TOS skirts.

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨HubertManne@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨startrek@startrek.website⁩

So I have been seeing tos reruns and im just boggled by the skirts. Its like anime fan service as you get glimpses of starfleet standard issue panties. Im sitting here thinking. How did I not notice how short they were as a young boy growing up. Like I knew you saw a lot of leg and they were short but feels like wow seeing it now. My best guess is given broadcast resolution back in the day and having a tv under 20 inches and the fuzzyness of analogue rabit ears. Maybe it was not so noticable. Now im seeing it though on HD broadcast to a 90 inch screen and its like. yowzaa!! Seriously its like a live action anime.

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rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
There’s a quote from Nichelle Nichols’ autobiography Beyond Uhura: Start Tell and Other Memories that pops up a lot in discussions about the TOS skirts:

In later years, especially as the women’s movement took hold in the seventies, people began to ask me about my costume. Some thought it “demeaning” for a woman in the command crew to be dressed so sexily. It always surprised me because I never saw it that way. After all, the show was created in the age of the miniskirt, and the crew women’s uniforms were very comfortable. Contrary to what many may think today, no one really saw it as demeaning back then. In fact, the miniskirt was a symbol of sexual liberation. More to the point, though, in the twenty-third century, you are respected for your abilities regardless of what you do or do not wear.

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MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Yeah, that’s probably one of the reasons some complain so much about New Trek and miss the “good ol’ days”… women aren’t as sexualized anymore as they were back then.

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