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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.