[For my daily workout, I'm pedaling on a recumbent exercise bike while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm posting my reviews here.]
(200.2 pounds)
Did I just watch an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which a planet ruled by women needs a man to help them with a moral dilemma?
Why, yes. Yes, I did.
I’m guessing it went like this in the writing room:
“Uh, sir: we’ve been getting some mail about the oversexualization of women in episodes like ‘The Naked Now’ and ‘Code of Honor’ and ‘Justice’ and ‘Haven.’ I was wondering–”
“Jesus Christ! Is the whole world full of my ex-wives? What will it take to please these broads? Here’s what we’ll do: write an episode with a whole goddamned planet run by them, one in which all the men have to go shirtless.”
“ALL the men, sir?”
“All the men. Picard, Riker, the kid, the engineer guy we’re about to shitcan, the blind dude…”
“Sir, the blind dude was actually in a whole show in which he was shirtless.”
“Fine. Then he gets to keep his shirt AND he gets to be captain of the fucking ship for a day.”
Oof. The only good part of this episode was Geordi getting to run things aboard the Enterprise, and even that wasn’t much given how Riker’s chest-loaf got twenty minutes of screen time.
My grade: Sorry, but I’ve got to pull out a whole other letter. G. This is actually worse than “Justice” and “Code of Honor.”
Didn’t they fail at reverse sexism? because according to this ep, ‘all them broads really needed was a good bangin from a REAL man’
Yes, they did indeed. The whole episode is like a wink from one man to another about “this is what happens when women rule a world, am I right? Heh heh.”