The one where they auction off T’Pol was rough, but I tapped out (even as a horny 16 year old, mind you) at the episode where the villains were literally women in bikinis painted green. It’s great and all that Orions are a matriarchal society of hot space pirates (who doesn’t love that) but for fuck’s sake that episode was just the worst kind of patronizingly objectifying “hot women being action heroes is empowerment, ackchually” bullshit. I know it was a throwback to old trek, but… come on, it’s not the 60s anymore.
(The one where t’pol has to get laid or die has at least got precedent? But it’s still played off just so… icky…)
The one where they auction off T’Pol was rough, but I tapped out (even as a horny 16 year old, mind you) at the episode where the villains were literally women in bikinis painted green. It’s great and all that Orions are a matriarchal society of hot space pirates (who doesn’t love that) but for fuck’s sake that episode was just the worst kind of patronizingly objectifying “hot women being action heroes is empowerment, ackchually” bullshit. I know it was a throwback to old trek, but… come on, it’s not the 60s anymore.
(The one where t’pol has to get laid or die has at least got precedent? But it’s still played off just so… icky…)
fuck, and that show could have been so good :(
Was it the first episode where she had to get mostly naked in a decontamination chamber? I turned it off at that point.
I had forgotten this. Nostalgia…