1001 fires going

[cornerofmadness]

at work. Gonna be a fun semester...not. However I have BIG classes this time out. It's a good thing. It's a bad thing. It's good to have many students. It's bad the way they made this happen. Sigh. Here's hoping that the students will be good. If nothing else I've had several already reaching out to tell me their 'i'm going to be away for sports' schedules, what book are we using, can I get a jump on things. At least some of them are excited and that makes it good for me.

And speaking of good for me, I finished the Hazbin Hotel wipbigbang during the author's zoom tonight. WOO HOO (it's over 32K HOW?) That means I can be plotting the remaining The Owl House chapters for that entry into wipbigbang on the trip home tomorrow. Or if not that then my outstanding fandomtrumpshate story because damn I'm behind.

Hey look at me doing a fandom tuesday again after so long. I think I'll stick with Star Trek for the time being. So, The Next Generation...so many women to choose from, Beverly, Deanna, Laxwana, Natasha, Ro, Keiko, just to name a few. And as much as I would like to feature Laxwana because Majel really is the first woman of ST, she was rather one note for a long time.

However Beverly wasn't an instant love for me either



She was more Mom at first and let's be honest they rarely knew what to do with ANY of the women back in the 80s and 90s ST. Some of it was rough until we got to DS9/Voyager.

But as I said in my sabbatical presentation, I had zero rep to look at to see women doctors. All I had was Beverly to look at and say yes women CAN be doctors and in charge. So she became important to me. I loved seeing her. I hated some of her episodes of course (OMG the gothic romance Irish space ghost sex)

But for the most part she was smart, resourceful and strong. I could have had worse role models as an older teen.


But there is a one off character (okay 2 off) that might be my absolute favorite female in TNG: K'Ehleyr




To this day I want to have a pair of cats named Worf and K'Ehleyr (even though I ended up less thrilled with Worf by the end).

K'Ehleyr was also incredibly strong, smart and resourceful. She was sarcastic and a smart mouth and I saw a lot of myself in her. I loved that she flew in the face of Klingon traditions (which changed from more equals to whatever misogynistic nonsense it became on DS9 with Bergman)

What I hated was that they fridged her. I think that might have been one of the first times that happened in a show I really loved and it made me so angry. I'm still angry.

If you have never seen Star Trek: TNG I highly recommend it.

Comments

[winterfirelight]

Good luck with the semester!

I really should re-watch TNG one of these days.

[cornerofmadness]

thank you

I think it's worth a rewatch. Most of it holds up well

[spikedluv]

I'm glad some of the students seem excited about the class! I hope everything goes well, despite having much larger classes. And whatever fresh hell is happening with your school now.

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks.

Two buildings have no a/c and that's the best of the bad news

[kitarella_imagines]

Oh yes Beverley was great. Low key but a strong woman.

One thing I liked about TNG was the representation of humans in future centuries. They are all so calm and relaxed. That episode where they went back in time and met some 20th century humans made it clear how screwed up contemporary humans are. I can't wait for First Contact day when the Vulcans arrive and show us how to live sensibly.

[cornerofmadness]

You know what, I have actually heard that as a strike against Star Trek, that it's too relaxed, utopian and there for boring. I'm like I'd take this kind of boring any day

[kitarella_imagines]

Oh now you mention it, I've heard that too. Every ST episode ends neatly with them all happy. I used to think that was silly, but the current world we live in makes me yearn for a utopia like that with no starvation, worldwide equality, advanced healthcare. Hopefully the current times are a glitch and we'll start evolving forwards again soon 🤞All we need is for the food replicator to be invented!

[cornerofmadness]

I'm with you there. And I believe if we can see it, we can work toward it which makes ST important (though I'm busy lately eye rolling at the far right whining about how the new Trek is so Woke. I'm like have you every watched ANY episode of Trek? It's always been woke)

[kitarella_imagines]

Oh god! When are they going to shut up about Woke? They need to accept that everyone is different. Diversity and representation are good, interesting and important.

Here's hoping we'll get to live like ST in the very near future!🥂

[cornerofmadness]

They have no interest in that sadly

[kitarella_imagines]

It is a shame there are more anti-woke people now, or at least they seem to shout the loudest 🙄

[cornerofmadness]

and in my area they use armed intimidation

[kitarella_imagines]

Yes, it must be frightening in the US with all the guns 😣

[trobadora]

I remember K'Ehleyr very fondly!

[cornerofmadness]

She was awesome and sadly under utilized (as if Worf needed reasons to rage)

[suzume]

Oh, TNG was great. Poor K'Ehleyr, I definitely remember her. ;_;

[cornerofmadness]

It's still my favorite Star trek

[suzume]

But of course! It's a good one.

[cornerofmadness]

I'm the first to admit it took until year 3 for it to be truly good. They played it way too safe S1

[suzume]

Eh, most of the Star Trek shows weren't at their best in their first season anyway. (Actually, though DS9 started out pretty well)

[cornerofmadness]

you're not wrong