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Actress Diora Baird Confirmed as Orion Slave Girl in New Star Trek Movie

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By GustavoLeao / 16:01, 20 September 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

In a new interview to Maxim.com, actress Diora Baird confirmed she is playing an Orion Slave Girl in the new Star Trek movie. Here are few excerpts of the brief interview.

Let's hope you keep things together in the new Star Trek flick. Who are you playing?

I play the green girl. There you have it.

So you're an alien?

Um, I would assume so-unless I was born with a skin disease. In the original series, there were these infamous green women that Captain Kirk would hit on, and so without giving too much away, I'm one of those green girls.

The full interview is here.



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By: The Caretaker (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:29:36 on Sep 21, 2008

And for those who watched the Orion slave girl episode of Star Trek Enterprise, we know the slave girl thing is just the image projected by the Orions.

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By: timmer33 (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:56:44 on Sep 22, 2008

You're messed up, sorry. If anything, VOY and ENT did more to exploit female sexuality than anything in TOS. Those two series made obvious and frequent use of both guest actors as well as main stars in order to attract the male adolescent audience. (Seven, T'Pol, Orion slave girls, etc.)

Seriously, TOS was groundbreaking for its use of women in strong roles as opposed to what you're suggesting.

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By: jimbtnp (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:29:46 on Sep 21, 2008

give me a break

as for this new movie?
high on comnnect-the-dot references and character driven stories

thats not TOS





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By: The Caretaker (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:29:25 on Sep 21, 2008

And for those who watched the Orion slave girl episode of Star Trek Enterprise, we know the slave girl thing is just the image projected by the Orions.

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By: johncarpenterfan (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:25:28 on Sep 21, 2008

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This is the kind of thing I hate about the original series. Lots of sexualizing of women without any strong roles. There were some strong roles, but mostly they were just overly emotional characters either foolishly in love or jealous or power hungry; I suppose that could be said of most 1960s TV. What's lame is that Abrams shows a lack of imagination in relying on such a gimmick. I don't know DS9 used the Dabo girls as a commentary on sexism, but they had Leeta to show it wasn't just about sexuality; I fear Abrams is up to his usual schtick, as when he had the awful Jennifer Garner dress in skimpy clothing constantly to distract from her atrocious acting.

I'm in agreement with Mulfield on this one. Over the enitre history of the franchise, it took waaaay too long for any of the Trek writers to actually develop strong female characters - I'd like to say this would be a HUGE step back if they went this route, but Berman and Brag already did that with Seven of Nine and T'Pol.

BTW, it was in the original pilot, "The Cage" with Captain Pike that we saw the Orion slave girl, NOT Kirk. I think the myth of Kirk "banging green chicks" came from the Eddie Murphy skit in his stand up film "Delirious".

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RE: Orion slave girl? Please! by Muldfeld @ 10:03:57 on Sep 21

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By: cdydatzigs (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:35:14 on Sep 21, 2008

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This is the kind of thing I hate about the original series. Lots of sexualizing of women without any strong roles ... What's lame is that Abrams shows a lack of imagination in relying on such a gimmick.

Orion Slave girls are a part of Star Trek mythos. Abrams choice to use them as characters in this film is hardly a "gimmick" as you accuse. We are seeing a young Kirk in an environment very familiar to TOS viewers and likely a scene that could have happened on the show for all we know.

Are slave girls a depiction of sexism? Of course they are. Eevery major city has its share of strip clubs.. just because people may object to what happens in them, does it mean they don't exist? How naieve are we really?

I can tell you this much. I would rather see a homage to 1960s style sexism, than the REAL gimmick we see today in Hollywood: inserting female characters in sequels or remakes just to make a usual male dominanted cast more "balanced". (See Knight Rider: The Series and Terminator III) -- okay, women are equal to men. We get it...



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By: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 00:00:55 on Sep 21, 2008 | Edit History (1)

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This is the kind of thing I hate about the original series. Lots of sexualizing of women without any strong roles.


We humans are highly sexual beings, so there's nothing inherently wrong with overt sexualization. Rather, it's the cultural power structure which can be objectionable. Abrams can easily avoid that dynamic, with no violation of canon.

For TOS, the 1960s status quo was enforced by TV executives. GR had cast Majel Barrett as the XO ("Number One") in the original pilot, in which female crew wore slacks. It's said that the prominence of a woman among the crew was one of the reasons that first pilot was rejected by NBC. Barrett is quoted as saying, "Gene had wanted very much to show women in a more positive point of view, and women that were stronger, because he said they exist in the world -- but he kind of pulled back."

GR sneaked in female leadership as alien characters, such as T'Pau, Natira, Elaan, and the Romulan Commander.


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