STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION | 4.21
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STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION | 4.21
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โmy body is a templeโ well MY body is the USS enterprise and let me tell you there are some inconceivable situations happening on board
data minds his manners :3
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oh yeah? then explain this
Crikey what happened to Paris between Discovery and Next Gen?
Holodeck settings were turned down to minimum
Reblogging for this amazing comment.
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Thank u star trek for this gift
Best 'Classic' Trek Theme
Nobody gave these songs interesting titles and that's sad. (The theme from TNG IS the theme from TMP don't @ me)
Theme from Star TrekโAlexander Courage (TOS, TAS)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture Main ThemeโJerry Goldsmith (TMP, TNG)
Wrath of Khan: Main ThemeโJames Horner (TWK)
Star Trek VI The Undiscovered CountryโCliff Eidelman (TUC)
Theme from Star Trek: Deep Space NineโDennis McCarthy (DS9)
Star Trek: Voyager - Main TitleโJerry Goldsmith (VOY)
Star Trek First Contact Main TitleโJerry Goldsmith (First Contact)
Star Trek: InsurrectionโJerry Goldsmith (The one with the guy with the face)
Where My Heart Will Take Me/Faith of the HeartโRussell Watson (Patch Adams, ENT)
Otherโput in tags (Because someone somewhere likes Leonard Rosenman's work)
Voyager has the best theme overall, I think. TWOK is the best movie theme and I've watched TWOK so many times it feels weird not hearing it in the other movies. I know there's only room for 10 choices but it still seems weird to me to not have DS9 be one of them. DS9's theme was great until they ruined it by adding that constant high pitched undertone through literally the whole thing for no good reason.
You ever invite your coworker to watch you give birth just to spite a racist
Okay howmst the fuck has a ship doctor in the far future never handled a birth without the father present? Are sperm donors and gay couples and trans women no longer a thing in the bajillionth century CE?? :/
I while understand the frustration with erasure sometimes it helps to look at things through the cultural context of when something was made. Star Trek the Next Generation was made in 1987, this particular episode I believe aired in 1988 a time when a future where the husband was always present for the birth would have been amazing to many of the people watching the show as men had only been allowed to be present for the birth of their children for 10/15ish years at that point in the US.
Women (and many men) fought for decades with hospitals to even have men allowed in the delivery room during the early stages of labor, which can last for several hours, and hospitals only began to give in to their requests in the 1960s but even then they would be kicked out of the room by hospital staff before the actual birth took place. So many of the couples watching the show would have had to go through labor without having/being allowed to support their spouse regardless of their wishes. Having the childโs father present for the birth only began to happen in the 1970s and 1980s. Which means most people watching this show either went through birth without the support of their spouse, were not allowed to support their spouse during the birth of their child, or their own motherโs went through that during their birth.
A future where the husbands were always present for the birth was still a little crazy to consider in the late 1980s. A good kind of crazy for the people living in that time, it showed a future where the wishes of the couple were finally consistently listened to by medical professionals as a result of the actions of people during their or their parentโs lifetimes. And it does that by also subverting it in allowing Data to step into the role of the father when the father was unknown and/or unwilling/unable to fill that role (Iโll be honest my knowledge of Next Gen is a bit spotty and I have not seen this whole episode, just a piece of it at family Thanksgiving). The womanโs desires as to how she would give birth are listened to and respected, something that still doesnโt happen in many hospitals now and would have been seen as even more revolutionary then. So while it isnโt perfect I think this scene was actually fairly impressive for its time and cultural context and shows a future that many people of that time would have seen as ideal.
I think this kind of contextual understanding and analysis is really important because things that look antiquated now were revolutionary then. I remember reading that the mini skirts in Star Trek TOS were legot just in fashion (about 64โ ish), one of the actresses (the one that played Rand) requested they be in the show and both her and Nichelle Nichols said they didnโt see them as demeaning but liberating in that time and context. Where as NOW it looks like โsexy male gazeโ but then it wasnโt.
Miniskirts are comfortable and easy to move in - unlike longer bulkier skirts, which had previously been required forย โmodesty.โ And unlike the approach ofย โweโll just put them in pants,โ miniskirts made a statement that women crew-members werenโt being treated like men. Miniskirts were a way to sayย โI can be an attractive woman, wear comfortable clothes, and still look professional and do a serious job.โย
The clothing for that message today would be different.ย
This is also why the bridge crew of TOS may seem โtokenisticโ today. When it came out, the Cold War was in full swing and โSovietsโ were maligned and hated, Black people could not count on their right to vote being honored, and mixed-race people (like Spock) were called horrible things like โhalf-breedโ and โzebra.โ A white man was in charge of the ship, but Gene Roddenberry was fully aware that a chunk of the viewership read him as queer, and did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DISCOURAGE THAT READING, at a time when โhomosexual activityโ was illegal in the United States!
By todayโs standards, โone of everything? How tokenistic.โ In 1966? โA Black woman, a Russian, a man from multiple cultures, and a man who loves differently, all top of their fields, all working together and finding common ground to learn, grow, and help where they can? What a wonderful future!โ
Also Iโm sorry but like. A show also featuring a Japanese man who isnโt a stereotype but part of the crew, having a Scottish character be a part of the central cast (idk if I need to get into why this is important, but considering how England has continuously tried to erase Scottish culture and identity, and the stereotype of Scots as bumbling bumpkins, etc, its kind of nice to see a Scotsman whoโs the best of the best at his job).
Moreover, a lot of kids watched this show. MLK himself contacted Nichelle Nichols and asked her to stay on the show when she was considering leaving, because โyou donโt have a Black role, you have an equal role,โ and there wasnt many Black role models on tv. I can only imagine how Black kids, Asian kids, and mixed race or mixed culture kids felt seeing people like them on tv. Hell, seeing Uhura on screen is what inspired Whoopi Goldberg as a little girl.
Also, yeah, its easy to look back and say โdamn, fathers werenโt there in the delivery room? What assholesโ but no like they legitimately were not allowed in there.
Tiny correction: while George Takei is Japanese, and while Sulu thus looks like what we in the 20th-21st century consider to be an ethnically Japanese man, Hikaru Sulu was Pan-Asian by design. His last name is not Japanese. And Roddenberry designed him like that intentionally, because while there was a lot of anti-Japanese sentiment in the US at the time (I mean, hellโฆ George Takei himself spent years in Japanese internment camps during WW2), there was also a lot of other anti-Asian sentiments, and Roddenberry intentionally put ALL of it on the character of Sulu.
Like, all the years of anti-Chinese racism in the US? Sulu. Anti-Japanese sentiments left over after WW2? Sulu. Korean War in 1950-52? Sulu. The Vietnam War, with Johnson in 1965 (a year before TOS started airing) choosing to start sending American troops into the conflict? Sulu.
Sulu was Roddenberryโs desperate attempt to show all Asian people as inherently worthy, inherently human, and yeah, he probably put kind of too much on Suluโs shoulders, but it was the 1960s and Roddenberry fucking cared about representation, so he did what he could.
Just, you knowโฆ a little bit more historical Star Trek context
Also to hammer this home?
Scotty was third in line for the captainโs chair. The only non-Kirk who had the con more then him was Spock.
He was smart, he was a *ranked* crewmen, he was a gentleman, he wasnโt a skirt chaser, and he was capitol L loyal. The only time he got into a fight was when someone both went after his Captain, AND his Ship.
And he was Scottish.ย
Thatโs so above and beyond the typical Scottish stereotype even TO THIS DAY.
Dr Polaski was coded as something of an arse just so they could make their valid points about equality and bigotry using her as a foil. Yes it was kind of clumsy from a modern perspective, but it was also kind of groundbreaking (not least because you didnโt usually get arses being played by women)
I am hard-coded to put this on any post that mentions MLK and Nichelle Nichols.
Also, itโs very worth noting that the โtoken minority characterโ label doesnโt apply in any way to these characters.
Tokens are there to present the appearance of diversity. Whereas Roddenberry created a diverse cast in an era where there wasnโt even a need for the appearance of diversity. Roddenberry didnโt put these characters in because he wanted to look diverseโ he put them in to BE DIVERSE.
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Christopher Pike & Una Chin-Riley in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022-) | part one two
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast behind the scenes as their episode 1x08 โThe Elysian Kingdomโ storybook counterparts
Christopher Pike as Sir Amand Rauth, the Kingโs Chamberlain Spock as Pollux the Dark Wizard Christine Chapel as Lady Audrey Nyota Uhura as Queen Neve Erica Ortegas as Sir Adya the Knight Jenna Mitchell as The Crimson Guard Una Chin-Riley (โNumber Oneโ) as Z'ymira the Huntress Hemmer as Caster the Wizard Joseph M'Benga as King Ridley La'an Noonien-Singh as Princess Thalia (with Runa the Dog)
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