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Is that photo... familiar?

This tournament was probably the peak of her career. She beat Rybakina, Sabalenka and Rogers from a set down. Amazing movement, amazing shots.

It's definitely in a first in a big, popular, global franchise.

Season 4, episode 6 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a popular Star Trek’s spin-off series that ran from 1993 to 1999 marked one of the first ever wlw kisses is TV history. In the story, the two characters, main cast Jadzia (played by Terry Farrell) and guest star Lenara (played by Susanna Thompson) are humanoid aliens, who have a symbiotic lifeform inside their bodies. These lifeforms live much longer than the humanoids and after their death, they move to a new body, but carry the memories that they had in their previous life. In this episode, the two characters used to be married in their previous bodies, as a man and a woman, but as soon as they meet again, they fall each other again as two women as well and soon realise that they even have more in common than they used to in their previous lives.

Due to its inclusion of a kiss between two characters of the same gender, this is one of the most controversial episodes in the history of Star Trek. According to writer and producer Ronald D. Moore, "Some felt betrayed, didn't want to see this in their homes. An affiliate down south cut the kiss from their broadcast." Terry Farrell agreed, "There were quite a few people that were upset, that had thought there should be a warning, because they were upset that they couldn't have a conversation with their children about what the episode was about. So, we did something controversial that, and still to this day people come up to me and say, 'Thank you.”

Conversely, writer René Echevarria said, "My mother was absolutely scandalized by the episode. Shocked and dismayed. She told me 'I can't believe you did that. There should have been a parental guidance warning.”

Producer Steve Oster recollected that a man called the show and complained, "You're ruining my kids by making them watch two women kiss like that." It was a production assistant who took the call. After hearing the man's complaint, the PA asked if the man would've been okay with his kids seeing one woman shoot the other. When the man said he would be okay with that, the PA said, "You should reconsider who's messing up your kids."

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