VID: Mm Yeah (Star Trek)
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beatriceeagleTitle: Mm Yeah
Fandom: Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DSC)
Music: "Woman," by Kesha
Summary: Fifty years of women in, and despite, Star Trek.
Warnings: Violence against women, including a scene of attempted rape; flickering lights.
Notes: Thanks totigerlily for betaing!
This is the second vid in an album of Star Trek vids set to songs from Kesha's Rainbow album. You can see the first vid (an examination of Bashir and Garak's relationship, set to "Godzilla") right here!
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Fandom: Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DSC)
Music: "Woman," by Kesha
Summary: Fifty years of women in, and despite, Star Trek.
Warnings: Violence against women, including a scene of attempted rape; flickering lights.
Notes: Thanks to
tigerlily for betaing! This is the second vid in an album of Star Trek vids set to songs from Kesha's Rainbow album. You can see the first vid (an examination of Bashir and Garak's relationship, set to "Godzilla") right here!
I don't want to get too much into this one, because I feel like it's at least a little bit self-explanatory. This is probably not the song that I would've chosen to do an examination of the history of women in Star Trek, but that's the thing about vidding an album and a franchise; sometimes you don't really get a choice. When I realized that the Star-Trek-vid-for-every-Rainbow-song was going to be a real thing and not something that I idly thought about as I drove, "Woman" was one of the songs that I knew was going to present a little bit of a problem. (Not a big problem—the big problem songs are the ones I'm still agonizing about.)
Because the story of "Woman" just isn't the story of women in Star Trek. Yeah, they can be individually badass and awesome, but Star Trek has historically been pretty terrible to its female characters. So I started listening to the structure of the song, and eventually I figured that I could fit both of those things into the vid: both how amazing Star Trek's female characters are, and how thoroughly the franchise has failed them.
A couple of notes: I know I missed one or two characters (Sela, Samantha Wildman, Mezoti), but I think I got most of the women who appeared in three or more live action episodes (except for the Picard characters and season two Discovery characters, because the bulk of this vid was made last year). I made sure that no woman only appeared in the critique section—if I was going to show how the show failed her, I was also going to show that she was cool.
Also, I just think it should be noted that women in Star Trek didn't get to wear flats until Discovery.
A couple of notes: I know I missed one or two characters (Sela, Samantha Wildman, Mezoti), but I think I got most of the women who appeared in three or more live action episodes (except for the Picard characters and season two Discovery characters, because the bulk of this vid was made last year). I made sure that no woman only appeared in the critique section—if I was going to show how the show failed her, I was also going to show that she was cool.
Also, I just think it should be noted that women in Star Trek didn't get to wear flats until Discovery.
