RE: Explaining the "No Female Captains" thing. | Report this post to moderator
By: MaxPower (Odo's file, contact) @ 03:02:41 on Jul 25, 2004

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Really? Seems like we had 7 years of one, her name being Captain Kathryn Janeway. Yet so many who post here have called her what? All SORTS of ugly names. "Psychotic", "barbaric", "incompetent", "ugly bitch", and worse.

No. Trek doesn't need any more "female" Captains. That one was enough to know that THIS group in Human society isn't ready for one.

We've come a long way baby but we STILL have a long way to go

Maybe I had a brain freeze, but I guess I'm not quite getting your point there.

I said I of course have no problem with a female captain in ENT. In fact I like the idea and I really don't care about any contiinuity "violation" of Turnabout intruder . I also like Capt. Janeway, and for the most part I liked VOY.

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No. We need to START with Humanity. And better, we need to start with THIS website.

That's a good thought but sexism in starfleet just doesn't fit into the Star Trek future.

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It was WRITTEN by him MaxPower. Which is why in that spacebeluga thread that I posted a link to below, I argued that it was his "up you" to NBC.

Well, story by Roddenberry, teleplay by Arthur H. Singer. But whatever, my point is just what I said, it contradicts Star Treks ideals. Whatever Gene's reasons for this, it is still true.

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And EVERYTHING presented in this episode as a statement of "fact", whether "medical" or "psychological" - everything "scientific" and thus based on hardcore "provable" information, indicated that NO SUCH SWITCH OCCURED.

I'm sorry but I don't understand what you are saying there.

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And it's a shame because all the exaggerated Shatner acting going on here, that this whole message is missed and that people just chalk it up as "She was psychotic" and other nonsense that women are usually called.

Well really, isn't she pretty wacky before the transfer?

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It wasn't "rushed". According to Shatner's commentary, it was known well in advance that the show was over and when they would conclude filming, to the point where they had a wrap party all planned.

Rushed was the wrong word. I guess I meant maybe Gene wanted to do this type of story and didn't have enough time so he had to make it the way he did, which was to contradict the Star Trek utopia. Sheesh it was just a theory ;-)

Anyway, to sum up: A female Captain on Enterprise is fine by me. Any continuity issues here are non-issues IMHO.

But I see what you are saying about Gene saying "F**k you" to NBC. Perhaps ENT having a female captain is an odd circle of life kind of "F**k you" to NBC LOL.

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