"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.
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Date: 2010-09-17 06:01 pm (UTC)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.