When Star Trek Gets It Wrong: The Lesson of "Code of Honor"
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- Опубліковано 26 бер 2024
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I remember the DS9 episode "Rejoined" when Dax was conflicted over her ex. Kira asked "why can't they just get married again?", with no regard for the fact that they were 2 women. I remember that being SO progressive!
The assault on Yeoman Rand is even harsher in hindsight when you consider that it happened to Grace Lee Whitney in real life.
One silver lining of Profit and Lace is that Quark's change is handled on a drop-in basis, offscreen. Given Rick Berman's refusal to acknowledge the existence of queer people in Star Trek except as a joke, this was definitely not the intent, but it does nevertheless imply that humanity's utopian future is one where barriers to medical care for trans people are so nonexistent that it can all be handled in the space of an ad break.
Unconscious biases are like walking around with parsley in your teeth.
Janeway is (and always been) a role model for me, wildly inconsistent writing (and differing magnitude of character flaws) aside. Taken on the whole, she gives me something to aspire to as a woman, as a working professional in a male-dominated field, as a human in general. She's the captain I'd most like to serve under or at the very least be friends with. More than once, an imagined pep talk from her in my head has helped me through a few mental and emotional slumps.
The two saving graces with Profit & Lace are that it was clearly intended as a riff on Tootsie, and that it implies that gender confirmation is a totally reversible outpatient surgery that a general practice doctor can knock out on his lunch break, as if lancing a boil.
Let's not forget the late great Madge Sinclair, who, as her role as the captain of USS Saratoga in 'the one with the whales', fully retconned the Turnabout Intruder error of women couldn't captain a starship.
Another day, another Shives video that once again reaffirms how much of a role model he is.
statistics about rape actually show that victims are more likely to be too afraid to report it then to lie about it, and i can't blame them.....as a man, i can only imagine how terrifying it is to be a victim of that crime
I'm Team Kira Nerys, all the way! I just went to IMDB to confirm I was spelling her name correctly and, oh my... I was reminded of how amazing that cast was. So many great characters portrayed by equally great people.
I want to love people bitching about modern Star Trek being woke, but then I realise those are the same people who back in the day would have flipped their fucking shit over Uhura kissing Kirk.
As someone who, for a long time, had a childhood dream of becoming an archaeologist, I think it’s really cool that you can trace the history of American progressivism through 6 decades of a silly sci-fi show.
I will at least say in Profit and Lace's defense that it's actually unfathomably based that the Federation offers free, out-patient gender confirmation procedures no questions asked. That one part of Profit and Lace was actually really cool
I love captain Janeway, my beef is with her writers.
The ICE plot in PIcard S2 was absolutely underused. But the funny thing is that just by showing the reality of Ice on the USA-Mexico border got the anti-immigration mob so riled up.
I was a 13 y.o. "liberated" girl in 1968 when I watched "Turnabout Intruder." I considered Janice Lester to be nuts. I never considered that women couldn't be captains of starships. She was obsessed, jealous, and determined to punish Kirk for dumping her. The reason she couldn't become an officer in Starfleet is because she flunked the tests! When Kirk does say something about women not becoming captains, I figured he was just humoring her. That's the way I saw it back then, anyway.
You said favourite female character but im gonna have to go with the whole of DS9 for that, so many great female characters like Kira, Jadzia, Ezri, Ishka, Kai Winn, Grilka, Kasidy etc, even a more traditional female character like Leeta is written well. Its such a breath of fresh air from TNG’s limited portrayal of its female characters (mainly troi).
La' ann (Christina Chong) is such a badass!! Love her!
I straight up never saw the original episode and only experienced it via your review recently. When my sister started showing me TNG, she was literally like "Yeah, we're skipping this one. You're welcome." and so I've never seen it lol
One character I would really like to see again is Gillian Tsylor. Not only did she see through Kirk, then eventually help him out; she proved to be strong and committed to her cause of finding a better place for the whales to live.