"Star Trek" writer should have done more gay roles! He says!

When it comes to specific television shows and movies that have lacked gay visibility over the years, the Star Trek franchise has probably received the most scrutiny — and criticism — from AfterElton.com. After all, despite having produced more than a dozen feature films and 726 episodes over the course of six series (including the 22-episode animated series) the franchise has never managed to include an out gay character in a movie or series.
This despite the fact that in 1991 Gene Roddenberry told The Advocate that the fifth season of The Next Generation would at least show gay crewmembers as part of ship life. Unfortunately, Roddenberry died that year and none of the subsequent episodes featured gay people at all. 

     

In 2008, the fan series Star Trek Phase II produced an online version of a gay-themed episode originally intended for The Next Generation and written by David Gerrold. And in 2008, I asked Roberto Orci and Alexander Kurtzman if the new Star Trek movie would finally go where no Star Trek had gone before by including a gay character. The answer was no, but perhaps the next one would and that "it needed to be addressed."
At this month's Television Critics Association Press Tour in Los Angeles, I had an unexpected and brief opportunity to chat with Brannon Braga, one of Star Trek's most prominent writers and producers, about why the franchise had done so poorly with with gay visibility and whether or not his new show Terra Nova would do anything to improve American television's terrible track record with the issue.

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