Gizmodo: "‘Starfleet Academy’ Could Be Heading to a Big Queer Love Triangle: Darem returns to the academy w/Jay-Den. It’s certainly a lot of hints for the show to be dropping that there might be something more to flourish between Jay-den+Darem, and even Kyle as well now that he+Jay-den are together"

Gizmodo:

https://gizmodo.com/starfleet-academy-lgbtq-jay-den-darem-kyle-2000724518

By James Whitbrook

"In “Ko’Zeine” Darem asks Jay-Den to be his best man at the wedding, and comforts him when he’s unsure of how he can play such a meaningful role when he doesn’t actually agree with Darem getting married. After it all falls apart and Darem returns to the academy with Jay-Den—going home, as the young Klingon puts it to him—he even makes a deal of being jokingly begrudging towards Jay-den’s romantic relationship with Kyle.

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Hawkins went a step further to TV Insider, describing how he thinks Darem sees Jay-Den’s relationship with Kyle. “I wouldn’t say he hates him. I would say he’s jealous of Kyle because Kyle can say what he wants,” the actor noted, “Kyle is very upfront, and he can say what he wants. He’s living the life that Darem would want to live. I think Kyle is a character that Darem secretly really admires.”

Now, Starfleet Academy could just do a typical love triangle (but queer), but it’s not like there isn’t a precedent for the show to potentially field a polyamorous relationship with Kyle, Jay-Den, and Darem. After all, we saw Jay-Den himself being raised in a poly Klingon family, with two fathers and a mother, so it’s not like he grew up with the concept being unfamiliar to him.

We’ve even had brief dialogue in the background before from Darem alluding to his open sexuality, regardless of gender—and of course, one repeated worldbuilding touch the show has fallen back on so far has been establishing a lot more interspecies hybridization in general by the 32nd century, so it seems clear that by this point in Star Trek‘s timeline, people are just more open and fluid when it comes to relationships of all sorts in general.

It’d be nice to see a Star Trek show that leverages its far-future setting to represent that kind of love, especially as part of its burgeoning queer representation—especially when some of the other Trek shows recently have been very reluctant to deviate from the heteronormative standard."

Link:

https://gizmodo.com/starfleet-academy-lgbtq-jay-den-darem-kyle-2000724518