There was a guy in First Contact—I think his name was something like “Hawk,” and I think he was played by Neal McDonough—who was intended to be gay, but the execs back then said no way. It’s all to appease the people working on the shows with no thought to what the audience might want, but Star Trek already has a built-in socialist bent (”In the future, we work for fulfilment, not money” from the aforementioned First Contact) that makes the audience demand more and more liberalism.
Yea HAWK, he looked like a Shep clone, eyeliner and all.
My gaydar was pinning with that character...