Comments on: Star Trek commentary

By: Athena Andreadis

Athena Andreadis — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:55:03 +0000

Here’s my take, which parallels yours. As the author of The Biology of Star Trek, I had to review the reboot for the sake of completeness!

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=7795

By: Grant Watson

Grant Watson — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:44:35 +0000

The male miniskirts were in Season 1 of The Next Generation, and didn’t last out the year. (Neither did the female ones, from memory.)

By: David S.

David S. — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:32:52 +0000

Those miniskirt uniforms never were 1960s, they’re strictly 22nd century (miniskirts are coming back, again, big time in the 22nd baby, trust me).

By: Stephen Dedman

Stephen Dedman — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:50:27 +0000

Re: the miniskirts. IIRC, Roddenberry made it clear that female crew-members could choose to wear trousers (I can remember some doing so in TOS)… and that males could, if they chose, wear the miniskirts.

I have a vague memory of seeing a man wearing a skirt in one brief scene in TOS, but I’m not prepared to swear to it. And no, I don’t mean Scotty’s kilt.

By: Graham Clements

Graham Clements — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:56:52 +0000

James T. Kirk was born in the shortest labour in movie history. – isn’t this an example of Moore’s law in reverse – it’s the future, things always happen quicker in the future.