Page from a daily Trek calendar, transcribed below “A human, Janeway is by no means the only female Captain in Starfleet. But it is generally acknowledged that she is among the best-male or female. She embodies all that is exemplary about Starfleet officers: intelligent, thoughtful, perspicacious, sensitive to the feelings of others, tough when she …
Last year, before she and I were co-hosts of Women at Warp, Andi (a.k.a. @FirstTimeTrek on Twitter) and I got together to chat about women in TOS. We hit on episodes like “Mudd’s Women” and “The Enemy Within,” which Andi was seeing for the very first time. We left off near the end of S2 and promised to come back to …
From These Are The Voyages: TOS, Season 1 by Marc Cushman with Susan Osborn: Roddenberry wrote to [Sam] Peeples suggesting many changes and specifically asking that Dehner be portrayed as ‘something less than a ‘swinger,’” that she be “a little overly intelligent and inhibited.” NBC’s Donald Bays wrote to Roddenberry after reading an early script where Gary …
The big news is that I recently launched a podcast called Women at Warp, with co-hosts Andi (@FirstTimeTrek), Grace and Sue. Our website is live at womenatwarp.com and the first episode is available here. In February I joined Cam and Tyler on their podcast Subspace Transmissions to talk about Trek’s worst child characters. Elizabeth has …
I’m a mother of a four-year-old boy. At the time [of writing ‘Final Mission’], my son was a little younger, but still, the idea of that incredible bond and how people create it with their children and with other people’s children was obviously in the forefront of my mind. So I wanted to work with …
Star Trek has some great courtroom drama episodes, and I’d argue “Court Martial” is the first. It starts out when Kirk is accused of an error resulting in the death of an old friend and officer, Benjamin Finney. Commodore Stone, played by African-Canadian actor Percy Rodrigues, orders Kirk to submit to a court martial to determine whether …
On Number One: Gene never got around to fleshing her out, so I made up her back story. I saw her as a genetically bred human from another planet, a place never disclosed. Although she was cloned, I decided that she had grown up in a normal human family kind of atmosphere. She was totally …