There's a clumsy attempt to mirror the historical treatment of women on earth except the roles are reversed.
For the briefest of moments I considered that Riker or Beata were attempting to use sexual power to influence one another but they just had some sex and the plot continued on.
How about some finesse in the writing of this story? Maybe these men had held power but came close to destroying the entire planet (Impossible, right!) and the women had to take control to save the planet but they over corrected? I dunno. Give me something to work with to justify Beata willing to kill the male dissenters.
What is there to say about Riker's sex slave outfit beyond, "wow!". I was expecting some kind of Troi reaction but I forgot that jealously has been exiled from the human condition in gene's star trek season 1 vision.
The B-Plot was chosen based on a writer throwing a dart at the B-Plot idea board. A magical virus is created and Dr. Crusher has to.... ..... zzz...zzz...zzzz... caused by inhaling deeply..... cure found... Georgi currently best performed male actor on show.
We end the episode with the old 'ship the problem away' solution. No potential for problems there. Was this a commentary on feminists being unrelenting? Was it Gene's meddling that ruined potentially great idea's in S1? At times you almost feel like S1 could be used as a cadaver for future show runners to examine to learn what not to do when making a tv show.
For the briefest of moments I considered that Riker or Beata were attempting to use sexual power to influence one another but they just had some sex and the plot continued on.
How about some finesse in the writing of this story? Maybe these men had held power but came close to destroying the entire planet (Impossible, right!) and the women had to take control to save the planet but they over corrected? I dunno. Give me something to work with to justify Beata willing to kill the male dissenters.
What is there to say about Riker's sex slave outfit beyond, "wow!". I was expecting some kind of Troi reaction but I forgot that jealously has been exiled from the human condition in gene's star trek season 1 vision.
The B-Plot was chosen based on a writer throwing a dart at the B-Plot idea board. A magical virus is created and Dr. Crusher has to.... ..... zzz...zzz...zzzz... caused by inhaling deeply..... cure found... Georgi currently best performed male actor on show.
We end the episode with the old 'ship the problem away' solution. No potential for problems there. Was this a commentary on feminists being unrelenting? Was it Gene's meddling that ruined potentially great idea's in S1? At times you almost feel like S1 could be used as a cadaver for future show runners to examine to learn what not to do when making a tv show.