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Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
202. Hair Trek (part 1)
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Anika and Liz put their hair up and settle in to discuss the most pressing topic of our time -- hairstyles in Star Trek.
We talked for so long that we wound up splitting this into a two-parter, which is PEAK Antimatter Pod, but in this first half, we discuss...
- Janice Rand, Marie Antoinette and Sabrina Carpenter
- Pavel Chekov, The Monkees and appealing to girls
- WASP beauty standards, "professionalism" and Deanna Troi
- Tasha Yar and the changing meanings of short hair on women since 1987
- "I'm sorry, I'm thinking of Reagan again, and it makes me angry."
- Beverly's hair is always changing, but without much intentionality behind it
- Sisko's hair tells a story (sometimes that story is about racism)
- Kira's "busy suburban mother of a toddler" hair
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