Why no women captains?

[Guy Gardener]

Data was tasering people.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

Garth says he was 'taught' the power of transmutation but it's more plausible that they altered his genome and his insanity was a side effect so he could well be human. It's why I think ST Into Darkness would have been better off using Garth - genetic tweaks can save Kirk but at what cost?

Similarly, I've always assumed that the Vulcan nerve pinch must have a telepathic component, because it makes no scientific sense and anybody could learn it, and then they let Data do it, sigh.

That never bothered me. I just assumed it requires extreme strength combined with extreme precision. The less you have of either, the less effective it becomes. Ergo, humans (and various others) can learn it - with extreme difficulty - but most of the time they'd be far better off just stunning someone with a phaser anyway. And most species which have comparable strength to Vulcans have no reason to be interested in a such a technique, anyway, except for Data.

 

[MAGolding]

About the origin of Garth:

GARTH: I am Lord Garth, formerly of Izar, and I lead the future masters of the universe.
KIRK: I'm sorry, Lord Garth.
GARTH: You Earth people are a stiff necked lot, aren't you?
KIRK: Release him.
GARTH: I'm afraid that subjugating you won't be enough. You must be confined. And all the people of the galaxy who will not bow to my will must be confined or destroyed.

That gives the strong impression that Izar, or wherever Garth is from, is not an Earth colony.

 

[Guy Gardener]

A century earlier Garth was a Star Ship Captain, so at the least, he is from a Federation World.

Dude is in an Insane Asylum named after the island where they held Napoleon Bonapart, a figure that many insane people mistook themselves for.

 

[somebuddyX]

Mongukas of Glastene IX had been putting the psychotic mentallic destabiliser feminade into the local Federation regional telepathic field which basically did a lot of nothing except turn female starships captains crazy, or as Senator Vok described, into starships captains. As a result female starship captains were outlawed under penalty of heckling. Glomulan Sony III and her team of commandos put a stop to Mongukas through vaporising, the Mobile Vulcan Restoration Project cleansed the telepahic field and by 2285 Captain Geordi La Forge's Great Grandmother Probably was commanding the the Saratoga and Spock got everyone to agree to just forget about it.

 

[Tenacity]

This is non-canon but, according to Star Charts, Izar was a Federation colony first settled in 2183

Izar had a indigious intellegent species. But then the federation established a colony there.

Well, pretty much can guess how that usually goes.

 

[Pauln6]

Mongukas of Glastene IX had been putting the psychotic mentallic destabiliser feminade into the local Federation regional telepathic field which basically did a lot of nothing except turn female starships captains crazy, or as Senator Vok described, into starships captains. As a result female starship captains were outlawed under penalty of heckling. Glomulan Sony III and her team of commandos put a stop to Mongukas through vaporising, the Mobile Vulcan Restoration Project cleansed the telepahic field and by 2285 Captain Geordi La Forge's Great Grandmother Probably was commanding the the Saratoga and Spock got everyone to agree to just forget about it.

Spoilers! I haven't seen the latest season of Red Dwarf.