My girlfriend was Star Trek newbie, we watched all of TNG and she loved it. We went back to TOS. There’s a few decent stories, and she’s trying to look past the style and production issues of the time that make them feel ancient, but the gender politics of the time are really blatant.

Yeoman Rand gets sexually assaulted, then gets questioned BY THE GUY SHES ACCUSING and then at the end they joke that she sort of liked it.

Throughout the series women are just constantly ogled and talked about in a super unprofessional way. They’re either hysterical and evil or cat like and subservient.

The show is weirdly a lot more racially inclusive than sexually.

It was a different time I guess, but I kind of see why some people complain that Star Trek has “gone woke” - people argue that it always was, and in lots of ways it was very progressive and revolutionary, but it’s much less than I remember!

It's hard to believe that Discovery will be completely finished by the time summer comes around.

Strange New Worlds seems to be the banner show now but even that can't last forever.

Will the Academy show eventually become the only live action series? Or do you think there will be multiple shows again? If so, will the franchise-runners want to emphasize the 32nd century?

It seems to me that the Section 31 TV movie will probably be a one-shot. Also, I'm guessing the Kelvin-verse is pretty much done, despite persistent articles about "Star Trek 4" in the past eight years.

I'm also doubtful about the new Picard movie that Stewart mentioned. It just feels like a project of that magnitude would ride on the wave created by the Picard TV series. But that ended a year ago. By the time a movie would get confirmed, written, filmed, and released....it could realistically be 2025 or 2026.

Anyway, I'm obviously just speculating. I would like to hear your theories.

Never done a poll before, but this silly topic has always bugged me, so why not?

Certain ships like Enterprise and Cerritos (and pretty much any one named after a place) seem to work better with “the” before them. Others, like Discovery and Voyager sound odd to use it if you don’t include the word “starship” immediately afterwards.

But then Enterprise came along and suddenly Archer and co. were dropping the article consistently.

So which is it? Enterprise isn’t a place but a lot of mentions are easier to say by including “the.” I would expect some grammar lessons, but I’m curious what people think is the best way to refer to the most famous starship, and why.

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I'm new to the fandom and doing a (mostly) first time full series watch, I'm on the TNG movies and I can't help but feel the shows uniforms just look far better aesthetically, and I felt the same with the TOS movies