Steve said:
The main point of fan fiction is to read between the lines and take the
show
places where it didn't go on TV. Just repeating what was on TV would be
pointless,
therefore any fan fiction is not canon by definition, but that doesn't
mean it is
not in the context of the show. One area that fan fiction looks at often
is
possible relationships between the characters above and beyond what we see
on
screen, and there is just as much evidence for homosexual as there is for heterosexual relationships between the characters, that is very little
with some
hints.
Hear, hear! I would also like to refer to Henry Jenkins' essay "Out of the Closet and Into the Universe," in Tulloch & Jenkins, "Science Fiction Audiences," which makes many interesting points about media representation of future sexualities.
-(Y)