“I felt that the [TNG] writers and producers could not escape from their own essential rigidity in their attitudes to women. They were continually featured as sexual objects, as softer, weaker, and therefore – it always seemed to me—second-class individuals. And because I believed and still do that the show represents what our underlying philosophies are, it doubly irritated me that in that area I thought we were failing.There is a kind of boys’ club about Star Trek, do you understand? It’s in the air all around the show, in the producers, in the front office, in the writers’ building. Our actresses were not finding sympathetic ears for the things they had to say, and I think at times they simply got exhausted by the battle.”
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October 8, 2015 at 7:14 am
john zande
He’s an impressive man. Watched an interview with him where he discussed politics. Head nods from beginning to end.
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October 8, 2015 at 12:56 pm
E.A. Stephens
Love this show and love this actor. He speaks true about how women could sometimes be treated on the show, but the TNG women are some of my favorite sci-fi girls. Really well-developed characters.
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October 8, 2015 at 10:35 pm
VR Kaine
I think Stewart is fixated on Counselor Troy, who’s effectively the ship’s HR Department who – in any organization – happens to be the people who are always “softer and weaker”. :)
As for TNG, there’s a documentary on it that shows just how crappy all the cast were treated – especially the women. Anyone see it? Ironic considering Roddenberry’s vision of justice and equal rights in the future.
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October 8, 2015 at 10:43 pm
VR Kaine
“Chaos on the Bridge”
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October 11, 2015 at 11:23 am
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