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[[Gene Roddenberry]] had promised that ST:TNG would have gay characters. Beverly Crusher's orderly, Ensign Freeman, was supposed to be gay, in a first-season script that was never produced.  Roddenberry had promised in 1991 to introduce minor gay characters during the fourth season (1991-92), but Roddenberry died, and the production company and network reneged on the promise. The show did have two episodes that touched on sexual orientation, "[[The Outcast]]" (a gender-neutral species represses heterosexuality and gender-identity) and "[[The Host]]" (using a Trill host-symbiont gender-switch to confront Dr. Crusher with the possibility of same-sex love).





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The female characters of Season 1, ST:TNG. Tasha Yar (left), Deanna Troi (right), and Beverly Crusher (bottom)


AKA ST:TNG. TV series that aired originally from 1987 to 1994.


Notable female characters:

Gene Roddenberry had promised that ST:TNG would have gay characters. Beverly Crusher's orderly, Ensign Freeman, was supposed to be gay, in a first-season script that was never produced. Roddenberry had promised in 1991 to introduce minor gay characters during the fourth season (1991-92), but Roddenberry died, and the production company and network reneged on the promise. The show did have two episodes that touched on sexual orientation, "The Outcast" (a gender-neutral species represses heterosexuality and gender-identity) and "The Host" (using a Trill host-symbiont gender-switch to confront Dr. Crusher with the possibility of same-sex love).