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From: liam@valentijn.nu
Op 27-6-2017 om 20:30 schreef anim8rfsk:
> In article <59529e91$0$783$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
> Wouter Valentijn wrote:
>
>> Op 27-6-2017 om 15:45 schreef The Last Doctor:
>>> Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>> starfist@gmail.invalid wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:21:41 -0400, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>>>> liam@valentijn.nu wrote:
>>>>>>> Op 26-6-2017 om 19:46 schreef Ubiquitous:
>>>>>>>> starfist@gmail.invalid wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I wonder if the reason women are forbidden to command a starship in
>>>>>>>>> Krik's era has anything to do with the disaster that is brewing for
>>>>>>>>> this series.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Didn't we learn anything from Voyager?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Voyager had issues orbiting issues. The gender of Janeway was not part
>>>>>>> of that. It was the writers. They failed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If memory serves, they made a big deal about having a female captain
>>>>>
>>>>> The PR push was annoying, but they didn't have to upend anything to
>>>>> write the character. At least the timeline worked. Kirk says that
>>>>> women are forbidden to captain a sharship 10 years after Discover
>>>>> takes place. Not a problem for Voyager.
>>>>
>>>> But that wasn't the point. the point is they made a big deal about finally
>>>> having a female Captain and she was a miserable failure, proving the point
>>>> of
>>>> them not allowing female captains.
>>>>
>>>
>>> They'd had female captains before though - Uhura even had the conn of the
>>> Enterprise in a TAS episode. The captain of the Saratoga in STIV, the
>>> captain of the Enterprise C - even Troi managed not to make a total pigs
>>> ear of it the one time she got command. Alongside Voyager, Dax was known to
>>> command the Defiant...
>>>
>>> ...and of course, Janice Lester's outburst was then retconned away in
>>> Enterprise. If Earth ships in Archer's time could have female captains,
>>> surely the touchy-feely Federation
>>> that followed it wouldn't go backwards in this regard. We just didn't
>>> happen to see one onscreen in TOS, Lester was 17 bananas short of a bunch
>>> and Kirk was just humouring her.
>>>
>>
>> Totally outside of official canon the web series Star Trek Continues had
>> an episode about this, guest starring Clare Kramer.
>
> As Glory!!!
>
Now that would make one fine story! :-P
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Wouter Valentijn www.j3v.net
"Be yourself no matter what they say"
Sting ("Englishman in New York")
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