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

  • @startrekexplained@startrek.website
    3•2 years 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.

    • dumplesOP
      3•2 years 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

    • Baloo Uriza
      1•2 years 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.