{"id":538,"date":"2013-04-01T13:26:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T21:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/?p=538"},"modified":"2013-04-01T13:26:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T21:26:13","slug":"another-star-trek-into-darkness-trailer-and-oh-look-its-a-nearly-naked-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Another Star Trek Into Darkness Trailer – and oh look, it’s a nearly naked woman!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve made it no secret that I am going to see the new Star Trek<\/strong> movie for one reason and one only – Benedict Cumberbatch as the film’s antagonist. My fangirling of BC has not diminished these last several months since I first caught him in Sherlock<\/strong> and it shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, I wouldn’t bother. I found the first film full of ridiculous (Sure, any Cadet just out of school goes on to Captain a Starship – awesome!) Beyond the plotholes and the fact Vulcan’s are as good as extinct as a race, I also didn’t agree with the reboots of the characters. Neither the new Kirk or Spock embody the complexities that made the characters so fascinating in the original series. While I like a good summer blockbuster as much as the next person, I thought they could have done more. In my mind, they capitalized on the Star Trek<\/strong> brand without respecting what made it so nifty in the first place.<\/p>\n

But again, Benedict Cumberbatch, so I’ve probably watched the trailers more than would be considered normal. And the more I watched, the more some things imprinted in my brain – namely the way women are portrayed.<\/p>\n

In the first trailer (you can find it in a previous post of mine) you saw two instances of women. One was Uhura kissing Spock (we see her face and only the back of his head – probably wouldn’t know it was Spock if you weren’t familiar with the first movie and knew they were put together romantically in it), and the other was a blonde woman screaming. All the other scenes were men doing manly things like firing guns and jumping off skyscrapers and cliffs and looking very determined.<\/p>\n

Now here comes the newest trailer (at the end of this post for your enjoyment) and I was curious. How were the women going to be portrayed now? By this time I’ve seen a few articles, and the actress who plays Uhura has made a statement that she gets to fire guns and be tough and proactive – would I see any of that here?<\/p>\n

What I saw – Uhura talking about how they were all going to be killed and in general being a wet blanket to all these manly men who wanted to shoot things and get vengeance…<\/p>\n

… and we see the blonde woman in her underwear.<\/p>\n

This is how women are portrayed in the second trailer.<\/p>\n

Blech.<\/p>\n

The blond woman, BTW, is Dr. Carol Marcus. Carol Marcus was originally introduced in The Wrath of Khan<\/em> as a former lover of Kirk, yes, but also the scientist behind the creation of the Genesis project – you know, that little project that essentially can BRING A DEAD PLANET BACK TO LIFE. So it’s not like the woman is smart or anything.<\/p>\n

Look, I get it. I know showing somebody is smart is tough in a 2 minute trailer. I get that she’s Kirk’s love interest in this movie. I get it that it’s a summer blockbuster.<\/p>\n

But this is still wrong. If there had been one quick-cut of a woman which was not either love interest, helpless bystander, or nagging worrier I wouldn’t feel this heavy WTF sensation. This is a universe where women are supposed to be strong, and the fanbase, while I don’t doubt it skews male, is far-and-away from predominantly male. And why do women like Star Trek? Because it has shown itself to have strong female characters.<\/p>\n

Though you wouldn’t know it from these trailers – and honestly, that was one of my problems with the first movie too. Uhura was under-developed spectacularly and most came into play as Spock’s girlfriend.<\/p>\n

But hey, enjoy Benedict Cumberbatch as the villain. Any other BC fangirls out there?<\/p>\n