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| An unnatural number of women types, yesterday. |
You ever
enter a conversation and you get to a stage where you're desperately
praying “don't disappoint me, don't disappoint me, don't disappoint
me”? Well, I keep having that when Star Trek: Discovery
comes up. I swear, 90% of the conversations I have about this show
with any guy ends up with “Aren't there are a lot of women in it,
though?”
No.
No no no no no.
There's
five. There's Michael Burnham herself, Captain Phillipa Georgiou,
Commander Landry, Cadet Tilly and the ginger flight controller whose name
escapes me at the moment. So far only four out of this list have
appeared in a single episode together. That's not a lot. Four women
in any given episode (so far, in the UK we have episodes one to
three). That's not actually a lot, especially considering one of them
has so few lines I can't remember her name.
I'm reminded
of Terry Pratchett's Men-At-Arms
where one of the central jokes is that the Watch is being required to recruit “minorities” and they recruit a troll, a dwarf and a
werewolf except no one says that Angua is a werewolf until she
finally transforms so for more than hundred pages you think the
minorities are a troll, a dwarf and a woman
and laugh at these male characters who are so uncomfortable about
(you think) having a woman in their space.
And
then you get to a point in real life where people continuously act
like having four women sharing screentime in a given episode of Star
Trek is somehow an unnaturally
inflated figure.
Spot
on, Sir Terry, spot on.
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