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spirk-trek · 1 day

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he's so unhelpful and it's on purpose

#spock is on some shit in this episode #endless sass #star trek #my edit #spock #uhura #star trek tos #star trek the original series #the original series #stills #nyota uhura #screencaps #shitposting

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lindsayvanekart · 1 year

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“Our Lady of New Frontiers, Nichelle Nichols”

My last painting of 2022, and I wanted it to be a painting carrying me into the new year, a tribute to an amazing and inspirational woman.

Star Trek has been a show I have watched since I was a wee one. I started with TNG as a child, but when I finally watched TOS in college, its impact was undeniable, both today and especially during the time it aired.

Although the famous speech says “final frontier”, Nichelle Nichols was a woman leading the way onto new frontiers, a beacon of hope, resilience and possibility. So that is what I wish to carry with me into the new year.

prints can be found through my site: www.lindsayvanek.com

#nichelle nichols #star trek #star trek tos #star trek the original series #uhura #art nouveau #portrait painting #artists on tumblr

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mephistopheles · 10 months

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1x01 // 1x04 // 2x01 // TWoK // TSfS

#spirk #sorry if the gifs are shitty. pretend its queer camp #spock #kirk #tos #star trek #twok #tsfs #k/s #the premise......#uhura

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dduane · 15 days

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Uhura's boop

#Star Trek #Uhura #boop

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1shirt2shirtredshirtdeadshirt · 9 months

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Sexism in TOS: Worst Offender, or Progressive in Retrospect in Comparison?

I see a lot of folks claim that TOS was the most sexist of the Star Trek shows by a landslide -- and while I agree that it definitely suffered from the sexism of the times, I also have other perspectives to share to give some food for thought.

I am of course not insinuating that TOS isn't sexist -- it is, but I have to ask folks to consider the breadth and depth of Berman's sexism in his run and ask yourself: Was Gene Roddenberry genuinely more sexist in his storytelling and delivery than Rick Berman?

I'm not telling you to feel one way or the other, but all I ask is that you hear me out and consider some perspectives and make your own balanced assessments. Nobody is obligated to share my opinion, but it means a lot just to have folks hear it and see their thoughts on the subject. So here is what I was originally responding to:

Someone's response to this photo:

"Devil's advocate. This was a part of the popular form of cardio during the production time of TNG. Yes, it was heavily sexualised by men, but so is literally every other way women work out. Men have been caught taking pictures of women while trying to do dead lifts, running on tracks and working on sled machines. They post them online to share too. The fact is, there is no way a woman can be shown working out without it going there. And yeah,t hat includes the combat forms of workout they do in Star Trek. Just look at how Dax dresses when she spars with Worf. Yes, they're dating, but still, same goes when 7 does and any other female.

Aerobics routines like this were made dirty and cringy. This was what women wore then by and large. This is how the workout was done. We make it cringy."

My response to them:

"I respect your take, but I disagree on a few fronts.

The miniskirt was chosen by the TOS female cast, not the male cast, specifically requested by Grace LW and affirmed by Nichelle and Majel who would go on to vehemently defend the miniskirt over the years as comfortable and embraced by them.

Grace said it was comfortable and seen as a symbol of female sexual empowerment during the 60s and thought it would be a progressive garment (and turns out that it was, as it was later adapted and worn by male crew as a skant on TNG) -- FYI those were designed by a gay man and Gene approved them.

This was also supposed to be Spock's TMP outfit:

Literally lingerie.

We saw both Uhura (who saves Kirk in from Marlena Mirror Mirror) and Yeoman Landon (the first to initiate combat with a classic Kirk-esque kick to help the Captain being attacked in The Apple) carry out their combat training in their Starfleet uniforms without ever being made to change into any ridiculous workout gear.

In fact, I'd argue Jim Kirk was sexualized even more than the ladies of the week on the show and I saw his naked body more than anyone else's on a fairly regular basis. He wore red yoga tights while topless in Charlie X while the women wore full length gymnastic suits that covered their entire body. If anything, it went out of its way to avoid sexualizing women practicing fitness in those scenes and instead focused on Kirk.

Gene confessed that he asked to have Shatner filmed in suggestive/provocative ways to "give something to the ladies", so he -- as he said -- liked to "film him walking away" or have him conveniently busting out of his shirts in just about every episode as it were, because Shatner apparently had great assets. LOL

Gene made an effort to at least sexualize both if he was going to sexualize one, and he carried that attitude forward in wanting the m/m and f/f scenes in the background on Risa for TNG. He also insisted that the men and women wear skimpy outfits on THAT TNG planet. You know the one. LOL I mean the dudes even had on less than the women:

Gene also gave permission to K/S shippers to have their conventions back in the 70s when he was asked for permission. Gene and Nimoy felt with all the skimpy outfits they had the ladies wear, why not let the ladies and gay men have their fun, too? It's how we ended up with moments like this:

Yes, those are two people dressed up as Kirk and Spock's penises doing interpretive dance. Gene didn't give two damns. LOL

In my eyes, that was a very progressive take on Gene's part for the 60s. It was actually PARAMOUNT STUDIOS who had the big problem with K/S stories and vehemently tried to shut them down. Gene literally hired slash authors on his payroll and even had several slash stories/writers published in his official Star Trek books (The New Voyages & The New Voyages II).

I feel I saw Uhura and women in TOS engaged in more physical combat/altercations defending themselves that Troi or Bev were shown holding their own.

In fact, Kirk used to get furious when someone would "dress up" his female crew members without their consent (Trelane episode, Shore Leave episode) because like his male crew members, he wanted them to be treated professionally and to also have his male crew act professionally.

Berman brought some of his own personal biases into Star Trek that in some ways regressed it. While TOS had blatant sexism and was called on it time and again, that show was made in the 60s -- a solid 21 years before TNG. We as a modern audience understood why some of it was cringe/sexist due to the time period -- look at any other media coming out in the 60s and Star Trek was miles ahead of what other shows were doing.

Compare that to Berman who was churning sexist stuff out when women like Starbuck and Scully were simultaneously on screen on other programs airing, and we had already had Sigourney Weaver and other strong women in Holywood playing respectful roles.

In my eyes, there was no need of the sexism seen in TNG but especially VOY and ENT. There was no excuse for it when other shows were writing women far better and a number of those weren't even set in the future like Trek was, making it age even faster due to having those dated perspectives frequently highlighted.

In the Center Seat documentary as well as "The Fifty Year Mission" book you will find cast members, writers and other studio alumni who attest to this. Some discussions from "The Fifty Year Mission":

"First, Berman was supposed to have been a real sleaze ball . . . According to Terry Farrel, he would go on constantly about how her breasts weren't big enough, how she should do something about it, and how his secretary was a good example to follow as she had huge breasts. She even had to have fittings to get larger bras, and that was all done at his behest.

Later Berman and Braga developed a name for Jeri Ryan's character prior Seven of Nine. They originally called the character "perineum" which if you look it up it is the area between the anus and the scrotum. Later they floated the name "6 of 9". I mean, what does it tell you about where these two were coming from in the development of this character if they had names like that put forward in all seriousness for her?"

Gene Roddenberry also had some of his own more progressive ideas for TNG cut or watered down by Berman. Roddenberry agreed TNG should have homosexual relationships and representation at a con in the 80s and insisted on it in a meeting with his writers -- something Berman later would not honor. Gene wanted the AIDS episode, showing m/m and f/f in the Riza scenes -- these were some of Roddenberry's requests to include in TNG that Berman later stonewalled.

Berman's era was sadly dated by his own misogynist bias, IMO, to the point that it can somewhat hurt the shows he worked on through his cringe egoism and blatant disrespect toward his female cast.

There is a reason why Gene could keep female actresses working with him and Berman had a revolving door of women that he couldn't seem to keep working for him -- he was abhorrent to women, on and off set. Gene wasn't perfect at all, he had a lot of issues himself -- but Berman was a whole other level. Just look at what he did to poor Jolene Blalock, Marina Sirtis and his toxic commenting on her body weight which exacerbated her struggles with eating disorders, or how he treated and talked to Terry Farrell.

Anyway, just some food for thought. I'm not saying anyone is wrong regarding a take like that, but there are a variety of ways to look at this. Gene Roddenberry isn't a saint by any means, but it definitely bothers me how folks will tote the Berman era as if it were the lesser of two evils or the more progressive depiction of women when I felt there were far more concerning portrayals of women in his era with far less justification.

(P.S: I don't event want to go near the sheer amount of "creepy old dude/villain preys on innocent/naïve/scared young woman or little girl" stories there were in Berman's era, either. But that's a whole other can of worms I can write about in a part 2.)

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lemonemenom · 1 year

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*whispers* they know we’re still here right?

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foolpoof · 11 days

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Uhura you will always be that girl

I forgot how much I love coloring with halftones it’s a good time

#ittys art #star trek #nyota uhura #uhura #tos uhura #star trek the original series #star trek tos #lieutenant uhura #uhura fanart #star trek fan art #star trek tos fanart

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xfilesposterproject · 9 months

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Available the next two weeks only for a limited one-time sale: all 20 of my Star Trek: Strange New Worlds inspired episode posters. You can pre-order in the shop now at jjlendl.com/shop/snw.

I'll also be adding a season finale print on Thursday for the final week of the sale.

Big thanks to everyone for all the kind words and reposts over the past 8 weeks about my Season 2 artwork! Hope you can grab some prints while I have them available. Thanks!

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klarmis · 26 days

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After a short break I finally finished this part🥺

You can see the part 1 here

Part 3 in progress

#star trek #star trek tos #star trek the original series #star trek original series #star trek tos fanart #nyota uhura #uhura #lieutenant uhura #montgomery scott #mr scott #scotty #christine chapel #chapel #mlp #mlp art #my little pony #art #fanart

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vreenak · 2 months

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STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS (2022- ) ↳ Every character in every episode: Uhura in The Elysian Kingdom, 1x8

Be grateful your queen is feeling merciful today.

#uhura #star trek #strange new worlds #startrekladies #februhura #trekedit #snwdaily #*mysnw #*myst #my edits

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aurorasoverthecoast · 9 months

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Spock and Jim made out in the mess hall???

#bitch that is firm handshake right there #star trek #star trek snw #strange new worlds #snw #snw spirk #snw spock #snw jim kirk #spock #spirk #s’chn t’gai spock #james t kirk #jim kirk #nyota uhura #uhura #snw uhura

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swedenis-h · 1 year

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They’re so me when I

#they’re so special to me omg #I love them so so much!#also uhura is laughing cus of the situation not at spock!!#anways they are besties 4 lyfe #star trek fanart #st #st aos #Star trek #star trek aos #star trek aos fanart #spock #uhura #aos #art #my art #fanart #digital art

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lt-kaollumn · 6 months

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spocktober day 8 : tribble

prompt list by @rubbertplant spocktober by @spocksjuul

#star trek #star trek fanart #star trek tos #star trek the original series #star trek spock #spock #spocktober #mr spock #s'chn t'gai spock #uhura #lieutenant uhura #nyota uhura #tribbles #trouble with tribbles #spock spock spock spock

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holodeck-enthusiast · 1 month

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Star trek TOS gives us the hope that everything in the medical industry will be shiny and glittery as fuck in the future. Knowing this I can sleep well tonight.

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woman-of-many-fandoms · 9 months

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#jim kirk #he trys #star trek #strange new worlds #james t kirk #uhura #strange new worlds season 2 #snw s2 #st snw #snw #star trek snw #star trek strange new worlds #strange new worlds spoilers

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misterparadigm · 7 months

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In honor of Star Trek Day, here is the collection of my cast pieces so far! I've got The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Lower Decks.

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