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Saturday, June 30, 2001

Queer Trek: the long, long

Queer Trek: the long, long struggle to get a gay Trek character on-screen (awesome photoshopping, too).

Roddenberry's lawyer, Leonard Maizlish, even went so far as to write story memos and rewrite scripts. And Maizlish was hardly sensitive to the gay issue. "The last time I saw [Maizlish] I was helping Herb Wright pack up his office," says Gerrold. "The lawyer came to make sure we weren't stealing anything. To my face, he called me 'an AIDS-infected cocksucker. A fucking faggot.'"

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