend to be rather level-headed most of the time, but posters with rather strange views on this do exist.

 

[Spider]

I really like that they addressed this at the panel. But what I like even more is that we are actually living in a time where something like this is revealed and it sparks no outrage. It's just silently accepted with no notable negativity. At least here on this board, where discussions about homosexuality tend to be rather level-headed most of the time, but posters with rather strange views on this do exist.

Negative views of homosexuality mostly come from religious reasoning, and since a preponderance of Trek fans are non-religious, the subject of homosexuality probably has a better chance in Trek simply by default.

 

[Tuskin38]

preponderance

Today I learned a new word

 

[T'Bonz]

I loved Cruz in My So-Called Life.

 

[Jayson1]

This is cool. Who in my generation didn't love "My So Called Life" so to get RIcky is a great addition. We now got someone from "My so called Life" "Dazed and COnfused" and all we need is someone from "Clerks" and "Slacker."

Jason

 

[Michael]

Ah, that's him from “My So-Called Life”! Didn't recognize the name or the face. But looking at images from the show I do recognize him. Liked his character, too. Glad he's aboard Discovery!

 

[cultcross]

Another unknown name to me I'm afraid, but i like that. Although I'm psyched at the two Captain castings, in general I prefer unknowns (to me) on sci fi so they don't 'shine through' the character in my head. No matter how famous Patrick Stewart gets, and I've seen him in loads of things now, he's Captain Picard in my head

 

[Jayson1]

Another unknown name to me I'm afraid, but i like that. Although I'm psyched at the two Captain castings, in general I prefer unknowns (to me) on sci fi so they don't 'shine through' the character in my head. No matter how famous Patrick Stewart gets, and I've seen him in loads of things now, he's Captain Picard in my head

To me he will always be that British guy in that movie I can't recall that stared Steve Martin and some other lady who I also can't recall that was set in LA during either the late 80's or early 90's and they had romance.

Jason

 

[Anglachel]

I feel that there's always been gay characters in Star Trek, we just didn't see them. It's not to big of a ret-con. At this point it just feels like pandering.

 

[Tuskin38]

At this point it just feels like pandering.

No it isn't.