On January 11, 1993, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine introduced the first gay power couple of the 24th century ... Garak and Bashir. One’s a dashing young doctor....

An in-depth look at the star crossed lovers we didn’t get to see in DS9 including interviews with the cast and crew about why it didn’t happen. Includes some details about the origin of slash fic

    • @[email protected]
      0•1 year ago

      Have any of the writers ever confirmed that? People are quick to jump on Rick Berman tlaboti anything they didn’t like in 90s Trek, but outside of Robinson’s take, I’ve never seen any indication that anyone on the show saw the characters this way.

    • @[email protected]
      3•1 year ago

      I don’t believe they did want it that way though. Ron Moore said way back in 2001, 2002 or so that the DS9 writing staff didn’t care at all about LGBT issues at the time, and so I find it hard to believe they were planning to have a gay relationship on DS9.

      • Baloo Uriza
        3•1 year ago

        @startrekexplained @BobKerman3999 Doesn’t seem that hard to me. It’s entirely possible an entire room of writers would have considered existing apolitical and wanted to cast a gay couple as not even being remarkable, even back then.

        I was also in the closet back then. Mostly because there’s people out there who want to make existing political, and want me dead now because of it.

        • @[email protected]
          3•1 year ago

          I guess I’m just less charitable because the DS9 writers did admit (I’ll have to find the quotes later) they just didn’t care about queer issues back then. As an openly queer person myself, I wish Star Trek back then was a trail blazer but it wasn’t.

          • Baloo Uriza
            1•1 year ago

            @startrekexplained Let me clarify. I believe the writers wanted to openly ship them, and didn’t because Paramount was trying to make it a political issue. I firmly believe existing is not political and trying to make it that way is pretty cowardly.

            • @[email protected]
              3•1 year ago

              I’d need to see some evidence beyond jokes in a documentary made 20 years after the show ended.

          • dumplesOP
            3•1 year ago

            You do have a good point. We shouldn’t give credit to almost and maybes the same credit as actual content. Regardless of what happened afterwards but it’s still interesting to see what could have been