At 09:08 PM 2/5/01 +0000, Una McCormack wrote:
Anyway, I thought this was all very interesting from the POV of B7. Not only do we have Travis coded as a usurper (according to these conventions) on account of being disabled, but the main oppressor is a woman. Is Blake's cause thus a disguised attempt to legitimize and restore patriarchal authority? Discuss.
Hardly disguised. I can't even *imagine* a more blatant bag of pernicious patriarchal propaganda than Blake, in the bilious "Bounty", bringing studly strongman Sarkoff back to resume his rigid regime on lovely lush Lindor, which had been on the very verge of liberation by the Federation, which as you have pointed out is fiercely female-friendly and desperately desirous of disabled do-gooders.
The only episodes *I* allow as ethically acceptable are "Pressure Point" and "Blake". -- For A Dread Time, Call Penny: http://members.tripod.com/~Penny_Dreadful/