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It's not clear where Seven and Raffi stand romantically, but that should be apparent if Star Trek: Legacy happens.
Seven of Nine's relationships with men in Star Trek: Voyager were mostly forgettable. Once Reno made the connection, she was able to let the patient go.
6 Captain Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan)
Star Trek: Picard
Star Trek: Voyager's Seven of Nine returns in Star Trek: Picard season 1 as a Fenris Ranger, rendering aid where needed after being barred from joining Starfleet due to her Borg past.
I can't do that.
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After The Next Generation ended in 1994, Voyager was both the next tentpole for the franchise and a flagship series for Paramount’s brand-new TV channel, UPN. As such, the show got a lot more attention and scrutiny from fans and producers alike (which, to hear Ira Steven Behr tell it, is part of the reason Deep Space Nine got away with so much).
While Voyager never explicitly featured a gay character, there were certainly behind-the-scene conversations about doing so.
These symbiotes maintain their memories as they pass from one host body to another over time, not being concerned with each Trill’s gender identity. One of the main characters so far, Beckett Mariner, is openly queer, even stating in the show that she has dated “men, women, and gender non-binary babes.” There have been hints from the show’s creator, Mike McMahan, that the entirety of the ship’s crew is not intended to be heteronormative.
Strange New Worldsis set before Kirk captains the USS Enterprise, and includes characters formerly on The Original Series, including Christopher Pike, Spock, Christine Chapel, Nyota Uhura, and Jim Kirk. Christine Chapel, bisexual in this iteration of the character, is played by Jess Bush, who describes herself as queer.
However, the sci-fi TV show never delved into LGBTQ issues during its three-season run.
After the USS Discovery's crash-landing in the 32nd century, both Culber and Stamets cope with the trauma of Star Trek: Discovery's time jump by committing themselves fully to their jobs, to the point of overworking themselves, which was a trait that most of Discovery's crew shared.
Paul's trend towards kindness evolves over the course of Star Trek: Discovery, as Stamets becomes something of a mentor to 32nd-century Adira Tal (Blu del Barrio), whom Stamets and Culber take in as their own child.
10 Dr. Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz)
Star Trek: Discovery
The other half of Star Trek's first gay couple, Dr.
Hugh Culber is murdered by Lt. Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif) in Star Trek: Discovery season 1.
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That same year, Gerrold (who’s best known for writing the TOS episode “The Trouble With Tribbles”) began working on a script which revolved around two gay characters becoming afflicted by an incurable, intergalactic blood disease that mirrored the spread of HIV.
He hoped the story would raise awareness of the then-ongoing AIDS crisis, and even inspire Star Trek fans to donate their own blood to benefit real-life victims. In any case, Hawk’s identity was eventually made more overt in Section 31: Rogue, a non-canonical, prequel tie-in novel that depicts him as being romantically linked to other male Starfleet officers.
Gerrold later adapted “Blood and Fire” as inspiration for his Star Wolf books and then eventually revised the original script and directed it as part of a fan-made film.
A few years later on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, there were queer-coded characters (looking at you, Garak) and definite lines drawn between gender and sexuality regarding different alien species.
Between that, how TOS had already taken a hit from the Kirk/Uhura kiss and Takei still being closed at the time, he didn’t push the matter any further.
Fortunately, Star Trek: The Original Series laid the foundation for a franchise that’s still going strong and been able to delve into LGBTQ storytelling in its more recent history, including with Star Trek: Discovery featuring two of its principal characters in an openly gay relationship.
Roddenberry felt that if Star Trek started touching on LGBTQ issues as well, that would be pushing the show’s luck too far. That connection meant that the memory of Paul's husband, Dr. Hugh Culber, was alive within the mycelial network after Culber's Star Trek: Discovery season 1 murder, so Paul's love for Hugh quite literally resurrected Dr.
Culber in Discovery season 2.
Stamets' innate curiosity and joyful pursuit of scientific discovery overtakes the general irritability that first characterized Stamets in Star Trek:Discovery's early seasons, something Stamets himself even points out when pretending to be a younger version of himself in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 4, "Face the Strange".
After the procedure's success, Gray is truly seen by everyone as he is meant to be.
In Star Trek: The Next Generation season 4, episode 23, "The Host", Trill ambassador Odan (Franc Luz) is temporarily hosted by Commander Riker before ending up with a female host (Nicole Orth-Pallavicini), and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine expands on Trill lore through Dax's former lives with male and female hosts, so it's fitting that Gray and Adira, non-allegorical transgender characters in Star Trek: Discovery, are Trill.
7 Commander Jett Reno (Tig Notaro)
Star Trek: Discovery
The USS Discovery rescues Commander Jett Reno (Tig Notaro) in Star Trek: Discovery season 2, episode 1, "Brother", when the Red Angel's first signal directs the Discovery to the wreckage of the USS Hiawatha.
However, he was told that the timing wasn’t right. No one in Seven and Raffi's immediate circle comments on their Sapphic relationship as something unexpected given their individual relationship histories with men, proving that Star Trek's future accepts the fluidity of human sexuality fairly readily.
The History Of LGBTQ+ Representation In 'Star Trek'
Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds both have openly queer cast, crew, and characters -- from Anthony Rapp as Paul Stamets on Discovery to Jess Bush as Christine Chapel on Strange New Worlds.
Gray will be dead without a new body, and very much alive with one, so there is no question but to give Gray his body.