Tanya Feldman, Jamala Henderson, Me and Jarrah Hodge.
Our panel, “Is Star Trek a Feminist Utopia?” at Geek Girl Con in Seattle is getting a lot of mentions on websites and blogs all around the net. I thought I would post some of the coolest mentions here. Feel free to link me to others as you find them. The overwhelming feeling I’m getting is that people wished they could have discussed Star Trek with us for hours, but they think that we didn’t give enough attention to Enterprise. Very true. There were only 3 of us, plus one moderator. We each thought we would cover a series. I had TOS, Jamala took on TNG, Tanya and Jarrah tag-teamed Voyager and Deep Space Nine. I know we didn’t give enough coverage to the movies, but there was mention of them. I spoke about First Contact and I think there were other mentions too. The main thing we learned from this experience is that we could have a panel on any one of these areas and it would take up nearly an hour or more. We did our best, but the time ran out so quickly. We mostly wanted to make sure we had enough time to hear your thoughts. Sorry we rushed through our discussion of Into Darkness, but I’m not sorry we disliked it! Can’t wait until Star Trek Las Vegas where I will, hopefully, be moderating a similar discussion in August.
Some of our fabulous mentions:
http://mythcreants.com/blog/the-best-quotes-from-geekgirlcon/
http://gothmaureen.tumblr.com/post/64743272814/geekgirlcon-2013
http://blogs.uoregon.edu/4dbio/2013/10/20/geek-girl-con-2013-day-1/
http://majorspoilers.com/2013/10/24/conventions-day-geek-girl-con/
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