John Wenz's previous work for The Toast can be found here.

Editorial Note:

Be very certain you want to get involved with this post. Very, very certain.

I am going to keep this relatively short, because it involves two things that, at times, have limited circles: Star Trek and LGBT things.

Deep Space Nine is the gayest Star Trek.

I say this as a queer male, not as someone who uses that word like junior high school kids use it. After all, I became quite used to a particular homonym for French cigarettes and bundles of sticks in my youth,

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