Is Discovery really Star Trek for girls?
Since the debut of Star Trek: Discovery in 2017 on CBS All Access, fans have been treated to special effects, costumes, ship designs, and makeup only available in feature films. Some fans have not been happy with the changes that Discovery brought about. There has been pushback on these innovations, including the serialized storytelling, or telling one long story through 10 episodes or more, rather than the planet of the week formula, which most Trek shows have used since 1966. In the wake of the massive success of HBOs Game of Thrones, it did make a good deal of sense to try serialization for Star Trek. Discovery also followed in the wake of the highly successful Battlestar Galactica, which thrived by telling serialized stories. This was a change for the franchise, as previously, the only Trek show to do a serialized story was Deep Space Nine.  Some of the other areas of backlash from a particular quadrant of fans include the lack of development in characters besides Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) that the characters besides Burnham are not relatable, and the inconsistent use of technology (for which the turbolift in Season Three was a primary culprit). Another big complaint was adding Discovery to the Trek timeline before The Original Series, which makes everything much more complicated. As Angelica Jade Bastin wrote for New York Magazines Vulture, how can any Star Trek series be forward-thinking if the franchise itself is so committed to revisiting its distant past? This may have been why the writers of Discovery decided to push the show into the 31st Century at the end of Season Two. One of the biggest complaints of those who do not enjoy Discovery is with all the crying and the ratio of male to female cast members. While some dislike these developments on the show, others, especially social media, are delighted with DISCO. Comments like the above are commonplace, and many fans are happy that Discovery has a feminist angle with many strong female characters. Some people think I dont like Trekkies who're straight white dudes but I actually think it's really cool to see those men branch out. Don't let toxic masculinity tell you not to like Star Trek just because it's "for girls" and "increidbly gay". Star Trek can be for everyone   Deep Space Fine (@thisismewhatevs) November 15, 2020  This should not be surprising. A 2016 survey found that the majority of Star Trek fans are women. Perhaps this is why in the upcoming season of Discovery, all four positions of leadership on the ship will be occupied by women  a first for the Trek franchise. Is Star Trek for girls?      Play    All Planets Are Ruled By Women in Star Trek Discovery sci fi reviews channel: youtube.com/channel/UCrLsxBysUHnpSKRpXMbMVzg All parody Edits : youtube.com/channel/UCnnRzi7q1YTRFYvzSnjEzhQ 2021-01-20T17:23:34Z  Many have written that Star Trek has always been about equality and supporting all kinds of people. Some point out that the shows were very sexist through the years (Seven of Nines catsuit leads the way here). But with Discovery, fans hear the word feminist associated with their favorite franchise more and more. Stories by Salon, Bustle, and The Chicago Tribune state this very plainly. I love that our female characters gender never holds them back in their minds or in the minds of their colleagues, said Heather Kadin, a former producer on Discovery, Kadin said this and more for a piece in The New York Times. sci fi reviews channel: youtube.com/channel/UCrLsxBysUHnpSKRpXMbMVzg All parody Edits : youtube.com/channel/UCnnRzi7q1YTRFYvzSnjEzhQ 2019-04-03T22:02:09Z  One of fans most significant points of contention is that Discovery betrays Gene Roddenberrys vision. While this might be true in the realm of special effects and ship design (see the video above), Gene himself might have something different to say. In the years, I have grown into something of a strong feminist, Roddenberry said in The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History Of Star Trek, as written by Ed Grossman and Mark A. Altman. I was the product of a Southern family background, said Roddenberry. My parents never spoke of any race with contempt. They encouraged me to try strange ideas and philosophies.  In this same book, Leonard Nimoy recalled that Roddenberrys view of women did evolve while working on Star Trek.  His attitude toward women on Trek were miniskirted, big-boobed sex objects  toys for guys, said Nimoy. He cleaned up that act gradually only because people pointed it out to him.  READ NEXT: Messing with a Masterpiece: Updating Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan