Violations

The Ullians who are visiting the Enterprise have a unique talent for helping people retrieve lost memories. When that power is exploited, though, it’s a dangerous and invasive procedure that leaves Deanna Troi, Dr. Crusher and Commander Riker in comas. Who is to blame for the psychic assault? Find out when “Violations” got into the Mission Log. You did a really good job with this one. Very respectful. Thank you. The one thing I think would have added to the conversation is a discussion of how often rape is used in reference to female characters. Tasha and the rape gangs. This is not Deanna’s first assault. Forcibly impregnated while Riker is angry about who the father is. 😡 This is the best they’ve dealt with it, but the writers in all the series do have many rape episodes for the women. Rape is serious, but the framing here of women being raped is an ugly one. It bears thinking about as a whole within the Star Trek universe. I have only watched this episode once. I don’t think I could’ve done what you did in preparation for the show. Hard topic. Great job. 🐝 I’ve seen it a few times and it’s totally forgetable. The writers, I imagine mostly feminists, love talking about rape so I’m pretty sure there are more episodes that are allusions of women being raped that we just don’t think of as such. For example, the episode mentioned where Troi and Riker are abducted by the ferengi. Many feminists would likely consider that a rape episode even though most people wouldn’t. Wait, so are you anti feminists – because you use the word like a derogatory term? Or are you pro feminism, because you take up the argument about how women appear to be subjugated by men on Star Trek? Maybe if you were less angry at whatever it is you’re angry about, you’d realise that we’re all in this together, and from what you wrote it seems you hate all forms of subjugation. I think most people would agree with you on that one. I’m definitely anti-feminist. And I am not angry other than at all the sexism and such that feminists push while saying they’re not sexist. What you seem to not understand here is that I’m pointing out that a feminist would call things patriarchy and rape that aren’t. The situations themselves may be terrible, or not, in themselves, but there are two issues that arise… In one case they aren’t there and as such you are misunderstanding reality which you really should fix about yourself, OR in the other case they are there and they are pushing myths that warp people’s perceptions of the world. Both of which cause massive problems. I didn’t think Lwaxana was raped in “Menage a Trois” . I felt like she was taking one for the team to seduce the Ferengi. See what I’m saying? It’s not rape, but feminists will say it is. And they certainly don’t hold men and women to the same standards and this is why a man and a woman can get equally black out drunk, have consensual sex, and the man is guilty of rape and the woman is a victim of rape. Even though the same thing happened to both of them. This is the stuff the feminism promotes and why it’s laughable when they say it’s about equality. I’ve always considered Devernali Raal in The Price to be the archetypal Star Trek rapist. Only, that doesn’t count (we say), because she decided that she was into it. How can we know she was ever even attracted to Raal in the first place? That might just have been a “strong suggestion” he just implanted, Spock-style, in her head the moment they first touched minds. That certainly seems to have been the case with Raal’s “travelling companion”, since he is able to MAKE HER LEAVE when he just decides to abandon that particular concubine in favour of picking up Troi and then going directly round to stalk her at her work, play with her hair without permission, grope her face and scalp and get to work on getting her drunk. It’s not that any of those other psychics tried to force themselves on Troi, mentally or physically, it’s the fact that they used b