Star Trek: Discovery S3E12 “There Is A Tide…”
I haven’t actually watched the new show or anything (no untagged spoilers in this thread, please), but this is the general vibe that I get from reading comments from people who have.
Star Trek: Discovery S3E12 “There Is A Tide…”
I haven’t actually watched the new show or anything (no untagged spoilers in this thread, please), but this is the general vibe that I get from reading comments from people who have.
The doctor is a character joke and Vance is the exception that proves the rule. Current Star Trek is not an egalitarian future, it’s a philosophical mess. I’m saying it’s doesn’t take sense to over represent women in leadership of a naval academy.
They aren’t over-represented, you’re gerrymandering - purposefully drawing lines so that women fall inside your tally, and men don’t. If we simply do an objective headcount of the recurring Starfleet officers in the show so far, I get 4 women and 3 men. As even a count as you can get without cutting someone in two, or adding a redundant character.
And The Doctor is a goddamn treasure.
In leadership positions, the large majority are women, in a naval academy. That stretches the bounds of plausibility relative to reality, making the choice to do so suspect. Maybe I simply need a different grounding in reality in my scifi than you do.
OK, like I said, you don’t believe in Star Trek’s egalitarian future. You could have just agreed up front that you don’t like girls in Star Trek, then.