Comments | karma_aster: The real question is, why did it take me 20 years to wonder about it?

karma_aster

The real question is, why did it take me 20 years to wonder about it?

Mar 23, 2012 19:19

So, watching the TNG episode The Perfect Mate earlier, and it suddenly hits me...

Why didn't they just find a Federation ship with an all-female crew or at least one where the majority of the crew is female ( Read more... )

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lyssie March 23 2012, 23:39:06 UTC

Possibly because at that stage, we were all still at the point where the concept of an all-female crew meant, like, shittily written Matriarchal Societies, and men being sex slaves.

karma_aster March 24 2012, 00:07:44 UTC

Well, y'know...us silly women can't possibly be left to our own devices without benevolent male guidence! Because our silly female brains would get CONFUSED and mess it all up!

Tee hee! (looks vacant and twirls hair)

lyssie March 24 2012, 00:13:38 UTC

To be fair, I'm pretty sure that's what the ST writers generally assumed about women (though they must have had some idea that wasn't right, as they tried on occasion to break out of that mold).

Or maybe that's not fair. idek.

I'm probably too distracted at the prospect of Famke Janssen crushing on someone like Shelby (even if she was annoying).

karma_aster March 24 2012, 02:49:24 UTC

You know, I'd've been all for Kamala telling Picard that he was a nice person, but she was really far more interested in Dr. Crusher.

And yes, a lot of televised SF has some real issues with Women in Charge or stories that focus almost entirely on female characters and aren't about who she's sleeping with.

jim_smith March 25 2012, 22:28:17 UTC

Even if the Enterprise crew in this episode was, say, 70% female, you'd still run into the same problems. Kamala only interacted with maybe a dozen guys on a ship with a thousand people on board. And anyway, Starfleet guys know how to keep it in their pants, as Riker and Worf demonstrated (to their regret).

The real question is "why was the Enterprise escorting a sexual metamorph alien on the same day that they picked up a couple of Ferengi and a bunch of scuzzy space miners or whatever?" And the answer is "they weren't properly briefed on Kamala's powers before they took her aboard, and there's no other ships in the area."

Actually I guess the real question is "who wrote this dogshit episode?"