When the Skrreeans arrive on Deep Space Nine, Kira is having a majorly bad day (Majorly bad day, get it?). The Bajoran Ministers are driving her up the wall, she’s late delivering her duty roster to Sisko, and now Quark is complaining the Bajoran musician she brought in is mesmerizing his customers away from drinking and …
I’m super excited for this review, not only because it’s an episode I truly love, but also because it’s my 100th episode review here at Trekkie Feminist! “Blood Oath” is an incredible episode about a young woman who is underestimated by three older men, all battle-hardened warriors. However, she persists and uses her physical strength, …
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 …
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 …
Made two new custom Funko Pop Vinyl figurines – L’il Kira and L’il Kai Winn. They are joining the shelf next to my Janeway and Borg Queen. In case you’re curious about making your own custom Funkos, I used blank bases produced by the company. The only downside is that they all have the same …
For the purposes of this review I’m going to pretend I haven’t seen any other episodes with Shakaar, so I don’t get cranky (not a big Shakaar fan here). “Shakaar” is the episode where Kira decides to move on from Bareil’s death and open her heart to Shakaar, but it’s not an episode about either …
Over the past couple of weeks I and a couple other Tumblr users have shared some examples of the misogynist, racist, and homophobic comments being posted on the official StarTrek.com Facebook page Here’s a sampling of some of what’s happening on the page just today, with comments on yet another “Describe (character) in one word” post. In this case, my …