Enterprise, when it wasn’t actively sexually harrassing T’pol, 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.

I’m 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.

It’s easy to skip the opening sequence but the gratuitous fetishizing was pretty awful. The whole series would have been better without.

@Scirocco @RizzRustbolt I assume you refer to the original series?

It was the 1960s. The anti-sex second wave of feminism wouldn’t really start to take hold until the 1970s (the first wave won women’s suffrage). One of the slogans of the era was “Peace, Love, and Rock and Roll,” with ‘love’ quite possibly referring to another slogan, “Make Love, Not War.”

We’ve 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 who’s “come a long way, baby?”). So the sensibilities are very different.

In some ways #TOS was ahead of its time—the first interracial kiss on television, for example (I believe #allstartrek was just discussing that episode, if memory serves?)—but from a feminist perspective, those micro-minidress uniforms and James Kirk “getting the girl” 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, it’s not a good look today.