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T'Bonz, have you never seen that deleted scene that takes place just after the Romulan Commander excuses herself from Spock to go change into her civvies? She gets on the intercom with her sub-commander and says, "The schnook's falling for it hook, line and sinker! We're gonna be able to take the Enterprise without firing a shot!"
Seriously, though, she
was portrayed rather badly in the episode. To me, those scenes played like vintage Roddenberry. Based on some of his other screenwriting - not to mention several cringe-inducing memos reproduced in "The Making of Star Trek" book - I frequently got the impression that his sexual maturity never much progressed past age sixteen.
..and yet the show is by far the most famous of all the Treks. You see, there is a little dirty secret; its 'sexist' charm is part of the reason it endures.
Rob
I actually take exception to the idea that Star Trek was the most sexist of the Trek series. As a matter of fact I'd have to say that it was IMO the
least sexist.
Yes, Kirk got lucky every now and then. Yes, a lot of times the female characters would fall in love with Alpha Male types and betray their vows to Starfleet. Yes, the women wore revealing outfits but...
BUT look at what came later.
1. TNG had a kind of dunderheaded feminist slant to it that in many ways was reverse sexist. Each sexual experience for the females was almost
always equated with rape.
Tasha Yar: As a child she was hunted by rape gangs. She was captured by a threatening black man who wanted to
force her into marriage. The one time she had sex she was intoxicated.
Crusher: Not much romance for her but the romances I can recall were pretty fucked up. Odan was a man who was keeping secrets from her and who wanted to have lesbian sex with her once he switched bodies. Not rape but still a duplicitous relationship. Also there was that ghost dude she was fucking. Not really rape but he was using and manipulating her.
Troi: Oy! How many times was this woman raped? She was raped by a ball of light and impregnated. She was mind raped once on the series and then again in the movies. I think she got possessed and turned into a slutbag ho who had to fuck to stay young or something... Besides her sex life she was constantly forced to show off her tits despite the fact that
every other woman on the E-D wore uniforms like professional Starfleet officers do.
2. DS9 didn't have the rape thing going on and was a lot less sexist than most Trek but don't tell me Leeta was on the station because of her blinding intellect because I assure you there was no intellect to blind one with.
3. Voyager. Seven of Nine. The implants on her chest were larger than the implants on her face. She was put on the show to pander to the male demographic. If the producers were
really serious about creating an interesting character they either would have cast a male or they would have kept her wearing full Borg makeup for her time on the show. They just wanted a Baywatch babe to pull in ratings.
4. Enterprise - Do I
really need to point out how sexist this show was? More skin by far than
any incarnation of Trek. Those decon scenes were practically soft core. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Now I know the above examples were hardly exhaustive
but I think I've proven the point that just because Star Trek was a product of the 60s that doesn't mean the show was written by gutter dwelling cavemen. If anything the more modern and enlightened the writers and producers were the
more blatant they got in their Trekkian jerkoff fantasies.
Please note I have no problem with all the hot female ass Star Trek has given us over the years I just don't think it's fair that it's a "fact' that classic Trek was so goddamn sexist when it's actually pretty tame and respectable compared to 80s-00s Trek.
