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Kate Butler <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:10:57 +1100
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>> there is Captain Janeway who is very gutsy and respected, a female Vulcan
>> engineer and a female medical assistant but I wouldn't consider this an
>> unbiased representation of 51 per cent of the population.
>It's a female (half) KLINGON engineer, and the first officer "Number One,"
>in the pilot was Majel Barrett, and not as a Vulcan.

 I stand corrected, a little information is a dangerous thing! My point
still stands, though, about gender representation.

Kate

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Kate Butler
Department of Visual Communication
RMIT University, Australia
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