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Guinan and Ro talk in Ten Forward

My Top 10 Feminist Star Trek: TNG Episodes

by trekkiefeminist

Inspired by a fabulous discussion on lady-centric episodes with the ussfeministkilljoy crew, here are my Top 10 Feminist TNG Episodes. In order to help narrow it down I limited myself to episodes that pass the Bechdel-Wallace Test (for full TNG Bechdel-Wallace results click here). Other than that, I was looking for episodes where we see strong, complex …

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Quote: Naren Shankar on “Face of the Enemy”

by trekkiefeminist

We talked a lot about whether the character of the Romulan commander [in TNG’s “Face of the Enemy”] would be a man or a woman. We finally decided on a woman, but we had also talked about there being a bit of a feel of Hunt for Red October in the show. When I was …

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Troi as Rakal

“Face of the Enemy” – TNG 6X14

by trekkiefeminist

“Face of the Enemy” is one of the most concrete examples of the ways Troi’s character expands and becomes so much more awesome in the last few seasons of the show. It’s an episode where the main conflict is between two strong, complex women characters, and it’s not over a man!  It’s also just a …

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Shot of Archer, Trip and T'Pol in alien station hall

Top Trek Episodes Directed by Women

by trekkiefeminist

Out of 694 episodes of Star Trek (not including The Animated Series), only 35 have been directed by women (8 in TNG, 7 in DS9, 10 in VOY and 10 in ENT – graphs here!). However, of the episodes brought to us by the 6 women who directed episodes, many have been outstanding. Here are my …

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