Two words: Hell and no. A show must have one hot guy in it, or I'm gone. Yeah, guys are always getting that wrong. You'd think they'd be motivated to be more precise. Well when are the coming to get him. We've been waiting! We'll capture Trip Tucker and keep him chained up in the cargo hold for engineering and other duties. Waitaminute, I think I might have figured out how to make this idea work. Could we have guys who are recurring characters?
I agree. Also, it would be very difficult to find a believable premise within the Trekverse to explain the uniformity. That said, if there was a gay porn version of Star Trek, I'd watch it.
Oh, please! It wouldn't be that hard. In the case of the all-women ship, just pick a planet with a matriarchal society (Like Signet Fourteen, mentioned briefly in "Tomorrow is Yesterday") and take the captain from there, and let her pick her own crew. 90% of the time she'll pick mostly women, and if she's really chauvinistic, an all-female crew is a no-brainer.
I'm sure Starfleet also has fraternization rules, and people seem to manage to get around those with alarming regularity. They also manage to smuggle illegal substances (Romulan Ale) into Federation space on a regular basis, so why should non-discrimination-rules be such a huge obstacle?
As for fraternisation: Troi and Riker being together or Picard dating that woman from the science department doesn't seem to be against the rules. Riker and Troi were very open about it and Picard was uncomfortable with his relationship for other reasons. So we don't know what these rules are. There are armies today that allow relationships between soldiers of different rank as long as they can keep this out of their job. But it has been made very clear that Starfleet opposes discrimination based on race and gender, so a captain judging his crew by these criteria would look pretty bad (while Romulan Ale isn't openly presented to the public). Hell, even today, such an attitude openly displayed by a military commander would get him/her in trouble. You can get away with something like that for one episode (like "Take Me Out To The Holosuite"), but as a premise for a whole series? It doesn't sound very credible. Besides, I don't even see the appeal in artificially limiting your character options like that.
But fraternization rules are only put in place to keep people from playing favorites in their respective posts - certain our perfect-pod-people are beyond such things? I find it difficult to believe that romulan ale is prohibited by the UFP. Because it wouldn't jibe with the socialist utopianess of the UFP
Y'know...I think I would watch (for quite some time and give it plenty of opportunity) almost any professionally made series set in the Star Trek universe. Is that lame? -Rabittooth EDIT: Wasn't there an all-Vulcan ship in Starfleet? For that reason, I don't think an all-female crew is completely out of the question, although it seems unlikely that they'd do it.
Well, of course they are! It might as well not be, but that's the way it's always portrayed. It's like: "Have some Romulan Ale! I had to sniff a Ferengi's butt to get that across the Neutral Zone!" Why sure it would! After all, in the socialist utopia we once knew as the Soviet Union, how many women were ever named to high party posts?
Here are B&B's thoughts on an all-female pilot. B: "Like...there are two hot chicks on the screen...heh heh." &B: "Uh...why aren't they making out? Ah-heh" B: "This movie like sucks ass. heh heh." &B: "touch de titi!" B: "The whole thing is like...totally in like spanish or something. heh heh. Deflector. Deflector la sensora." &B: "You said 'hole'. ah-heh." B: "uhhh...oh yeah."
Only way it would work would be if they were all of the same alien race and that race's men all died out and they had to resort to cloning or parthenogenesis for reproduction. Also you would have a few human crew members on board, they don't want men there beacuse it could be culture shock or the women from the alien species aren't attracted to men any more because of genetic engineering or breeding etc etc....
Neither would a capitalist utopia qualify . . . but that's a horse of a different color. I just thought of how such a show could work. Put a bunch of hot green Orion women, who used their pheromones to steal a Starfleet ship, and have them pillage and plunder! RR
A bunch of orion slave women use their pheromones to get a sweet deal on a decommissioned constitution class ship from the fleet salvage yard and then go off to plunder and act as Privateers!!! I would so totally watch that show!!!!
And they use sex to get out of every situation, coining a new phrase in fandom: du sex machina Long internet debates will ensue about the quality and originality of the writing. Also, nerds will weigh in on which, if any, of the superhot babes is good enough for him.
Sorry, but no I wouldn't, and I am the living embodiment of Star Trek's core audience. The only show with an all female cast larger than one or two people that I can think of that ever turned out to be any good was The Golden Girls. I can't think of too many shows with an all male cast that were that good either.