Star Trek and the Bechdel-Wallace Test
While I’m watching all these Star Trek episodes, I thought why not run them through the Bechdel-Wallace test?
“The Conscience of the King” – TOS 1X12
Kirk is on a colony planet, taking in a production of Macbeth with Doctor Thomas Leighton, who is convinced the lead actor, Anton Karidien, is a former brutal dictator called Kodos the Executioner. Kirk says Kodos is dead, but if Leighton’s right, it would be a big deal because Kodos killed 4,000 people. Only nine …
“Miri” TOS 1X10
The Enterprise has just detected an Earth-style distress signal but they’re hundreds of light-years from Earth. The guys work intensely, hunched over their consoles. Yeoman Janice Rand stands in the background with her portable tricorder over shoulder. If her job is just to stand there while shit’s going down, what does she do on slow …
“What Are Little Girls Made Of?” TOS 1X09
The Enterprise arrive at the planet Exo III to find a scientist, Dr. Roger Korby, who hasn’t been heard from in five years. Turns out he’s also Nurse Chapel’s fiance. Kirk and Spock don’t think he’s alive because two previous expeditions found no trace of him. They must not have been looking very hard, though, …
Video: The Women of Star Trek
A segment from Entertainment Tonight, January 4, 1993, called “The Women of Star Trek.” Hosted by Majel Barrett Roddenberry.
Quote: “Past Tense”
People are still even writing that we only presented ‘one side’ in “Past Tense” and that we should have presented ‘both sides’ and not just the ‘liberal’ point of view – and I’m still trying to think what that means. In other words, we should have showed the positive aspects of putting the homeless into …