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

  • mawkishdave@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 year ago

    I do remember reading that they did want to have those two characters being gay but the studio really pushed back on that. This is why it took so long for ST to have characters that are LGBT.

    • dumples@kbin.socialOP
      9·
      1 year ago

      Yeah. There are a lot of interviews of them saying they were both interested but was stymied by the system

    • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Can you cite the interview as I’ve never seen anything more than Robinson’s head canon to suggest anyone on the production intended this. Not that I care about LGBT rep in Trek, I just don’t like misinformation.