Well, they did have some ~innuendos~ (read: hawt female cast members making out on screen - and even that raised the wrath down South). I should be very much surprised if we have anything like permanently gay crew members on Star Trek before we raise little Trekkies, though, and lesbians - pshaw, yeah, dream on. Although, we might get a Seven-like bisexual character who makes out with a hot cast member in some episodes and then becomes a good girl and marries Foreman a man.

There are still a couple of things that severely bug me with this Utopia - Lesbian characters or, indeed, female characters come to mind, because as much as I love Star Trek and its women - gender equality is not exactly a strong suit of the canon, and its ethnocentricism isn't funny, either.