{"id":59131,"date":"2020-09-02T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/star-trek-discovery-casts-first-trans-non-binary-characters\/"},"modified":"2020-09-02T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:25:00","slug":"star-trek-discovery-casts-first-trans-non-binary-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/star-trek-discovery-casts-first-trans-non-binary-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Star Trek: Discovery\u2019 casts first trans, non-binary characters"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#\u2018Star Trek: Discovery\u2019 casts first trans, non-binary characters<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 2, 2020 |<\/span> 3:25pm <\/p>\n

\n In a first for the \u201cStar Trek\u201d franchise, characters who are gender non-binary and transgender will app<\/a>ear on the third season of \u201cStar Trek: Discovery,\u201d CBS All Access announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Ian Alexander (\u201cThe OA\u201d) will play Gray, a trans man who has spent his life planning to be a Trill host for a symbiotic alien species that lives in different hosts over its lifetime.<\/p>\n

And newcomer Blu del Barrio will play Adira, a non-binary character who bonds with Lt. Commander Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Dr. Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz), the first same-sex couple in \u201cTrek\u201d TV series<\/a> history.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Star Trek\u2019 has always made a mission of giving visibility to underrepresented communities because it believes in showing people that a future without division on the basis of race, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation is entirely within our reach,\u201d co-showrunner and executive producer Michelle Paradise said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The production worked closely with GLAAD, especially director of transgender media<\/a> and representation Nick Adams, in crafting Gray and Adira for Season 3.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take pride in working closely with Blu del Barrio, Ian Alexander and Nick Adams at GLAAD to create the extraordinary characters of Adira and Gray, and bring their stories to life with empathy, understanding, empowerment and joy,\u201d said Paradise.<\/p>\n

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Lt. Commander Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Dr. Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz) were the first same-sex couple in \u201cStar Trek\u201d TV series history.<\/span>CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Alexander first appeared as a trans character on the Netflix sci-fi series \u201cThe OA,\u201d he was the first out trans Asian-American actor on TV. He most recently played the trans character Lev on the acclaimed video game<\/a> \u201cThe Last of Us Part II.\u201d<\/p>\n

Del Barrio was cast on \u201cDiscovery\u201d while in their final year at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. They\u2019ve been acting in theater and short film productions since they were 7; \u201cDiscovery\u201d will be their TV debut.<\/p>\n

Although the original \u201cStar Trek\u201d TV series, which first ran on NBC from 1966 to 1969, was groundbreaking at the time for its depiction of Black and Asian characters, until the 2010s, the \u201cTrek\u201d franchise largely avoided LBGTQ characters of any significance.<\/p>\n

For years, the most explicit depiction of any LBGTQ characters in \u201cTrek\u201d was in a 1992 episode of \u201cStar Trek: The Next Generation\u201d titled \u201cThe Outcast,\u201d in which the crew of the Enterprise encounter the J\u2019naii, an alien race that has no gender and views any expressions of gender or sexuality to be taboo. Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes) ends up falling in love with a J\u2019naii, who identifies as female, until she is forced by her society to undergo a form of therapy that eradicates her gender identity. (Frakes has said that the episode was not \u201cgutsy\u201d enough.)<\/p>\n

The Trill species has also allowed \u201cStar Trek\u201d to dip into queer issues, if tentatively. In the 1991 \u201cTNG\u201d episode \u201cThe Host,\u201d Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) falls passionately in love with a male Trill, but when the host body dies and the symbiont alien is placed in a female host, Crusher says she can\u2019t continue with the relationship. A 1995 episode of \u201cStar Trek: Deep Space Nine\u201d flipped that equation, with the female Trill Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) reuniting with a woman who was Dax\u2019s wife when Dax lived inside a male host. Dax wants to restart their relationship, and the two women kiss, but the episode ends with the ex-wife deciding instead to move on.<\/p>\n

Finally, the 2016 feature film \u201cStar Trek Beyond\u201d \u2014 set in an alternate \u201cTrek\u201d universe \u2014 revealed that character of Sulu (John Cho) has a husband and daughter, though the husband character (played by the film\u2019s co-screenwriter Doug Jung) had no lines, and the characters only briefly hug on screen.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until Stamets and Culber were introduced on \u201cDiscovery\u201d in 2017 that two male \u201cTrek\u201d characters were depicted in a fully expressed romantic relationship \u2014 and played by two out queer actors.<\/p>\n

The third season of \u201cStar Trek: Discovery\u201d premieres on CBS All Access on Oct. 15.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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