Today I am joined for this review by my fabulous feminist friend, Lucia Lorenzi! You can read her writing at Rabble.ca and her own blog, https://lucialorenzi.wordpress.com/, and follow her on Twitter @empathywarrior. Her comments are in bold. One day a bunch of Star Trek: Voyager writers were sitting around trying to think of a story. Writer 1: I know! …
The fabulous Anne Thériault joins me for another evening of feminist Trek commentary. As with our last reviews (“Justice” and “Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night”), her comments are in bold. We begin in the holosuite, where Bashir and O’Brien are trying to convince Vic to come hang out in the Alamo program. Vic’s not sure whether he’d look good …
Nana Visitor was interviewed recently on the Trek Geeks podcast. Here are a couple of noteworthy quotes: The [storyline] that I liked least, and it was the most useful to me in real life, was my pregnancy and giving the baby up. I liked it least because I so wanted it to be mined for …
Good news: Anne Thériault agreed to watch more Star Trek with me! After a night of watching a heavy DS9 episode, we decided to lighten it up with a Wesley Crusher fest, starting with the infamous “Justice.” Again, her comments are in bold. The entire episode is so bad it’s amazing, starting with the first scene, where everyone’s excited …
I have a very cool house guest this week – none other than the fabulous feminist writer and activist Anne Thériault, creator of thebellejar.ca, who has also written for The Daily Dot, VICE, The Toast, and more! And bonus points for liking cats and Star Trek! Anne is a fan of TNG and DS9 so we sat …
Thanks to angrygoblingirl on Tumblr for suggesting I review this episode. It’s one I don’t think I’d watched since it first aired, and I’m interested to see how I feel about it 17 years later. What does it say about relationships, sex and consent? I know B’Elanna gets to be tough in this episode, but does she …
Nichelle Nichols: I was one of the first black women in the country, more years ago than I care to remember, who wore an afro ‘outside,’ in public. This was way before Star Trek. I wore one of the biggest afros in New York, but I wore it with Dior and Chanel suits. One of …