News Rapp: Honored To Play A Gay Man On Trek

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A new news article has been published at TrekToday:

Anthony Rapp will be taking on the role of Lieutenant Stamets in Star Trek: Discovery and the actor spoke briefly about that...

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[Bry_Sinclair]

So long as its not his defining characteristic then I'm glad he's on the crew.

 

[Kemaiku]

So long as its not his defining characteristic then I'm glad he's on the crew.

No, he's the "space fungus guy" which is honestly going to take most of season 1 to explain or give any real reason for.

 

[Refuge]

Really? Why should it be an honor? Being honorable is how you conduct yourself not your orientation. I get irritated with how needy and look at me being gay has become. Like a token pat on the back for the production to have a gay character. It is no more special than being heterosexual, so I hope this character has more to offer than this 'honor'.

 

[Trekkin]

Trek went fifty years without having a gay main character. It's never had one on television (genderless space worms excepted) . Any gay character appearing is exceptional, in the very literal sense of the word.

So no, Trek doesn't deserve a pat on the back for taking 20 years to catch-up. However, this is all bullshit:

Really? Why should it be an honor? Being honorable is how you conduct yourself not your orientation.

He's an actor. His 'conduct' that he feels honoured in doing, is acting in the role.

And as explained above, it is an exceptional role for our sheltered little franchise. That's what 'special' means. Don't like it? Bitch about the franchise setting the bar so damn low.

I get irritated with how needy and look at me being gay has become.

Damn gays, wanting to be gay where I can see them.

It is no more special than being heterosexual, so I hope this character has more to offer than this 'honor'

Again, the actor is speaking about feeling honoured. There is nothing about the character being written as 'honourable'.

This is basic reading comprehension.

 

[Refuge]

Touchy.

I'm allowed my opinion that is reading comprehension too.. Honor is about something higher than playing a part that requires the character to be homosexual. That is an orientation nothing else.

 

[Trekkin]

Touchy.

Yeah. You can tell by my constant tears of such sweet sorrow.

I'm allowed my opinion...

Mmm-hmm...

...that is reading comprehension too..

Er, no? No it's not? The first half of that sentence has nothing at all to do with the end?

Honor is about something higher than playing a part that requires the character to be homosexual.

Honour has several meanings. One is simply an emotion that a person experiences.

Like most people here would, if offered the same opportunity. Presumably with a greater amount of excitable pant-wetting and screaming.

That is an orientation nothing else.

Being gay is an orientation. Winning a once-in-fifty-years tv role... ain't. Not unless the '+' at the end of LGBT+ has received a mighty big expansion without anyone telling me.

I really need to start washing my Sacred Rainbow Robe, and attending those hidden conclaves. I'm always the last to know about anything.

 

[BillJ]

Being gay is an orientation. Winning a once-in-fifty-years tv role... ain't. Not unless the '+' at the end of LGBT+ has received a mighty big expansion without anyone telling me.

They're trying to make us all GAY!!! It is the HOLLYWOOD agenda!!! The human race will END thanks to Star Trek having a HOMOSEXUAL character!!!

 

[Rahul]

Touchy.

I think you wanted to write "Touché" here

Trek went fifty years without having a gay main character. It's never had one on television (genderless space worms excepted) . Any gay character appearing is exceptional, in the very literal sense of the word.

So no, Trek doesn't deserve a pat on the back for taking 20 years to catch-up. However, this is all bullshit:



He's an actor. His 'conduct' that he feels honoured in doing, is acting in the role.

And as explained above, it is an exceptional role for our sheltered little franchise. That's what 'special' means. Don't like it? Bitch about the franchise setting the bar so damn low.



Damn gays, wanting to be gay where I can see them.



Again, the actor is speaking about feeling honoured. There is nothing about the character being written as 'honourable'.

This is basic reading comprehension.

Damn straight! (Or "right", I guess...)

He's being honored to play a "first" in Star Trek. (At least for a series - gay Sulu muddles the waters a little bit here). In the same way Kate Mulgrew was "honored" to play the first female Captain in Star Trek. She wasn't exactly "honored" to be "female" here either. But by the "being a first" part.

So long as its not his defining characteristic then I'm glad he's on the crew.

Full approval here. Both "gay" and "the fungus guy" don't exactly scream strong character. Those are both secondary attributes. Having the character be both gay, and a reclusive nerd would be very trope-y. I hope they subvert some chlichés, and he is the "cocky" gay fungus guy, the smartass, or something like that. Whatever, at least I hope he is a strong character. (As I hope btw for ALL characters in DIS as well)

 

[9gs]

Meh. People will keep watching because its a good show. Nothing more nothing less.

 

[Zonker]

Full approval here. Both "gay" and "the fungus guy" don't exactly scream strong character. Those are both secondary attributes. Having the character be both gay, and a reclusive nerd would be very trope-y. I hope they subvert some chlichés, and he is the "cocky" gay fungus guy, the smartass, or something like that. Whatever, at least I hope he is a strong character. (As I hope btw for ALL characters in DIS as well)

Something about "gay fungus guy" Makes me sure he's going to be a smartass. I don't really know that that would be any less tropey though. I just hope we don't get an awful pun about what a "fun guy" he is.

 

[Draculasaurus]

I think some people make too much of an issue about inclusion and representation in every little thing, but Star Trek is different.
Trek has had about 50 main characters in it's long existence, and it's about time there was a gay one.
It's just a demographic probability. It's realistic.

 

[Tuskin38]

No, he's the "space fungus guy" which is honestly going to take most of season 1 to explain or give any real reason for.

It is his specialty. I don't see why it need an explanation.

 

[JeffinOakland]

Delayed progress should not be congratulated.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Delayed progress should not be congratulated.

You talking about gay characters or the production time table?

 

[JeffinOakland]

You talking about gay characters or the production time table?

lol both

 

[Kemaiku]

It is his specialty. I don't see why it need an explanation.

It's fungus...that's not normal.

 

[Nerys Myk]

It's fungus...that's not normal.

True, most of the the time, a science specialty is the purview of a guest star not a regular.

 

[Tuskin38]

It's fungus...that's not normal.

They're in space. Nothing is 'normal'

 

[Nerys Myk]

His arc will be a homage to "Matango".