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Comments on: http://old.hitormiss.org/2001/06/30/to-boldly-go-where-no/ Use Topically, Repeat Daily Sun, 13 Sep 2015 08:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mark http://old.hitormiss.org/2001/06/30/to-boldly-go-where-no/#comment-1127 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://hitormiss.org/archives/2001/06/30/to-boldly-go-where-no/#comment-1127 What, you don’t think they’ll have gay “cured” by then?

Hmm… I wonder if Scott Bakula could be persuaded to do another gay role? Quantum Leap was one of the first shows that I tuned in to partly so I could ogle the male lead.

]]> By: Sparky http://old.hitormiss.org/2001/06/30/to-boldly-go-where-no/#comment-1128 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://hitormiss.org/archives/2001/06/30/to-boldly-go-where-no/#comment-1128 I’ve had a bee in my bonnet about how evasive the series have been on this issue. Considering how heavy-handed they always are about how progresive and tolerant their future utopia, it’s especially offensive that gay issues are, at best, deeply buried in allegory. I really don’t think we should be treated as the final taboo.

]]> By: stephen http://old.hitormiss.org/2001/06/30/to-boldly-go-where-no/#comment-1129 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://hitormiss.org/archives/2001/06/30/to-boldly-go-where-no/#comment-1129 remember that one episode? the one with the androgenous species? and riker decided it would be appropriate to have yet-another interspecies coupling?

that’s about as close as rick berman can get with his ideas. me? i’d love to see a faggy episode–queers in space? mister mot (the hairdresser) has gay –tendancies– if nothing else..

]]> By: Sparky http://old.hitormiss.org/2001/06/30/to-boldly-go-where-no/#comment-1130 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://hitormiss.org/archives/2001/06/30/to-boldly-go-where-no/#comment-1130 Ugh, I’d at least hope for something more inspired than a gay hairdresser being the first concession we get.

]]> By: Bill http://old.hitormiss.org/2001/06/30/to-boldly-go-where-no/#comment-1131 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://hitormiss.org/archives/2001/06/30/to-boldly-go-where-no/#comment-1131 Jeez, didn’t Ivanova and the NYPD Blue Telepath have an understated fling in an episode or two of Babylon 5?

]]> By: Mike B http://old.hitormiss.org/2001/06/30/to-boldly-go-where-no/#comment-1132 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://hitormiss.org/archives/2001/06/30/to-boldly-go-where-no/#comment-1132 Yeah. They didn’t go so far as to hug, or kiss, or appear together in bed, or reveal anything explicitly in dialogue until a full season later, though. But it was still more daring than anything that Trek ever did.

And I don’t have a problem with the gay character being the astro-hairdresser. Uhura, sole representative of two minorities, started out as the space receptionist. Two series later there’s a black captain, and three series later a female captain. That’s how Trek works — instead of ignoring stupid and prejudiced restrictions, they push gently on their boundaries. Very bold.

]]> By: Tanthanis http://old.hitormiss.org/2001/06/30/to-boldly-go-where-no/#comment-1133 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://hitormiss.org/archives/2001/06/30/to-boldly-go-where-no/#comment-1133 I sincerely hope that they have cured they psychological disorder known as homosexuality by the 24th century.

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