LGBT Character Of The Week - Yoshi Mishima
This weeks character hails from the Star Trek Universe! Yoshi Mishima was a character in the Starfleet Acadamy comic that ran from 1996 - 1998. As we recently got a new Star Trek movie trailer, I felt it topical.
Yoshi went on several adventures with his teammates in the academy, but the topic of his sexuality came up when they met an alien named Halakith. Apparently her species is dying, so non-reproductive sex was considered taboo to their culture as it didn't help the species survive. They eventually grudgingly work through this argument, but it's the last we ever see of Yoshi as the comic was cancelled two issues later.
Star Trek has an unfortunate history with gay plotlines. It's known that the creator Gene Roddenberry was supportive of their inclusion in the show, but the shows producers in later years were less than sympathetic. Yoshi, in this comic, was actually the very first openly gay human in the Star Trek universe because of this.
Maybe if the movie does well, we'll get another shot.
Sgt. Sausagepants
Posted to Comics, LGBT Character of the Week on 25 November 2008
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Yeah, I thought they cured "teh gay" in the Star Trek universe...the same way they cured poverty, fashion sense, humor and humility.