In "Charlie X", Tina Lawton is supposed to be a girl Charlie's own age to date. How the hell is a 17 year old serving in Starfleet? Let alone on the premier ship?
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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In TOS, if we get into the nitty gritty of the intentions of the time of that episode, the Enterprise was initially cast as this rare type of vessel that was capable of interstellar travel rather than just patrolling a star system or delivering cargo in a region of space.
I thought that The Enterprise was the flagship of The Federation? Maybe it wasn't earlier on but should have been by the end of the series!
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Am I mistaken.....I just watched Spock's Brain and it looks like Pete Kellet plays one of the Morgs on the planet surface and one of Kara's bodyguards. (?)
Thank you. A bottle of 100 year old Saurian Brandy is on the way to your house!
You've never heard of Enlisted personnel? You can join the modern military at 17. I'm sure the Enterprise is the first assignment for a lot of Enlisted and Officers. It's not going to staffed solely by veterans.
Nope. Never mentioned. She's just another working ship, albeit one of the 12 largest and most capable in the fleet at the time. Not the oldest and not the newest, and not the most important. It's just out there doing the same job as all her sister ships. The word "flagship" is never uttered in TOS. And Kirk is apparently younger and lower in time-in-rank than any other starship commander, so why would he get to captain a flagship?
The 1701-D is called the flagship in TNG, though, not having a flag officer (admiral) aboard, it's not an accurate appellation.
Oh for Pete's sake, not this again...
The Enterprise D is the Flagship of the Federation in what we would consider the modern retail sense of the word. It's the best and most prestigious, like Tiffanys at Fifth Avenue & 57th in Manhattan.
Don't take things so literally. Rand was DEFINITELY portrayed as around the same age as Kirk (IE in her thirties). Tina was probably in her early twenties = much more 'age appropriate' for Charlie.
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In TOS, women only ever kick. No woman ever hits, because television censorship would not allow it in the 60s.
Why would it be censored? It's not sexual. Did you actually find this out for certain?
It wasn't allowed. Even Batgirl on Batman had to kick only. No hitting, no martial arts.
I was there watching, so I know they didn't show it on US TV. However, no mention of censorship here, not even any mention that it was network policy. The most we hear here is that Yvonne Craig thinks getting very violent is unfeminine. She doesn't even mention punching.
Don't know about TV, but in comic books women were not allowed to punch in the 1960s. They kicked and threw the occasional karate chop -- but never punched. Finally sometime in the mid 1970s they were allowed to punch.
Maybe it was an artistic choice by all the writers and artists but it never happened.
Maybe it was an artistic choice by all the writers and artists but it never happened.
It was a Mad Men world, and sexism lead to some ideas we consider weird now, because bigotry is dumb. It was not that actresses did not allow themselves to do it. The powers that be did not allow it.
I don't believe there was a "ban". Not bigotry either. They didn't hate women. It was just the WW2 generation clinging to gender roles.
