What's up with the weird hair styles for the characters?

[Nerys Myk]

Anyway, she's a genetically modified alien.

No matter how many times this is mentioned @urrutiap will continue to ignore it and the fact the women are much more capable that he thinks.

Even Harry Mud in Discovery was just awful hes like a one man mercenary fast on his feet "terrorist" or whatever. in original Star Trek, wasn't he supposed to be some kind of hedonistic sex perv or something?

So, you're not familar with the character of Harry Mudd, then?
Here's a partial rap sheet courtesy of the Enterprise computer

Offense record. Smuggling. Sentence suspended. Transport of stolen goods. Purchase of space vessel with counterfeit currency. Sentences, psychiatric treatment, effectiveness disputed.

Harry racks up a few more in Mudd's Women and I, Mudd. While he seems to have an eye for the ladies and fine things, I wouldn't call him a "hedonistic sex perv". He's a con man and thief. He's definitely mercenary, but he's not a mercenary.

 

[The Wormhole]

whats up with the people that reply where they don't think the new Star Trek shows are just weird to begin with where they have weird stuff in them such as tall women carrying aliens over their shoulder Crap like that I'll tolerate if its from The Simpsons or Futurama..

Wut da fuq?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Further, neater, shorter, less complicated hairstyles have a lesser chance of getting tangled in machinery, catching on fire, snagging on rocks, etc. Unless everyone's wearing an invisible hairnet force field.

 

[Frontis]

Well I love Ortegas haircut, isn't it cool?

 

[evilchumlee]

I haven't really noticed any particularly odd hairstyles, although it shouldn't be a problem... it's the future, it's not 2024. Looking like 2024 would be weird.

Out of these three... sure Spock has "weird" hair, but he's Vulcan. That's how they look.

Number One has pretty traditional, "normal" hair.

Pike's hair is fabulous but nothing that I would see as particularly out of the ordinary.

M'Benga's hair seems like a pretty normal hairstyle.

Chapel is "normal" as well.

I don't love Uhura's hair in SNW, only because it's so vastly different from Nichelle Nichols but I don't think it would be anywhere even approaching appropriate to call her hairstyle "not normal".

That leaves La'an and Ortegas.

La'an's hair seems... generally fine to me. Nothing I would do a double take on if she walked past me.

Ortegas has "weird" hair, sure.

S1 Discovery...

Owo, Stamets, Tilly, and TwoDudesWhoProbablyHaveNames all have what I consider to me "normal" hair.

Detmer has was would otherwise be "normal" hair. It's only shaved on the side due to her implant.

I always thought Burnham's S1/2 hair was an odd styling but... like... i'm a white dude and i'm really not comfortable going indepth on how I feel about a black woman's hair style. (Although I do much prefer her S3 hairdo).

 

[fireproof78]

My thoughts about talking about hair.

 

[Mommy]

Hair has always been a thing.

Have you not heard of "Richer's beard"?

 

[Oddish]

Well I love Ortegas haircut, isn't it cool?

Yes. Why shouldn't characters have unique hairstyles? I always thought it was silly that the only male Starfleet characters with out of the ordinary hair were Worf and (in a few AU episodes) Neelix.

 

[Frontis]

We don't know what haircuts people will have in the future.
But it's interesting and fascinating that they do some speculations in SNW and try some different than the usual boring ones

 

[nightwind1]

Hair has always been a thing.

Have you not heard of "Richer's beard"?

No, but I've heard of Riker's beard.

 

[fireproof78]

Hair has always been a thing.

Have you not heard of "Richer's beard"?

Hair is a thing.

It's also a thing that I think people spend an exorbitant amount of time, money and worry over that I just don't care about.

 

[Yistaan]

Una: Chris, what else did you notice about the future where you are crippled?

Pike: I already told you Una, any attempt to alter that likely ends in Spock getting brain damaged and/or endless war with the Romulans!

Una: But you had hair in your vision right! So just shave your head in the future where you're Fleet Captain, go bald, and the vision CAN'T happen exactly as you saw because you already changed your hairstyle!!! And don't tell me shaving your head is going to cause a Romulan War or Spock to be fried.

Pike: ...

 

[Sketcher]

Maybe it's an age/location/cultural thing, but there is nothing about Ortega's or Chapel's hair that seems weird to me. Seen plenty of women walking around with those hairstyles. Pike's gets crazy, sure, but I feel at this point it's an inside joke with the production team.

 

[Greg Cox]

Maybe it's an age/location/cultural thing, but there is nothing about Ortega's or Chapel's hair that seems weird to me. Seen plenty of women walking around with those hairstyles. Pike's gets crazy, sure, but I feel at this point it's an inside joke with the production team.

Likewise. I live not far from a local university and I see all sorts of folks with hip, modern haircuts, along with more traditional dos.

Fashion-wise, SNW looks like 2024 the same way TOS reflected 1960s styles: Beattle wigs, mini-skirts, go-go boots, etc. Just as all STAR TREK shows and movies betray the eras in which they were produced.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Maybe it's an age/location/cultural thing, but there is nothing about Ortega's or Chapel's hair that seems weird to me.

If it doesn’t seem weird, it’s because it’s not.

What’s weird is some aged keyboard warrior passing judgement on women for making their own choices.

 

[Yistaan]

What’s weird is some aged keyboard warrior passing judgement on women for making their own choices.

While you're correct that passing judgment on fashion choices shouldn't be a thing, it's hardly limited to men passing judgment on women. Women won't even talk to guys if they aren't dressed or fashioned in the way they feel that men should be fashioned or fits women's definitions of how men should dress and act in a "manly" way. If anything, I've encountered FAR more examples of women passing judgment on men for fashion choices than the other way around, although you have the occasional example like the comments being responded to.

 

[Greg Cox]

I still remember somebody, possibly on this very board, objecting to Jess Bush's visible tattoos -- because Chapel wasn't "the kind of woman" who would have a tattoo.

I felt obliged to point out that tattoos were hardly confined to sailors and carnies these days, and that most modern young woman sported tattoos -- including pretty much all of the nurses at our local clinic and hospital.

Tattoos no longer had the same connotation that poster in question seemed to think they had. Possibly showing their age there.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Fashion choices aren't written in stone, after all; they change as we do.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

While you're correct that passing judgment on fashion choices shouldn't be a thing, it's hardly limited to men passing judgment on women. Women won't even talk to guys if they aren't dressed or fashioned in the way they feel that men should be fashioned or fits women's definitions of how men should dress and act in a "manly" way. If anything, I've encountered FAR more examples of women passing judgment on men for fashion choices than the other way around, although you have the occasional example like the comments being responded to.

I’m not talking about general trends. I’m talking about (repeated) misogynistic comments that come from the OP.

Not just in this thread. Many, many others.

 

[Oddish]

While you're correct that passing judgment on fashion choices shouldn't be a thing, it's hardly limited to men passing judgment on women. Women won't even talk to guys if they aren't dressed or fashioned in the way they feel that men should be fashioned or fits women's definitions of how men should dress and act in a "manly" way.

Reminds me of this book called "Undatable", by these two women... it had all these things they didn't like. Nearly every article of clothing a guy could wear was nixed at some point. Along with pretty much all pets: big dogs, small dogs, cats, reptiles, rodents, I think birds too. Don't remember if they objected to fish or potted plants or not. And male pattern baldness was an issue for them, too.

As an older, overweight, balding guy who lives with two cats and is sometimes seen wearing a Pikachu beanie and/or a "There’s coffee in that nebula" T-shirt, I'd probably be on their "Avoid" list. A fact that bothers me not at all.