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[meganbmoore]

Just watched the Star Trek reboot-or-whatever-it's-officially-being-called movie.  It was fun when I ignored McCoy and Scottie.  Ok, I mostly just paid attention to Uhura, Spock, Sulu, and sometimes Kirk.  Oh, and Gaila (sp?) but that was kind mostly Rachel Nichols.  And one whole scene.

But I must say, those skirts were even teenier than they looked in the previews.  I swear Zoe Saldana spent half her scenes staring sternly at the cameraman and promising dire retribution if there was a shot up her skirt.  (Also, I've never seen a whole lot of the various Star Trek series, but I seem to remember Star Fleet, uhm, having more women doing things in the random episodes I did see, as opposed to only being girlftriends/probably-dead-soon mothers.)  Also, uhm...I find it weird that, in the future, the only character id-ed as interracial is interspecies, and, uhm, white?
 

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[lady_ganesh]

It is pretty amazing how short the skirts are in...well, both versions, honestly.

The thing that makes me 'on one hand, on the other hand, and on my third hand' about the reboot is that it's a movie, which means it's going to be nothing like the hours upon hours nature of a series. So yeah, women definitely had more stuff to do in original flavor Trek, but maybe not that much more-- Uhura at least translates the distress signal. I wish more backstory had made it in-- Gaila's in particular sounds awesome. But it's definitely more a Kirk and Spock movie than an ensemble one, and I'm still pissed the original Number One wasn't in it or at least namechecked.

[royalarchivist]

"So yeah, women definitely had more stuff to do in original flavor Trek, but maybe not that much more"

And I think this is another reason why ST probably should have closed shop when Roddenberry died. He was able to get not only multiple female characters onto a 1960s sci-fi TV show, but he also got a black female character as part of the bridge crew. (And the first interracial kiss on American TV!)

What's sad is that, for all the advances Star Trek made for getting women and POC into positive roles on TV, it seems like after his death the ST creators decided they were done trying to push the envelope. The diversity of crew in the original ST was amazing 40 years ago but really not enough today.

[lady_ganesh]

Yeah, the problem with Star Trek is the people who took over from Roddenberry decided that they had to do things as Roddenberry did...in 1960. I don't know if you've ever read the articles on the struggles over getting a gay Star Trek character, but Rick Berman has a lot to answer for.

[royalarchivist]

Yes, thank you. That's what I was trying and failing to say. :) I never read those articles but since I can't think of any openly gay characters in ST (admittedly, I have not seen past the first few seasons of Voyager or DS9, and none of Enterprise) I can only imagine how those struggles turned out. :\

At least the Star Trek universe seems more diverse than the Star Wars universe, for what little that is worth.

[lady_ganesh]

Yeah, Salon did an article on it years back and pretty much nothing has changed, unfortunately.

Yes. And especially growing up-- as many people have said-- it meant a lot to see a black woman on the bridge.