In this quadrilogy of very queer episodes, we tackle the past, present, and hopeful future of one of our favorite franchises. Our regular guest is Eleanor Tremeer, who has probably written stuff about sff you've already read, and has graciously agreed to join forces with us here. For the first episode in this series, we talk the history of queer coding in Trek, as well as canon Trek's attempts at including queer characters and the trope of the depraved bisexual. We talk about Garak and Dax a lot, as you might guess.

Eleanor on Twitter: @ExtraTremeerial

Eleanor on io9: https://io9.gizmodo.com/author/eleanortremeer

Eleanor on Babbel: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/contributors/eleanor-tremeer

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