My Diagonal Life

31st August 2011

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Why there are no gays in the future:

In one of the scenes with Guinan tutoring Lal about human sexuality, Whoopi Goldberg altered one of her script lines in order to turn a strictly heterosexual explanation into a gender-neutral version: “According to the script, Guinan was supposed to start telling Lal, ‘When a man and a woman are in love …’ and in the background, there would be men and women sitting at tables, holding hands[…] But Whoopi refused to say that. She said, ‘This show is beyond that. It should be ‘When two people are in love.’” It was also decided on set that the background of the scene show a same-sex couple holding hands, but “someone ran to a phone and made a call to the production office and that was nixed. [Producer] David Livingston came down and made sure that didn’t happen.” (TNG research assistant Richard Arnold)

- From Memory-Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki.