Star Trek - did you know?

billvon said:
I get a kick about people complaining that Star Trek is now "woke," not like the good ol days. Which I found funny. Even the original series and the next generation had interracial kissing, commentary on race wars, transgender characters, nonbinary characters etc. Which, of course, was back in the "good old days."
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But they did have a good old Southern gentleman racist in Dr McCoy, always attacking Spock for being a “breed” and so on.
 
billvon said:
I get a kick about people complaining that Star Trek is now "woke," not like the good ol days. Which I found funny. Even the original series and the next generation had interracial kissing, commentary on race wars, transgender characters, nonbinary characters etc. Which, of course, was back in the "good old days."
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Yeah, and with each successive series they took their "exploration" even further. I remember an episode of TNG in which Dr Crusher was in love with some shape-shifting alien life form that was just a blob or something, but it seemed male. In the third act, it assumed a new form--that of a human woman! I wonder if the Parental Television Council and related groups took note of this, or if they were just completely baffled by all the crazy scientificamal concepts and such.
 
DaveC426913 said:
I imagine those kind of people just assumed it was campy scifi and didn't bother to really engage with the show or community.
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It's funny that we still perceive the original series as somewhat "campy". But it was 1967-1968, pretty much everything was that way!

Compare soft Machine and Pink Floyd in 1967 and in 1969:
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I got the music out, I had played previously and remember being confronted with a bunch of jazz chords, beautiful!
What did I expect? Late 1960s when music was great, great in the pop charts, great in the jazz clubs and brilliant film, TV and advert scores.
 
TheVat said:
"UFO" got it right - fishnet shirts ARE the future!
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I think I read somewhere they were Sylvia Anderson's idea. They tried to give UFO some sex appeal
with the girls with purple wigs and catsuits on Moonbase (which certainly worked for me as a 16yr. old, Gabrielle Drake q.v.) and Sylvia was adamant there should be something equivalent to appeal to female viewers. Hence the fishnet shorts encasing hunky torsos.

Anouska Hempel was also in it, looking very 60s/70s and spaced out (haha):
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P.S. Sorry, shirts, fishnet shirts. Fishnet shorts would be something else!
 
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exchemist said:
I think I read somewhere they were Sylvia Anderson's idea. They tried to give UFO some sex appeal
with the girls with purple wigs and catsuits on Moonbase (which certainly worked for me as a 16yr. old, Gabrielle Drake q.v.) and Sylvia was adamant there should be something equivalent to appeal to female viewers. Hence the fishnet shorts encasing hunky torsos.

Anouska Hempel was also in it, looking very 60s/70s and spaced out (haha):
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Susannah York -ish
 
Pinball1970 said:
Susannah York -ish
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Yes, a bit. A lot of girls had that kind of look in that epoch: kind of sexy but a bit dopey and doll-like.

I was more drawn to the actresses who radiated fun and/or intelligence. Does anyone remember Hannah Gordon, the Scot, who was much the same age? She was definitely "Thinking Man's Crumpet", in the idiom of the time.
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exchemist said:
Yes, a bit. A lot of girls had that kind of look in that epoch: kind of sexy but a bit dopey and doll-like.

I was more drawn to the actresses who radiated fun and/or intelligence. Does anyone remember Hannah Gordon, the Scot, who was much the same age? She was definitely "Thinking Man's Crumpet", in the idiom of the time.
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She would have made a great Trecky tier two actress, perhaps one of Kirks past loves? A liaison in the T24 star system but he bumps into her in the T25 system.
Awkward.
 
billvon said:
get a kick about people complaining that Star Trek is now "woke," not like the good ol days. Which I found funny. Even the original series and the next generation had interracial kissing, commentary on race wars, transgender characters, nonbinary characters etc. Which, of course, was back in the "good old days."
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Trek also predicted people taking power with a parasitic brain worm, i.e. RFK Jr, in ST II: the Wrath of Khan.


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