>>Hi, I am brand-new to this group, but I felt I had to jump right into
>>this conversation with an anecdote.
>>When I was a kid, I used to try play "Star Trek" with friends on the
>>back porch. The problem was, if there was more than one girl playing,
>>we'd have to fight over who got to be Lt. Uhuru.
>>I was gleeful in one episode where a Lt. Tracy was introduced, but she
>>and Dr. McCoy were reduced to cubes (supposedly all of the water content
>>was taken out) by some alien villain, who crushed one of them. Of
>>course, it was Lt. Tracy that would not return to life. How scarring!
>
>Ah, anytime you'd see a new character beam down to the planet in the
>company of the regulars, you just knew they were cannon fodder and that was
>the last time you'd be seeing them until the reruns....
>
>>In the world of mainstream entertainment, I have never seen a show that
>>explored gender roles and cultural difference so sensitively.
>
>It's definitely gotten better with each new verision, IMHO. 'The New
>Generation' was still fairly limited as far as the regular female
>characters went (boy-toy Troy or the caring surgeon mother figure were the
>options I remember once the cool security chief got killed off), but
>dropped more women in competent background roles. And then there's Dax and
>Kira in the next offering .... they don't need to wear dresses, AND they're
>taken seriously!
>
>Progress is being made. Thank ye gods and little fishes.
>
>meg
Meg,
And now, in Voyager, there's Captain Janeway, who's taken very
seriously.
-Sean
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