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Also, Uhura was clearly banging Scotty in the Fifth movie (I don't blame anybody for forgetting that, because the film sucked so bad, I wish I could erase it from my memory too!)

Well, I don't know if she actually sleeping with Scotty, but some of their interactions both in the films and in the episodes suggest a long term, off-camera relationship that that was more than just friendship.
 
The lack of love interests could be explained, if in the 1960s, television writers and producers didn't want to devote major plot points to minorities.
 
Again, that's for actual reasons that make sense in context. George Takei was annoyed that Sulu wasn't getting enough screen time in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home so he suggested to Harve Bennett that they include a scene in 1980s San Francisco of Sulu running into a small boy who happens to be his great-great-(etc.)-great-grandfather. The setting of San Francisco is simply because that's where Starfleet is based, as established seven years earlier in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The scene unfortunately ended up being cut because the kid who would've played Sulu's ancestor had a horrendous stage mother who made it impossible to get any filming done, because the kid was too nervous to actually do anything with her bossing him around. Sad story.

I know my Trek history.

Although the scene was included in the novelization of the movie (along with an explanation that Scotty had known that the physicist he was speaking to would go on to create transparent alluminum). ;)
 
Although the scene was included in the novelization of the movie (along with an explanation that Scotty had known that the physicist he was speaking to would go on to create transparent alluminum). ;)

A good example of 'less is more' in storytelling; in the movie, Scotty's line ("How do you know he didn't invent the stuff?") is funny and gets the point across ("It's just a show; I really should just relax.").
 
I agree that sexuality will not come to fore as long as Berman is in charge. Everyone has made it quite clear that he's the reason it never did IOTL. I mean, really, as ColeMercury mentions, having Reed pull the Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today routine, even after it had apparently been discussed with Keating, who was ready, willing, and able to play him as gay; and in the new millennium, no less, on a show that's part of a franchise renowned for its progressive attitudes... To put it diplomatically, Berman was (and probably still is) obviously uncomfortable with the notion; I'll leave it at that, because name-calling won't solve anything.

Rick Berman was in charge of Deep Space Nine and the show had many episodes in regards sexuality. If I'm not mistaken the show featured the first ever lesbian kiss in Star Trek history. Also look at the Changelings/Founders/Odo's People. We don't know all the facets of what happens when two or more of them link together. But I think the fact that the merger you saw between two or more them is a clear indication of sex. You also had issues of cross dressing and transgenderism addressed as well. DS9 pushed Star Trek to areas it had never been before and delved far deeper into the world of trek than any other version in my opinion.
 
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