{"id":94803,"date":"2026-03-01T22:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=94803"},"modified":"2026-03-01T22:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:36:23","slug":"other-worldly-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/03\/01\/other-worldly-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Worldly Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You wanna talk about outta sight casting?&nbsp; <strong><em>Star Trek: Starfleet Academy<\/em><\/strong> is going further than <strong>Gene Roddenberry <\/strong>ever imagined \u2013 we\u2019re getting our first gay Klingon! &nbsp;Since the show started, people have speculated that the character of Jay-Den Kraag could have a secret.&nbsp; And he sure does.&nbsp; In the most recent episode, he had more than a little sexual tension with a fellow academy cadet.&nbsp; Actor <strong>Karim Diane <\/strong>portrays Jay-Den and he wrote this on social media: \u201cNot gonna pretend like I wasn\u2019t afraid to take on this role.&nbsp; Part of me still kinda is.&nbsp; I knew that I was gonna, you know, receive a lot of negative comments that were rooted in homophobia and racism and bigotry.&nbsp; But what y\u2019all have to understand, I have received 10 times more messages from LGBTQ people around the world telling me how much the character Jay-Den means to them.&nbsp; And that is all that matters to me, truly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Daley <\/strong>had a close encounter with the <em>Muppets <\/em>on <strong><em>Sesame Street<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; His first scene was with Bert and Elmo.&nbsp; \u201cWe\u2019re fans of your athleticism, but also of your knitting,\u201d said Bert, forever putting to rest those pesky rumors about his relationship with Ernie (he admitted that he\u2019s knitting his \u201croommate\u201d a scarf).&nbsp; But things really got cooking when Tom shared the screen with Cookie Monster.&nbsp; Daley gifted him with a kind of \u201ccookie cozy\u201d \u2013 with predictable results.&nbsp; You can check it out on our website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You wanna talk about outta sight casting?&nbsp; Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is going further than Gene Roddenberry ever imagined \u2013 we\u2019re getting our first gay Klingon! &nbsp;Since the show started, people have speculated that the character of Jay-Den Kraag could have a secret.&nbsp; And he sure does.&nbsp; In the most recent episode, he had more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94804,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94803\/revisions\/94804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}