Gene Roddenberry tried again in 1974 with Planet Earth, his second attempt to launch a post-apocalyptic science fiction series after Genesis II failed to get picked up the previous year.
If anything these pilots that spawned no offspring, no children can be taken as proof that whatever good qualities Star Trek had, they were owed to people other than creepy old Roddy, like for example as some suggest, the other Gene, if not many many more people, from writers to actors and more.
Not to say the man was devoid of ability (might be jumping the gun to say that), but clearly he was at least in that category of person who needs a roomful of people with the authority to say no to terrible ideas.
I realize it was decades later but wasn't ANDORMEDIA another attempt by Roddenberry to revitalize the Dylan Hunt character or is the same name in the series just a coincidence? I for one loved ANDFROMEDA and if I remember correctly it had 3-4 seasons.
A genuine attempt to explore explicit & structural matriarchy in fiction would be interesting. But existing examples usually hand-wave away anything interesting
How did women obtain power? How do they preserve it? Would a female political structure look or function differently to a male one? Given the female tendency to be less hierarchical than men, how does the political structure scale? Is it a genuine matriarchy, or just a few powerful women who use men as their enforcers? Men are usually more prone to & capable of physical violence than women - how does that interact with matriarchy in the military, the police, day to day interactions? There is a notable subset of women who are romantically drawn to violent men - how is that managed? How do the sex-specific demands of child-rearing handled? Presumably a matriarchal society tends “socialist” but socialist societies tend to consume their own social & economic capital rather than generate it - how do they solve that issue?
An honest attempt to explore this would be way more interesting than a progressive sex or power fantasy
If anything these pilots that spawned no offspring, no children can be taken as proof that whatever good qualities Star Trek had, they were owed to people other than creepy old Roddy, like for example as some suggest, the other Gene, if not many many more people, from writers to actors and more.
Not to say the man was devoid of ability (might be jumping the gun to say that), but clearly he was at least in that category of person who needs a roomful of people with the authority to say no to terrible ideas.
It's definitely difficult to produce sex on the mainstream screen, given content restrictions, guidelines & audience expectations.
Just look at Farscape! That show tried desperately to be an antithesis of TNG. What we got was cringeworthy and laughable.
I realize it was decades later but wasn't ANDORMEDIA another attempt by Roddenberry to revitalize the Dylan Hunt character or is the same name in the series just a coincidence? I for one loved ANDFROMEDA and if I remember correctly it had 3-4 seasons.
A genuine attempt to explore explicit & structural matriarchy in fiction would be interesting. But existing examples usually hand-wave away anything interesting
How did women obtain power? How do they preserve it? Would a female political structure look or function differently to a male one? Given the female tendency to be less hierarchical than men, how does the political structure scale? Is it a genuine matriarchy, or just a few powerful women who use men as their enforcers? Men are usually more prone to & capable of physical violence than women - how does that interact with matriarchy in the military, the police, day to day interactions? There is a notable subset of women who are romantically drawn to violent men - how is that managed? How do the sex-specific demands of child-rearing handled? Presumably a matriarchal society tends “socialist” but socialist societies tend to consume their own social & economic capital rather than generate it - how do they solve that issue?
An honest attempt to explore this would be way more interesting than a progressive sex or power fantasy