Star Trek ‘s utopian vision for an equal society, especially in terms of gender equality, has always been a complicated aspect of its idealized vision. It’s true that the franchise has a legacy of beloved, nuanced female characters and has championed putting those characters in the spotlight over six decades of storytelling. But it’s equally true that Star Trek ‘s often conservative vision of women in leadership roles, as figures of desire, and as beholden to the stories of male characters has sat hand in hand with that feminist progressivism.

There are perhaps, however, few individual seasons of Star Trek from the past 60 years that reflect that dichotomy more than Strange New Worlds ‘ recently concluded third .

On paper, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds arguably has one

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