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dammit, jim, i'm a doctor, not a boy scout leader!

posted by [personal profile] the_dala at 11:57am on 11/05/2009
TOS viewing is continuing apace. I'm watching "Miri" right now, with the disease that kills adults. First of all, it makes me happy that the blond lady with the nutbar wicker hairdo is along on the ground mission (I know she's Yeoman-something, but that work always makes me think of Thomas Jefferson). Honestly, despite the cheesecake costumes, this show is doing way better with gender than I had expected. The more I watch, the more I understand its impact on original viewers.

Aside from somewhat thinky thoughts, I did start shrieking "NO KIRK NO!" when he was HITTING ON A TEENAGE GIRL (who looks so much like Katharine Ross that it's distracting). And then it was hilarious how they were all, "She likes you, Jim...she's becoming a woman" - like it is just taken for granted that our captain is a hotass and can't control it.

Plus this ep reminds me of The Twilight Zone, and that is pleasing.

But seriously, Kirk, STOP HITTING ON THE TEENAGE GIRL.
Mood:: 'amused' amused
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posted by (anonymous) at 04:19pm on 11/05/2009
Yeoman Rand. And she's frickin' awesome. Also, I'm pretty sure she's the voice of the 'puter in Next Gen.

Also, it's kirk's job to exude testosterone at everything female (usually) and post pubescent. I think he even hits on middleaged spock'smom.

/trekkie time
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posted by [identity profile] subversivecynic.livejournal.com at 04:21pm on 11/05/2009
anonymous is me - but with login fail.

Trek always was way ahead of its time on civil rights and minority presentation. It's one of the reasons that people tended to really love or really hate it.
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 04:25pm on 11/05/2009
Yeah, that's one of the reasons it's my dad's favorite show (in addition to "The Wonder Years," which really just says all one needs to know about him). The social context is one of the most intriguing things to me. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to get much out of the show, and glad to find I was wrong!
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posted by [identity profile] hazelhawthorne.livejournal.com at 09:17pm on 11/05/2009
Yeoman Rand was frickin' awesome. I work out at the Ren Faire where many of the queen's guard are yeomen and I always want one of them to pick Rand as his character's last name.

However, the voice of the Computer in Next Gen (as well as the other spin-offs and all the movies including the new one) was Majel Barrett Roddenberry who was in the original series as Number One to Captain Pike (with brown hair) and then as Nurse Chappel (as a blonde).

I am sad to think of them needing to get someone else to be the voice of the computer for any sequels.
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posted by [identity profile] porridgebird.livejournal.com at 12:08am on 12/05/2009
I am sad to think of them needing to get someone else to be the voice of the computer for any sequels.

Oh no. I hadn't even thought of that!
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posted by [identity profile] subversivecynic.livejournal.com at 05:34am on 12/05/2009
Ah. I knew it was one of the regular blond women, but for the life of me I couldn't remember, and as I was on my way out the door to (FINALLY) get to see movie, I wasn't going to bother wiki-ing. I'm a bad trekkie, shame on me.

I always sort of loved Rand's hair, crazy basket weave that it was.
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 07:56pm on 11/05/2009
It totally should. I can see Bones doing the jazz hands now!
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posted by [identity profile] captsparrow4evr.livejournal.com at 09:06pm on 11/05/2009
Actually, the Computer on ST:TNG was Roddenberry's wife and former Nurse Chapel Majel Barrett. Miri was actually played by an incredibly talented actress by the name of Kim Darby who more than held her own against John Wayne in "True Grit." As for Kirk hitting on anything, well, I think it's just his charisma, you know.

BTW, Trek was very progressive for its time but even in the 1980s and 1990s, they found dealing with GLBT issues problematic. See any of David Gerrold's writings about his time on Trek,
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posted by [identity profile] veronica-rich.livejournal.com at 09:30pm on 11/05/2009
I can't resist, even though it's somebody else's journal - where the eff have you BEEN, lady?
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posted by [identity profile] captsparrow4evr.livejournal.com at 03:40am on 12/05/2009
Long story short, working, working, sick, working. More later in my LJ.
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posted by [identity profile] subversivecynic.livejournal.com at 05:39am on 12/05/2009
I know how bad they were when dealing with GLBT issues - though to be fair almost no show was able to deal fairly with the same at that time period... and TNG was a lot less evenhanded than TOS.
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posted by [identity profile] veronica-rich.livejournal.com at 09:31pm on 11/05/2009
Well, this WAS the decade that gave us "Young Girl" and don't forget all those underage forbidden Lolita love ballads of the 70s.

*twitch twitch eyetic shudder*
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posted by [identity profile] porridgebird.livejournal.com at 11:54pm on 11/05/2009
Mmm.. sharpen my pencils, baby...

Grace Lee Whitney ("Yeoman Rand") used to come to the Trek conventions in NYC in the 70s, and have make-up seminars in her hotel room. She'd put up flyers next to the elevators. (I have no idea if anyone ever attended, though. I never met anyone who did.)
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posted by [identity profile] subversivecynic.livejournal.com at 05:35am on 12/05/2009
I would have. In a heartbeat.
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 04:30pm on 12/05/2009
Hee! That's neat.
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