Star Trek's First Gay Ship-Mates? The Star-Crossed Romance of Garak & Bashir
Star Trek's First Gay Ship-Mates? The Star-Crossed Romance of Garak & Bashir
An in-depth look at the star crossed lovers we didn't get to see in DS9 including interviews with the cast and crew about why it didn't happen. Includes some details about the origin of slash fic
I do remember reading that they did want to have those two characters being gay but the studio really pushed back on that. This is why it took so long for ST to have characters that are LGBT.
Yeah. There are a lot of interviews of them saying they were both interested but was stymied by the system
Can you cite the interview as I've never seen anything more than Robinson's head canon to suggest anyone on the production intended this. Not that I care about LGBT rep in Trek, I just don't like misinformation.
The video has lots of clips and interviews. Its an interesting look at everything
Didn't Alexander Siddig and Andrew Robinson do a screen-read during quarantine of their respective characters as an old, married couple? Or was that something I just imagined? Obviously, not canon, but it's something that the fan base has certainly gotten behind!
I've found the playlist -- it's called Alone Together. I've just started on the first episode and it's pretty cool. It's a fanfiction radio play!
They did and it was glorious.
There's a small clip from them doing it in the video. It's pretty glorious
Interesting background knowledge that they were supposed to be gay, puts a lot of things into new perspective.
That being said, I don’t really like the idea, I enjoyed them as these unlikely but good platonic friends. I don’t think adding a romantic aspect to them would have improved their characters. For example Garak has many traits that could be interpreted as stereotypically gay, especially within the time period the show was produced. Him being a flamboyant and well spoken heterosexual works better to subvert cliches. Come to think of it, Bashir also isn’t the manliest of men. Which i also find more interesting for a heterosexual character.
I’ve seen DS9 SO many times… I never picked up on that subtext in their first meetings. So obvious now and nice to see the actors got together to right some wrongs
Fuck Rick berman btw
So much for fully automated luxury gay space communism.
Gashir is my favorite ship and one that was deeply done dirty by the show's writers and producers. It needs to be canonized.