I’m rewatching old Star Trek episodes to see which ones pass the B’kdel Test:(1) Two named Klingons(2) Talking to each other(3) About something other than honor

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@drmaddkap

This is excellent. Absolutely excellent.

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@drmaddkap I'm guessing you mean TNG?

I still suspect the number is going to be small.

[axomamma@mastodon.online]

@drmaddkap I've been listening to the audiobook of "The Expanse." It's absolutely rotten with misogyny and fails the Bechdel test so thoroughly, I'm astonished that it was made into a TV series - much less twice! Whoever gave it the green light hates women and never matured past the fifth grade. It's shocking that even in a past as remote as 2012-2017, this book series was published. No surprise at all that it won a Hugo, an award that should warn off any intelligent person.

[prokyonid@mastodon.sdf.org]

@jqmcd @drmaddkap I can think of a couple, but you'd have to count Alexander even though he's part human.

[megmuttonhead@mas.to]

@Axomamma @drmaddkap well, _this_ feminist finds that to be a particularly hot take, but thank you for that.

The women in The Expanse are fully realized, fearless, and three dimensional, and some—notably Bobbie the Martian Marine and Naomi, who winds up leading the entire resistance movement—are among the most memorable women in fiction.

Yeah, they pass the Bechdel test, but that’s almost beside the point, given the thematic critiques of racism & sexism.

[darth_hideout@mas.to]

@drmaddkap

You get plenty of gagh talk in DS9.

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

CC @georgetakei - maybe he remembers one such instance?

[whyrl@furry.engineer]

@nazokiyoubinbou @drmaddkap I hate that "old" in this context means TNG/DS9.

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@whyrl @drmaddkap Agreed

[cursedsilicon@social.restless.systems]

@drmaddkap Is this just an excuse to re-watch all of Star Trek?

(Asking for a friend)