Post #2697033
2026-03-01 19:12 UTC
@semanticist@mastodon.social, @xris@ecoevo.social, @johnofrobotz@mastodon.girolab.foo –
Really? I had the impression the underarms of every officer in uniform were unshaven.
(And Crusher applies "colour" to her face, some male staff have unremarkably exposed legs on duty, "Ensign Jae" had traditionally masculine hair, and Worf "looks good in a dress.")
My point, anyway, is that the category of what should be considered "Star Trek" should presumably include the thoughts of its originator?
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@semanticist@mastodon.social 2026-03-01 20:09
@Starfia@mastodon.social Maybe, but the thoughts of its creator also included making the working environment so uncomfortable for women that two of them left and only came back after he was forced out of the production. But maybe the real point is that ‘it’s not real Star Trek’ is the mating call of arseholes who want things to not even evoke what a TV show used to be decades ago but to evoke what their own biases cause them to misremember what it was like.