Star Trek: The Next Generation

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:

• Ro Laren
• Beverly Crusher
• Deanna Troi
• Tasha Yar

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).