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I know that if Berman was the raging misogynistic asshole and everything he's made out to be, I don't think he'd have asked McFadden back after she left because Maurice Hurley was abusive to her and wanted her gone.
I was recently doing some of these shorts for our discussion of The Outcast, an episode of which Rick Berman has been famously blamed for toning down a lot of the more explicitly queer messaging. Specifically, he's been blamed for casting Soren with a female actor instead of a male.
May 31, 2022 · “We thought we had made a very positive statement about sexual prejudice in a distinctively Star Trek way,” producer Rick Berman said in 1992. “But we still got letters from those who thought it was just our way of ‘washing our hands’ of the homosexual situation.”
- Ryan Britt
- Not in Front of The Klingons
- Infinite Diversity…Except For The Gays
- “Time to Win The War”
- The Battle Continues...
- Discoveryfulfills The Promise, But Falters
- “You’re My Home”
- Looking to The Future
For decades, queer people have been drawn to Star Trek, and the shows have gained cult status within the gay community. Why? To answer that question, we need to slingshot around the sun and time-warp back to The Original Series, a show with so much sparkling chemistry between its male leads that Kirk and Spock became the OG ship, launching a thousa...
Trek’s vision of a utopian future was perhaps strongest in The Next Generation, as the crew of the Enterprise-D traversed the galaxy, solving conflicts with diplomacy and staying true to the Federation’s values (even veganism). With this new era of possibilities came the idea that Star Trek could actually feature a gay character. This was suggested...
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Discovery marks the first time a queer relationship was depicted on Star Trek. But while Stamets and Culber are the first long-running gay couple, the honor of the first kiss between two women in Trek history goes to Deep Space Nine. Jadzia Dax was a Trill, an alien comprised of a 700-year-old symbiote and a mort...
Ultimately though, this was just one episode, and for the rest of the show, Jadzia’s romantic plots focused on men. While modern viewers may be able to recognize Jadzia Dax as bisexual (and arguably genderfluid), much of her sexuality was confined to suggestive comments and subtext, and we never saw her in a romance with another woman. It’s worth n...
BeforeStar Trek: Discovery even had a name, another promise was made that we would finally see gay characters walking the decks of a Starfleet vessel. In August 2016, then-showrunner Bryan Fuller told fansthat there would “absolutely” be a gay character in the main cast, achieving what had been fought for but blocked for so many years. However, we’...
Culber’s resurrection in a shocking season two episodeallowed the show to explore him as a character, as he confronted his purpose and found it difficult to reunite with his husband. “I got to define him a lot more this year,” explained Cruz. “He’s such an empath and he really wears his heart on his white sleeve, and that makes him a better doctor....
Speculative fiction plays a vital role in our narrative pantheon. It is the space where we can imagine literally any possibility, build better futures, and hope to influence real life by showing what’s possible. If LGBTQ+ people are consistently ignored and cut out of this genre, then a clear message is sent: In all these realms of possibilities, q...
Jun 1, 2020 · According to fan rumors, early drafts of the screenplay for Star Trek: First Contact made some mention of a minor character, Lieutenant Hawk, being gay, which was quickly denied by producer Rick Berman (a supposed first draft that surfaced online refers to Hawk as a naive young Ensign, not a
Mar 3, 2011 · March 3, 2011. Former Star Trek producer, Rick Berman recently answered a list of questions over at the official Star Trek website. Below is an excerpt from the second part of the questions...
He was definitely homophobic and 99% most likely a misogynist (I'll give him 1% benefit of the doubt). Ultimately though, the on screen product was mostly good. I think the bigger problem is that the show never grew beyond season 4-6 TNG.
