![]() “Some really phenomenal stuff is coming, and if you think that the out gay showrunner and his more-than-supportive writing partner and friend of more than 20 years are just going to kill a gay character to be done with a gay character, you’re wrong. That, he added, will be “far more exciting for the gay community to watch” than the “gays, they’re just like us” moment of two men affectionately bickering while brushing their teeth. “These two characters are going to be instrumental in saving the universe,” Harberts said. That story is described by the showrunners as critical to the resolution of “Discovery” season one’s story. We look forward to watching their love story unfold.” Culber, once again bursting through doors that were once closed to gay actors in Hollywood. “Wilson Cruz has leveraged his talent as an actor to create a smart, lovable, and strong character in Dr. Death is not always final in the ‘Star Trek’ universe, and we know the producers plan to continue exploring and telling Stamets and Culbers’ epic love story,” GLAAD spokesperson Nick Adams said in a statement. “Alongside so many fans, GLAAD cheered the arrival of ‘Star Trek’s’ first gay relationship, and we share in their mourning over the death of a beloved groundbreaking character. “Discovery” producers shared their plans for Culber ahead of the release of “Despite Yourself” Sunday night. The organization’s 2016 report called out the high number of female queer characters affected by the trend, noting, “served no other purpose than to further the narrative of a more central (and often straight, cisgender) character.” “One of my favorite scenes that I’ve ever shot in my 25-year career is still yet to be seen in this season,” Cruz said.Ī GLAAD count last summer pegged the number of gay characters killed on series television shows in the last two years at 62. The character’s role figures to be significant. The showrunner’s reference to the mycelial network indicates that when Culber reappears, it will be the same Culber who shared a two-year relationship with Stamets, returned to the story via fictional science stuff. “We realized that we absolutely didn’t want to see him in the Mirror Universe, because we wanted to keep him pure for the rest of this journey,” Harberts said. According to Harberts, no Culber doppelganger will appear on “Discovery.” But the Culber that will be seen in future episodes will not hail from the Mirror Universe. In addition to killing Culber, “Despite Yourself” also re-introduced the Mirror Universe - the parallel dimension first seen in the original “Star Trek” and filled with doppelgangers of the franchise’s core characters. “He’s a character in the story,” Berg said. Sensitive to concerns over the “bury your gays” trope that drew fire from LGBTQ communities in recent seasons as an extreme number of openly gay characters were killed off television, they are providing spoilers about Culber’s future on “Discovery.” Harberts and Berg are longtime writing partners who have known each other since they were in college at Northwestern, where Harberts first came out to Berg as gay. “All you have to do is think about all the things that Stamets has said on camera about the mycelial network,” the scientific revelation that has been central to season one’s story, “and about life and death and I think that the audience will certainly understand that this is not an ending, it’s a beginning.” “We have a really smart audience and an audience that I think thrives on nuance,” Harberts said. ![]() ![]() But according to Berg and fellow showrunner Aaron Harberts, death is not the end for Culber or “the married couple.” That onscreen relationship was transformed in Sunday’s episode, “Despite Yourself,” in which Culber was apparently murdered, his neck broken by Shazad Latif’s Lt. ![]()
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