The Star Trek franchise doesn't value Women.

[logansrogue]

Shocking, I know. It's the sort of franchise where, after having characters like Uhura, Kheyler, Captain Janeway, Beverly FUCKING Crusher, that this sort of thing was left in the 60s with Gene's little habit of sleeping with every actress that came into the door for an audition. But nooOOOoooo. New Franchise! New Times! New OBJECTIFICATION OPPORTUNITIES!

I present to you - FRAT BOY STAR TREK SHIRTS!

http://starfleetacademystore.com/categories/14061

I wish I was kidding. I really wish I was, but these are specifically being sold as "Spring Break" t-shirts. One of them reads "Orion Slave Girls Gone Wild."

That's right. Slave Girls. FUCKING SLAVE GIRLS, YO. So not only are they making light of enslaving an unwilling woman into being an object of desire, they're framing it in the 21st Century corporatised Rape epidemic that is Girls Gone Wild.

And this is Star Trek. Supposedly inclusive. Supposedly forward thinking. This is supposed to be the show where in the future, anyone can be whatever they want to be, everyone has a chance, everyone can search the stars for adventure. It's why I watched it when I was a child. It's why I remained a fervent fan throughout years and years. Why I bought a buttload of merchandise. Star Trek was my first fandom, it was the first thing I wrote fan-fiction for. It was the optimistic future I was living to achieve by being a good and progressive person TODAY.

And they give us this? THIS IS NOT OKAY. I am going to do what I can to get these products pulled because this is NOT the Star Trek we should be supporting. IT IS NOT.

Comments

[hippiegal22.livejournal.com]

I always thought it was creepy that the Star Trek fans sexually idolize the Orion Slave Girls and the Star Wars fans drool over slave Leia.

Ick.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Well, I was happy about the fact that in the last movie, the Orion woman was actually IN Starfleet as a student, you know? She was a woman making decisions about her own love life herself, having fun at the Academy. Like, NOT A SLAVE.

[shantari.livejournal.com]

Slaves = Gone Wild --> *logical center in brain go poof*

[anarchicq.livejournal.com]

Maybe they're going wild by escaping?
*Wish*

[shantari.livejournal.com]

That would actually make sense. Can we have sense?

[meleth.livejournal.com]

"Orion Slave Girls Gone Wild" is, in fact, the nickname the Underground Resistance gave themselves before the successful uprising of 2315, in which the streets ran multi-hued with the vital fluids of the oppressors.

[asweetdownfall.livejournal.com]

Are they for real? D: D: WHAT IS THIS FUCKERY.

This is disgusting.

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

Oh, yuck. That's crappy, thank you for sharing the rage. I am going to write and complain >_<

Get your sick sexist rape culture out of my fandom, you jerks.

[mackenziex.livejournal.com]

.... So I'm the only woman here not offended by this tee-shirt? We're talking about the same chicks that took over the Enterprise in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, right? Green skin, dark hair, scanty clothes? Pheromone bombs that make men stupid? Dangerous enough to take down a Klingon Warrior while he's stunned stupid by her hotness?

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Honey, bewitching men with pheromones is a pretty way of taking their choice away. When you take away someone's choice in whether to have sex or not, it's rape.

And it's more the conflagration of Sex Slaves and young college women that pisses me off.

And unless you missed it, I got death threats and threats of violence in that comment wall for speaking up about this.

[mackenziex.livejournal.com]

I missed you getting death threats and threats of violence. Who should I be cussing at for doing that to you? (is pissed that people have threatened her friend)