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Enterprise, when it wasnāt actively sexually harrassing Tāpol, was great.
The problem is, the episodes where B&B are using Jolene Blalock as a sounding board for their fetishes are so bad, that it drags down the series as a whole.
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when it wasnāt actively sexually harrassing Tāpol
I never understood that need. Tāpol was already fiercely exotic, what with her flawless face and remote Vulcan disdain. They could have put her into a spacesuit for the entire series and she would have still been attractive AF purely due to her personality and strength of character. About the only improvement I would have liked to see is more of her character arc being in conflict with her Vulcan upbringing, particularly in trying to deal with those infuriatingly irrational humans, and her emotional entanglement with Trip.
Iām not a huge trek nerd, but recently watched the whole series, and the two main irritations were the blatant/unnecessary/annoying/offensive sexualization, and the theme song.
Itās easy to skip the opening sequence but the gratuitous fetishizing was pretty awful. The whole series would have been better without.
David Benfell, Ph.D. (he/him/his)@Scirocco @RizzRustbolt I assume you refer to the original series?
It was the 1960s. The anti-sex second wave of feminism wouldnāt really start to take hold until the 1970s (the first wave won womenās suffrage). One of the slogans of the era was āPeace, Love, and Rock and Roll,ā with āloveā quite possibly referring to another slogan, āMake Love, Not War.ā
Weāve been in a backlash to the anti-war, liberation, and counterculture movements of this era ever since. Neoconservatism was *born* with this backlash (you wanna talk about whoās ācome a long way, baby?ā). So the sensibilities are very different.
In some ways #TOS was ahead of its timeāthe first interracial kiss on television, for example (I believe #allstartrek was just discussing that episode, if memory serves?)ābut from a feminist perspective, those micro-minidress uniforms and James Kirk āgetting the girlā each and every episode (well, almost every episode, anyway), the series does seem incredibly dated, chauvinistic, and patriarchal. Between that and the cheesy special effects, which were actually great for their day, itās not a good look today.
Kevin C š¬@benfell @Scirocco @RizzRustbolt
As far as exploiting the actor's physical attractiveness, all I ask for in #StarTrek these days is parity. At least #StarTrekEnterprise and #StarTrekTOS series had Trip (Malcolm and Mayweather?) and Kirk shirtless and in tight body hugging shorts a bunch of times.
#StarTrekTNG and #StarTrekVoyager tho, they were just throwing Marina Sirtis and Jerry Ryan at you (not that I'm complaining). š¤·āāļø
@kcarr2015 @Scirocco @RizzRustbolt Parity was definitely not a thing then. Much as I loved #TOS in my somewhat younger days, when it was the only #StarTrek, I donāt think I could even watch most of the episodes now. City on the Edge of Forever maybe.
ManabiThe scenes in the isolation chamber in underwear applying gel to each other were totally unnecessary and unpleasant to watch, especially nowadays. They have aged very poorly.
They were the reason I stopped watching when it first aired. Iām glad society is catching on.
The scenes in the isolation chamber in underwear applying gel to each other were totally unnecessary
I thought so at the time but later realized that was a key scene of the whole entire show. You missed a lot of the nuance. That was where Tāpol developed her crush on Trip. Her crush on Trip was the only reason she became the first Vulcan to be able to stay aboard a human ship for longer than a few weeks. And Tāpolās presence on the ship advising Archer was what made Archer so successful in laying the groundwork of the entire federation.