Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
Everything I hear about the cisgender straight man that is Andy Robinson just makes me think “huh the gays really DO keep on winning don’t we?” And I think that’s great of him and us
“and of course, Sid is one of the most beautiful men I’ve ever met in my life. And I didn’t meet him until about two minutes before the scene, and I just went… fuck… this guy is hot”
- Andy Robinson, who says this unprompted whenever he can
Not only was it initially a spur of the moment decision, it continued to be so. They never rehearsed any of their scenes together, just relied on “natural chemistry” according to the DS9 companion
Thanks to @thewuzzy‘s reply for reminding me that he also said “I think we made the producers shit themselves!”
Also great: Wilson Cruz nodding enthusiastically while Andy went on about how hot Sid was. And then tearfully thanking Andy for playing the queer subtext too obviously to be ignored even when the producers were still too cowardly to make it explicit.
Other highlights include:
Wilson crying in shock and happiness at the huge turnout to the panel, standing room only and people crammed into corners
Andrew describing his thoughts on seeing Sid for the first time as “Oh fuck… he’s HOT!”
Wilson tearfully telling Andrew that Garak made him feel like he didn’t have to be afraid entering the acting world as an openly gay man in the 90s
Wilson calling himself Blu del Barrio’s “proud dad” and saying that he and Anthony Rapp planned that they would immediately take Blu and Ian Alexander under their wings and create a queer found family on set “Because d'uh”
Wilson holding Blu’s hand for moral support while they described developing the they/them pronouns scene jointly with the producers
Blu saying Wilson took them to breakfast on their first day on set and that he was the first person they opened up to about their family and what they were going through
Andrew breaking down in tears as he embraced Wilson at the end of the panel
tl;dr the LGBT panel at Destination Star Trek was amazing
destination star trek london was really great but 3 Andy robinson things about him being Good
1. at the panel about queerness in trek, Wilson Cruz was nearly on the verge of tears describing his experiences being an out gay actor in the 90s and how important star trek is to him as a positive gay role, and then he turns to robinson and reaches to pat his knee and is like, i hope you understand how important it is how YOU talked about sexuality even in the 90s and 00s and how much it means to people like us, and then ROBINSON was nearly crying too
and in between them, blu del Barrio was wearing their t-shirt that says 100% boys years, exactly what they were surrounded by
2. Andy robinson described himself as, and i quote, “your typical cisgender male he/him” which is hilarious
3. at another panel, I put my hand up to ask a question, the moderator referred to be as a lady, and before /i/ could correct him, robinson was already correcting him off-mic, having met me yesterday
i thanked him after and he was like “oh no its nothing” and I’m just like. ur a 79 year old cis man, everyone else just saw u do that and demo the correct etiquette, it DOES matter and THANK u
anyway gays keep winning bc DST was excellent and I had a wonderful time
I absolutely love it when the Star Trek cast directs an episode. The TNG ep where Barclay de-evolves into a spider? Directed by Bev herself. The episode where Ro Laren leaves Starfleet for the Maquis? Directed by Sir Patrick Stewart himself. The slew of eps directed by Levar Burton? Poetic Cinema. And don’t even get me started on those directed by Jonathan Frakes across pretty much all Treks. (And these are all TNG folks - not counting Voyager’s Robbie McNeil directing Voy and Enterprise eps!) Like the first fans of the crew are the crew themselves and that’s actually awesome.
