I’ve only fully watched the series’ from TNG onward, plus the “must see” episodes of TOS. I’m just wondering if in canon he’s actually all that promiscuous.

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    ST:NG was reportedly blocked from much gay commentary by a producer, a lack which is painfully glaring in retrospect for a show that tries to be on the cutting edge of social progress.

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      As I remember it, the show has tons of metaphor and allegory regarding homosexuality, but they refused to have any overtly gay characters, which was such a huge misstep.

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      Social progress in the 60s was a completely different animal from the social progress of today. People actually had absolute shit fits over a white man kissing a black woman on TV.