One things about Star Trek and at least ethnic groups, is that, at least in the 60s, you would have an Asian and an African on the bridge of the Enterprise, without it actually being pointed out for the most part. There were their as equals doing their job. Who is to say that there weren't homosexuals also on the bridge, doing there job. It is just there sexuality didn't come up, or they were not of the flamboyant types.
Is it about sexuality or about lifestyle? You wouldn't normally see flamboyant character types in a military setting or a serious setting like the bridge of a starship, would you? The stereotype "flaming homosexual" wouldn't be a standard type anymore, would it? After centuries of acceptance? There would be no reason for any extra social or cultural styles to be added to a character, when they aren't, in most cases, for the likes of Uhura and Sulu.
Sulu being Asian was almost never brought up. Uhura being African only came up, I think, twice were it had any meaning. Once when they encountered Abraham Lincoln, and then when she was being reeducated, her having learned Swahili first, then English. Chekov's Russian was done for laughs. Scott's accent was used just to be used. In The Next Generation Worf's Klingon was pushed a lot. Data being a android was pushed a lot. La'Forge being blind came up from time to time, but aside from his external appliance, most of the time it wasn't a issue unless the plot needed either his VISOR for reasons, or to make a situation.
Percentage of the population being homosexual or at least not heterosexual is what?
5-10 pc of the population is gay.
In all the thousands of star trek people, hook ups and couples, we havent seen two dudes holding hands in the back ground, and nothing but a spot of lipstick lesbianism and what? A plot conception that can be seen as somehow analogous to transgender people on earth.
The wire had omar little.
ST has beverly crushers relationship with a dude that turned into a dudette and then got rejected.
I see a lot of shows from America get lit up with hate on IMDB for having gay characters. Presumably things are worse in other non english speaking nations. In europe though its no big thing in most places, and frankly, star trek was a big enough franchise to include incidental homosexuality.
"its a family show waaaah"
Its the twenty first century, and this is a show about the future. Where are all the gays? Do the conservatives believe medicine eradicated homosexuality? Is that what star trek is saying?
All thats really happening, is a mob mentality is being allowed to trump freedom of association, and accurate representation on television.
Star trek lost viewing figures?
You know why? No one wants to watch a "boring and safe" show on space. When it started it was revolutionary, not boring.
We are now post HBO and post 9/11. We are post "post-9/11". we are post iraq and afghan. We are post NSA and almost post global recession. We are pretty close to being post NASA, with all the budget cuts. We are post black president and post DADT and post any decent series for almost 20 years.
How about we get a grown up star trek and not one aimed at prudes and gender tyrants.
