I need backup for this one . Like, remember “The Perfect Mate”? How it’s got serious issues, but at least Crusher is there to call out Jean-Luc and raise important questions about power, choice and consent? “Bound” doesn’t have that! T’Pol is the closest thing we get to a voice of reason and ethics and it’s …
Time to share some more great things I’ve been reading that I thought you might be interested in! “Star Trek Sex Change: Comic Flips Entire Crew’s Genders” by Alison Flood at The Guardian Super exciting to actually be quoted in this article! “Star Wars and the 4 Ways Science Fiction Handles Race” by Noah Berlatsky …
Great interview with George Takei on Democracy Now!, where he describes his family’s experience in a Japanese internment camp and talks about how that shaped his view of democracy and the need for activism.
Happy Birthday, Chase Masterson (February 26)! Chase Masterson made an indelible mark on the Trek world with her portrayal of Leeta on Deep Space Nine. Over the course of the show we got to see Leeta as a character who was sexy, but importantly, had control over her sexuality and used it to her advantage (check …
Bechdel Testing Deep Space Nine was more complicated than The Original Series. Not only were there more episodes and more female characters, but there were also many episodes where two women (usually Kira and Dax) had back-to-back lines in a group scene but it wasn’t always clear whether this was enough to say they were definitively …
Celia Lovsky, who played the character of T’Pau in “Amok Time”, was born on February 21, 1897, one of only 11 credited Trek guest stars born in the 19th century. In “Amok Time”, T’Pau has a level of status and respect that was very rare for women characters in TOS. Through mentions in TNG and …
Recently I’d been following feminist discussion about a depiction of rape in this season of Downton Abbey. In her must-read article at The American Prospect, the fabulous Jaclyn Friedman did a great job of explaining what was wrong with Downton – not the decision to depict sexual assault in the first place, but the creators’ decision …