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Twenty Years Later, Gay Themed 'Star Trek' Episode Will Finally Be Screened
Last March, the team of fans behind Star Trek Phase II began producing "Blood and Fire" a gay-themed script originally written for The Next Generation in 1988 by "The Trouble With Tribbles" writer David Gerrold. The story would have included the franchise's first gay couple and dealt with a deadly disease that worked as an analogy to AIDS, but the episode never was filmed. The gay couple -- who were mostly written as good friends and only referred to as a couple in a couple lines -- stirred debates among TNG staff to the point that it was deemed easier just not to bother with the episode.
This version of "Blood and Fire" has changed a bit from the original script. The era of the script has been pushed back since Phase II is set on the "Classic" enterprise with new actors playing the familiar characters and one of the gay characters is the nephew of Capt. James T. Kirk, Peter. Also, the couple -- who's relationship status was only confirmed when someone asks "How long have you been together?" in the original script -- get to behave a little more like a couple this time around. There's no word on when the final cut for the two "Blood and Fire" episode will be available for a wider audience to download and view, but we'll keep our ears for news on that. Submitted by on Thu, 2008-07-10 15:57. |
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Tomorrow evening, "Blood and Fire" will finally be screened by an audience. Fans at the
Beam me up!
This is sooooo cool! Does anyone know if the gay couple involves aliens? Or is it two humans? Not that it makes all that much difference. Hope this is the first of many to come.
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One of them is Kirk's
It's about frackin' time.
I would have expected this to have happened a long time ago. Gene Roddenberry was cutting end in his time. Star Trek: TOS had the first inter-racial kiss ever on television, Kirk & Uhura. I think that a man who pushed the envelope with that would have made a gay character a long time ago. The closest they came was that TNG episode where the aliens are all androgenous, and they are punished for showing any type of gender identity.
I think that it is high time that Science Fiction, which is supposed to take place in the future, should have strong gay characters. I applaud the Sci-Fi channel for having gay characters on Battle Star Galactica. Their relationship is never featured, but it is spoken about, and not as something that is to be ashamed of.
Unless sci-fi writer are saying that all queer people will be eliminated in the future, they should start including them in the shows.
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Roddenberry
Oh, that episode about the androgynous civilization was pretty infuriating -- "We'll talk about LGB tolerance with a story about a heterosexual couple!".
Horny Kirks
Those Kirk men just can't keep it in their pants! Sounds like Kirk's nephew will keep the family fires burning. Not that we mind or anything... :-)
There have been some episodes in Star Trek that just screamed for harder defined (eh hem) queer characters. So it will be refreshing to see one that doesn't try to skirt the issue.
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Kirk's son
Wasn't Merritt Buttrick, who played Kirk's son, gay?