Dr. Crusher was so hot
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Ya, for the life of me I could never figure out why the hell he would have written that. Your Ron Burgundy line sums it up perfectly.
Now that you mention it, I think he did!
...You mean Majel Barrett, and NOT Jonathan Frakes, right?
I have to admit I wouldnt mind putting it in.
Why not? I'd fancy a skip down the corridors just to see if heads looked away form their Padd :P lol
She wore a wig in every episode- still beautiful.
The Star Trek future was more (sexually) liberated from the traditional Judeo-Christian mores of its major audience (pre-internet distribution, remember).
That's why you'd get responses like Troi's "a healthy sensuality" for the hedonistic Edo, and Riker's emotional attachment to the holographic character Minuet, and more "valid" hedonistic cultures like Betazed's, etc.
Both Sirtis and Gates wanted characters that contrasted with the broad-shouldered Dynasty Bitch typecast of the era (Joan Collins' own Trek legacy notwithstanding). They achieved power and respect without giving up their softer, more feminine - and sexual - natures.
Nowadays though, some women act like longshoremen - (ok, actual longshorewomen notwithstanding....). Like they have to beat men at being apes. The Star Trek future seemed to suggest that society became more accommodating of natural differences, and less dog-eat-dog, economically, socially and gender-wise.
"Striptease queens" (are there such any more? Non-transvestite, I mean?) are seductive, sensual and accommodating. Fashion models are cold and distant. Not sure what other analogue GR could have used, and not surprised what he aimed for being sexually-liberated reveals the era's chauvinism by today's more gender-null, gender-bent, anti-traditional, non-conventional, PC-pandering standards.
Today Crusher could have the walk of a "Strip Queen" - and the penis of one, too.
Not that there's anything wrong with that (if you have the luxury of not worrying about the biological reproduction of your tribe or the species).
IE, GR - and Star Trek's fictional view on the future - was a product of its time. And hey, it wasn't all about movie popcorn sales then.
That's why you'd get responses like Troi's "a healthy sensuality" for the hedonistic Edo, and Riker's emotional attachment to the holographic character Minuet, and more "valid" hedonistic cultures like Betazed's, etc.
Both Sirtis and Gates wanted characters that contrasted with the broad-shouldered Dynasty Bitch typecast of the era (Joan Collins' own Trek legacy notwithstanding). They achieved power and respect without giving up their softer, more feminine - and sexual - natures.
Nowadays though, some women act like longshoremen - (ok, actual longshorewomen notwithstanding....). Like they have to beat men at being apes. The Star Trek future seemed to suggest that society became more accommodating of natural differences, and less dog-eat-dog, economically, socially and gender-wise.
"Striptease queens" (are there such any more? Non-transvestite, I mean?) are seductive, sensual and accommodating. Fashion models are cold and distant. Not sure what other analogue GR could have used, and not surprised what he aimed for being sexually-liberated reveals the era's chauvinism by today's more gender-null, gender-bent, anti-traditional, non-conventional, PC-pandering standards.
Today Crusher could have the walk of a "Strip Queen" - and the penis of one, too.
Not that there's anything wrong with that (if you have the luxury of not worrying about the biological reproduction of your tribe or the species).
IE, GR - and Star Trek's fictional view on the future - was a product of its time. And hey, it wasn't all about movie popcorn sales then.
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