200. Performative Femininity

It's our 200th episode! A victory for quantity over quality and our small, chill audience of friends!

To celebrate, Anika and Liz are talking about Star Trek: Open A Channel - A Woman's Trek, Nana Visitor's book about women in Star Trek. 

• Open A Channel is much more substantial than just girl power feminism.
• How Lucille Ball was erased from Star Trek's narrative
• The throughline of mentorship
• We gently interrogate Nana Visitor's second wave biases
• We also have two separate (but related) rants about Janice Rand and the "glorified secretary" concept
• Hair Trek
• Marina Sirtis versus … a lot of people
• Bodyshaming from fandom. "The idea that fat people should not exist in your utopia is really horrible and RFK Jr coded."
• The editorial decision to exclude Michelle Hurd