Noooo SparklingCrystal and RiverSpirit

You're making a mockery of my childhood

As I understand it, a lot of the NASA employees thought that ST kind of paved the way for them boffins... So not everything was bad about it...

The bit which struck me was that captain kirk got to snog all the aliens 🤣 in almost every episode lol

Sorry to have upset you, hihi.
And it's not that it wasn't good. Not at all! I think it set the tone, played an important rather ground-breaking role. Space travel, meeting alien species, the way they lived, sci-fi itself and so on.
Even Cpt. Kirk's kissing alien woman in a very subconscious way was a message to be totally okay -and even attracted to- other races & species.
A theme that's very contemporary considering refugees and immigrants from other cultures into our culture & countries.

And it created the perfect platform to introduce the Next Generation in the 90s.
At the time I always said that way of life represented what we are headed for. Far less imbalanced patriarchal (not hinging on so much on status and achieving high income anymore), living more from the heart which is why they're exploring and have the desire to meet new ways of life and so on. No more wars on Earth etc.
And I still believe it's what mankind is headed for.

What I did want to point out is how old-fashioned the old Star Trek is. It shows how fast our technical and societal progress is going.
These days it would be totally not done to have women walk around in knickers and a way too short tunic.

In any case, I love most of the ST stuff :D

Thank you SparklingCrystal

Everything you wrote is quite accurate and correct, just ignore me

I obviously have too much time free at work today

And with regards to women walking around in their lingerie, I think that the trend for higher hemlines was very nicely and accurately portrayed in the movie "The time machine" where the actor's time machine looked out across the road to a fashion store....

oh the time machine a classic film and a great book

Hi Mark,

I guess you can't really beat the classics, treasure island, 20 thousand leagues under the sea, Robinson crusoe, the time machine, and many more...

Pike, number one, and Spock from strange new worlds played the same roles on Discovery