Just now on the view the same actor admits that the Lt. Hawk character was intended to be gay!
Lt. Hawk Confirmed!!!!
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Wow. It's only 12½ years too late for anybody to really care much. 
In what way was he 'intended'? Were there deleted scenes? Or just a character sheet that mentions it, with no intention to put it on screen?
Confirmed my aye! I just watched the segment in question and he made NO such confirmation. He says he learned that the character was gay in a book 2 years later or so. It is toward the end of the segment 
....So what I am saying he says he wasn't supposed to be.
It is here:http://theyaketyyak.blogspot.com/2009_05_14_archive.html
....So what I am saying he says he wasn't supposed to be.It is here:http://theyaketyyak.blogspot.com/2009_05_14_archive.html
And who cares anyway if a character that had two lines of dialogue is gay or not.
On the other hand, he was assimilated by the Borg. Does that mean he passed down that part of his individuality into the Borg Collective? Are the Borg gay now? I'm sure that someone will start a thread about that sooner or later ...
On the other hand, he was assimilated by the Borg. Does that mean he passed down that part of his individuality into the Borg Collective? Are the Borg gay now? I'm sure that someone will start a thread about that sooner or later ...
I know. I was joking.
I'm just so sick of all those gay threads. I mean, is it really that important if someone's gay or not? Do we really need characters on a show set in 23rd/24th century to talk about their sexual orientation? I don't care if someone's gay or not in the real world, and I couldn't care less if it's a fictional character we're talking about!
How about they don't talk about it and they just make out on camera like all the heterosexual couples do?
I have no problem with characters "coming out", but I think making threads on it a decade later is pretty damn silly.
That was pretty much Gene Roddenberry's view on it: a non-issue.
Normally it was only a "non-issue" because they avoided it like the plague, so that explanation doesn't wash for me.
There are two exceptions that come to mind, both DS9 episodes: "Rejoined", in which everyone is confused as to why Jadzia and Lenara can't continue their relationship. Gender is not seen as an issue. The other is "Rules of Acquisition", when Dax realises Pel loves Quark, but doesn't know she's a female. She encourages "him" to persue a relationship with Quark.
There are two exceptions that come to mind, both DS9 episodes: "Rejoined", in which everyone is confused as to why Jadzia and Lenara can't continue their relationship. Gender is not seen as an issue. The other is "Rules of Acquisition", when Dax realises Pel loves Quark, but doesn't know she's a female. She encourages "him" to persue a relationship with Quark.
I think it's wonderful that you could care less if someone is gay or not in the real world. However, I think it is important to have an out character. No, I don't think we need to have an entire arc for a gay character, but let's stop hiding it. It should be a non-issue so lets just have a character with some casual references indicating as such. That makes it a non-issue.
That is just fine and dandy enough to be posted and discussed in a thread on the boards!! Oh wait, it already has been in SEVERAL. Let's stick to the OP as it was started. The point is that Neal McDonough was stated as saying that Hawke was gay and he made no such remark.
I usually tend to stay away from "The View" but whenever channel surfing and I see a star trek related discussion, It is always Whoopie that has started it.
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