In "The Outcast" from the 5th season of TNG, Jonathan Frakes wanted the character of Soren to be played by a man. And he would have to kiss him.

I'm glad Kate was so forthright, and that they've buried the hatchet. It's very sad. Watching some of her convention videos, it seems clear she really struggled under the a lot of the "first female captain" expectations -- both her own and other people's. The whole, if you're too sexy people won't take you seriously as captain, but if you're too commanding people will be put off, if you're too emotional you're a "hysterical woman", if you're too cold you're an emotionless bitch, etc. Mulgrew apparently strongly resisted any romantic storyline between Janeway and Chakotay because she felt it would totally destroy her credibility as a captain, but funny enough, it was one of the female producers (Jeri Taylor) who pushed that relationship the hardest. I think a lot of the reason why Janeway gets so much criticism for being inconsistent is because the writers and executives couldn't make up their mind on these questions either. Whatever else you want to say about her, I've always given Mulgrew a lot of credit for being able to weld together as strong of a character as she did under such conflicting directives. It's maybe not great to say this, but on some level, I can understand why she was pissed that she'd spent three years trying to carefully navigate this, and then boom, the blatant fanservice character 7 of 9 waltzes in and steals the show. But that's still no excuse for her bullying of Jeri Ryan. If anything, it's worse that she took that out on another woman who was also the subject of a lot of sexist crap in her own right. Like I said, I'm glad they buried the hatchet. And they were professional enough to act the hell out of their scenes together; I never would have guessed their relationship was so bad off-camera. I'm definitely interested to read this book!