The advanced fan film website Star Trek: Phase II is resurrecting a homosexual story line deemed too risky for The Next Generation's TV run.
The new online episode ("Blood and Fire") goes live tomorrow and features a story by former Trek TV writer David Gerrold. While executives shot down the story as too controversial for broadcast originally, Phase II adapted the script for its re-created Original Series world.
The story features the nephew of James T. Kirk in a gay relationship with an Enterprise crewman as the ship faces an AIDS-like contagion and a threat from the Klingon empire. It would seem Kirk would oppose California's Prop. 8, as the captain evidently agrees to perform a same-sex wedding ceremony for his nephew -- if NCC-1701 survives.
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