Holy hell, the miniskirts. I know it was progressive for its time, women’s lib, etc. But: Female officers bending over console, butt swell hanging out. Almost every episode, over sexualized women needlessly emotional, constantly falling into male arms. Barely clothed, wisps of fabric. Spock saying that Kirk’s alter ego trying to rape his female officer made him interesting.
I’m at episode 14, 1st season. Is the rest of the series like this?
That said, there’s a hard, pure science to it I haven’t seen in later star treks. Can see how people then would find it fascinating. Also gets deep, in a weighty, high drama way.
So, one of the things one needs to realize about Star Trek is that while it’s (mostly) focused on lofty ideals and egalitarianism, the shows and movies are entertainment products made by humans from within the entertainment industry, and there’s just a lot of scummy people in that industry.
To wit: Brannon Braga was a notorious shitheel to a lot of people in various series. He was the one who pushed for the weird “sexy catsuits” for several prominent characters (Seven; T’pol), was notoriously licentious, and apparently also a homophobe (apparently he told Dominic Keating his character was gay “to get a rise out of him”, in addition to other more writing-oriented things).
There are a lot of rumors that Roddenberry humped all the guest actresses, which is why so many of them are hotties with big breasts. He definitely had a type.