No secret that it's difficult to act differently out of your own frame of time but isn't that part of acting, too? People often lack fantasy but what I find mostly disturbing is that it seems so not well thought out when characters in SF behave as if they're in the 21st (rather 20th, actually) century.
Just recently I subscribed to A Prime though I don't like Bezos and the thought to make him even richer, but I wanted to see STP 3 before I die.
To my surprise there was no Deanna Troi but that old guy Riker, and, nearly at the end of the season, I finally saw her in E6 and 7, I guess - with a mini-role:
She was inserted on a small display as sort of "house wife" and mother, holding a new born. (I wasn't even sure if this was real, CGI or perhaps AI.)
That's when I thought "Oh, so actually nothing changed in the 24th century!" - husband is on his job, enjoying adventures while his wife takes care of the children and cooking.
I mean, who the hell writes that kind of scripts - for science fiction????
Ok, there are still women around who have a second, third or fourth degree significance in the play but hey - the main characters are still men and the dominance is clear.
What confuses me, is the lack of vision about a future society where we could expect some kind of modern, or at least more developed society than the one of today. Why wasn't Riker at home, holding his child while Troi on a trip in the nebula with the other guys and having fun?
What do you think?
I did point this out to Terry Matalas on stage in Las Vegas last year. It went down like a cup of hot sick.
Yes yes yes, absolutely the writing on season 3 for Troi left much to be desired. Unfortunately it’s done, might as well move on.
Well, there is the episode Haven, where Troi is assumed, by Captain Picard to be leaving Starfleet because she was getting married. So, even in that early episode it was assumed women went where their husband's went. The thing is, she's a Betazoid, which is a Matriarchal society. By this era, most Betazoids don't marry their bonded mate and the question is, was she actually bonded to Wyatt? I don't think she was, his family, including him, lived on Earth and they hardly knew each other. Deanna should be in command of her life and where her family lives, not the other way around or at least come to a compromise early in the situation, not later. Will should know what kind of family and culture he is marrying into and at least give Deanna some say in the power of the family structure and come to a compromise. IMHO, I think the writers really screwed up with the Betazoid Human (female Matriarch Male Patriarch) structure. Sometimes the Patriarchy just as to bow to the Matriarchy or everything just falls apart. Never underestimate the power of a woman, especially one that comes from a Matriarchal society. That's my opinion, at least.