Especially given the instances in the show where the actors wanted things to be more queer, but weren’t allowed. Frakes with the non-binary alien and Bashir/Garak come to mind. “It was the 90s” doesn’t work when several people on the show wanted more queer stuff and (as said above) didn’t approve of the homophobic shit that made it in.
“It was the 90s” only goes so far tbh
Especially given the instances in the show where the actors wanted things to be more queer, but weren’t allowed. Frakes with the non-binary alien and Bashir/Garak come to mind. “It was the 90s” doesn’t work when several people on the show wanted more queer stuff and (as said above) didn’t approve of the homophobic shit that made it in.