# The Gay Star Trek Character **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 31, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531 "2006-10-31T02:03:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/21 "2006-10-31T14:57:33Z")
Well, it’s definitely not Beverly Crusher. Could be Data, though. “I am programmed to provide a full range of pleasuring.” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/22 "2006-10-31T15:10:36Z")
If it is Scotty, it puts a whole different spin on “Captain, she’s gonna blow!” ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/23 "2006-10-31T16:57:01Z")
Now now! If anyone could be classified as gay from the upstart it would have to be Odo from DS9. After all, his race were all shapeshifters/changlings. Who knows what sex they were… they were all the same when in liquid form. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/24 "2006-10-31T18:05:23Z")
Am I the only one who’s continually amused at how this thread is tending to hover right next to the Tom Cruise Trek thread? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/25 "2006-10-31T18:11:18Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Am I the only one who’s continually amused at how this thread is tending to hover right next to the Tom Cruise Trek thread? [/QUOTE] No, no, we’re just trying to come up with something funny enough for a lawsuit. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/26 "2006-10-31T18:13:33Z")
> [@](#): > > If you mean Intendant Kira from the Mirror Universe, she was only bi because they couldn’t give her a goatee to show she was evil, and couldn’t show her Brazillian wax on screen to show she was evil, so they gave her teh gay to show she was evil. This is a good illustration of how pop culture fails me. I always wish I lived in the alternate universe with leather Kira. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/27 "2006-10-31T18:31:09Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] This is a good illustration of how pop culture fails me. I always wish I lived in the alternate universe with leather Kira. [/QUOTE] Beat me, spank me, make me write hot checks! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/28 "2006-10-31T19:57:27Z")
You’re all ignoring the obvious! It’s **Kirk!** Don Juanism is a classic sign of repressed gayness! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/29 "2006-10-31T20:27:03Z")
I’ve always thought Tasha Yar was kinda on the dikey side in the series. Don’t know why except for the short hair and being a tough security officer. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/30 "2006-10-31T21:34:43Z")
Tasha did a little Data mining… ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/31 "2006-11-01T00:37:26Z")
I always suspected that Geordi was going to get into trouble one day for fudging Data. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/32 "2006-11-01T01:43:48Z")
What about that guy that tried to keep Data as a collectors item? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/33 "2006-11-01T01:45:01Z")
Malcolm Reed, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/34 "2006-11-01T05:37:36Z")
[QUOTE=vivalostwages] Malcolm Reed, of course. [/QUOTE] Yeah, especially after we discovered that he died without producing any heirs on that alternate _Enterprise_ that was flung back in time. He needed to stop trying to act on heterosexual urges that just weren’t there! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/35 "2006-11-01T06:06:34Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] Klingon men wear . . . leather and amror. Klingon women . . . wear leather and armor. It’s quite possible that every male Klingon we’ve seen was in drag, and we never noticed. :eek: [/QUOTE] No, Klingon drag is a well-tailored three-piece pinstripe suit for men, and a light tennis frock for women, with white shoes only between Memorial Day and Labour Day. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/36 "2006-11-01T18:05:16Z")
> [@](#): > > No, Klingon drag is a well-tailored three-piece pinstripe suit for men, and a light tennis frock for women, with white shoes only between Memorial Day and Labour Day. Ah, no, you’re thinking of Klingon _plushies._ ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531/37 "2006-11-01T20:02:35Z")
[QUOTE=Dragwyr] Now now! If anyone could be classified as gay from the upstart it would have to be Odo from DS9. After all, his race were all shapeshifters/changlings. Who knows what sex they were… they were all the same when in liquid form. [/QUOTE] I believe there was an episode where he got all psuedo-freaky with a Changeling who took a male form. The eroticism was barely subtext, especially since the act was later implied to be directly analogous to human intercourse. The fact that they consistently chose to represent any particular gender, and that they seem to occasionally reproduce, suggests to me that they do have it in some way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-star-trek-character/378531.md?page=1)