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.

  • MadMadBunny@lemmy.caEnglish
    81·
    2 days 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.

    While back then TOS was considered crazy provocative and openminded at the time, it now registers as pretty cringe in today’s standards. Even TNG and Voyager are sometimes hard to watch.

    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      It wasn’t intended to be sexual, necessarily.

      Part of women’s lib was freedom from restrictive decency laws.

      It makes sense when you see what bathing suits used to look like.

      And the fact that police would enforce bathing suit rules at public beaches

      Star Trek was released in the 60s when the bikini and the miniskirt were very popular and countercultural, so modest clothes would have seemed anachronistic (well, not futuristic).

      Imagine a space burqa.

      • Albbi@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        But there was a guy in a skirt just as short as those worn in the original series. Right there in the opening scene of the first episode.

        • Coreworlder 🎲@dice.camp
          1·
          21 hours ago

          @Albbi Ah, the skant. I think Troi was the only main cast member to wear one and they didn’t survive past season 2 of TNG until Lower Decks (which was wall-to-wall packed with references to Trek history) brought them back.

        • HubertManne@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          I missed it but like she had this head band and the skirt was like layery. felt like it should have the big sucker and skipping like the old looeny toons.