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Originally posted by Hadrian Tyrael S. Aventine:
I could accept everything going on in Trek as an alternate reality type stuff except for one thing. Gene Roddenberry wrote the series as what humanity should be in this reality.

What I meant by that was Enterprise as an alternate reality to TOS or TNG. All of them are in our future, so you can say any one of them could be our reality to come. It's just that when they start messing around and have these inconsistancies between series, and even between different episodes in the same series I have stopped trying to crowbar them all and make them fit one single timeline. The writers obviously don't care about that, including Roddenbery before he died, so why should I?

For those that want a funny tidbit into trek, Ensign Hawk in Star Trek: First Contact was supposed to be the first gay character on star trek. The scenes showing that was edited out....

Maybe the first gay regular character (although I am not so sure that Bashir wasn't just chasing Dax as a cover. ) but one of them (Voyager I think) had an episode where they visited a planet where everyone was gay. One of the alien scientists fell in love with one of the starfleet crew members of the opposite sex and it was all very scandalous. Her people ended up "reprograming" her or something if I recall correctly.

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