Oooh, yes! With Head of Security/Tactical Lt. Cmdr. Tasha Yar, at Helm/Ops Lt. Ro Laren, Chief Engineer Lt. Cmdr. Sarah MacDougal (ably assisted by Lt. B'Elanna Torres), Botany/Life Sciences Keiko Ishikawa (either a civilian or Ensign, depends on whether the positions are all filled by Starfleet personnel or keeping the mix of civilians that TNG established), and in Sickbay (in the Dr. M'Benga role) Dr. Katherine Pulaski - also keeping the McCoy/Spock dynamic going with Pulaski/Data sparring and snarking ;-)
Only guy on the Bridge - Data. In the Janice Rand role - Ensign Geordi LaForge. In the Lt. Kyle role - Myles O'Brien.
Why not? See how having a predominantly female main cast is an unthinkable dream, but having a predominantly male cast with three (maximum) females is the norm, and if we get a new female in, one of the original females has to go (Crusher for Pulaski, Yar for Worf - and swapping out an original female for a fan-favourite male from the predecessor series annoyed me, even though I like Worf, Kes for Seven)!
That's what annoyed me most about the Reboot Trek - whole new timeline, they even BLOW UP VULCAN (I have a strong opinion on this, as you may guess) and they - cut DOWN the number of female crew to Uhura because, psht! keeping track of all them wimmin in the original series was so confusing, I suppose.
Would it have killed them to make Pavel Chekov Polina Chekova, a cute little Russian girl genius? Or give us Lts. Chapel and Rand? If they could BLOW UP VULCAN AND KILL SPOCK'S MOTHER, it would have been a doddle to have more than ONE female on the Bridge.
This should be obligatory research for future screenwriters.
And if that doesn't work, send Mirror!Verse Uhura (who is OUR 'verse Uhura being badass all over the Mirrorverse) after 'em.
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Date: 2013-03-30 12:28 pm (UTC)Only guy on the Bridge - Data. In the Janice Rand role - Ensign Geordi LaForge. In the Lt. Kyle role - Myles O'Brien.
Why not? See how having a predominantly female main cast is an unthinkable dream, but having a predominantly male cast with three (maximum) females is the norm, and if we get a new female in, one of the original females has to go (Crusher for Pulaski, Yar for Worf - and swapping out an original female for a fan-favourite male from the predecessor series annoyed me, even though I like Worf, Kes for Seven)!
That's what annoyed me most about the Reboot Trek - whole new timeline, they even BLOW UP VULCAN (I have a strong opinion on this, as you may guess) and they - cut DOWN the number of female crew to Uhura because, psht! keeping track of all them wimmin in the original series was so confusing, I suppose.
Would it have killed them to make Pavel Chekov Polina Chekova, a cute little Russian girl genius? Or give us Lts. Chapel and Rand? If they could BLOW UP VULCAN AND KILL SPOCK'S MOTHER, it would have been a doddle to have more than ONE female on the Bridge.
This should be obligatory research for future screenwriters.
And if that doesn't work, send Mirror!Verse Uhura (who is OUR 'verse Uhura being badass all over the Mirrorverse) after 'em.
:-)