[ SECRET POST #3181 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3181 ⌋

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Comments

[des_pudels_kern]

Yep.

Andrew Robinson provided non-canon insight into his role when interviewed by Amazon.com, stating "I started out playing Garak as someone who doesn't have a defined sexuality. He's not gay, he's not straight, it's a non-issue for him. Basically his sexuality is inclusive. But – it's Star Trek and there were a couple of things working against that. One is that Americans really are very nervous about sexual ambiguity. Also, this is a family show, they have to keep it on the 'straight and narrow', so then I backed off from it. Originally, in that very first episode, I loved the man's absolute fearlessness about presenting himself to an attractive human being. The fact that the attractive human being is a man (Bashir) doesn't make any difference to him, but that was a little too sophisticated I think. For the most part, the writers supported the character beautifully, but in that area they just made a choice they didn't want to go there, and if they don't want to go there I can't, because the writing doesn't support it." (Memory-Alpha)

Gene Roddenberry had plans to include gay crewmembers in TGN. He said, "It is entirely fitting that gays and lesbians will appear unobtrusively aboard the Enterprise—neither objects of pity nor melodramatic attention." This sounds a lot like he'd have been fine with Robinson's playing Garak as not caring that Bashir happened to be a man and would likely have taken the opportunity presented. Unfortunately Roddenberry died shortly after that interview, and his successors obviously didn't want to go where no family scifi show had gone before. Kate Mulgrew has gone on record regarding Star Trek's lack of LGBT characters saying that she approached Rick Berman several times but he was "very firm about certain things" and kept brushing her off. (x)