Question 8`

Question 8`

Perform a critical gender analysis on the clip of the scene from Star Trek Voyager. Respond to the following prompts about the scene:

Total response should be about a paragraph.

The clip from Star Trek Voyager features a chief engineer (a mixed race woman) who must decide how to solve a warp core problem (the warp core allows the star ship to travel faster than the speed of light making space travel possible).

How is gender depicted in the scene? How are ideas about men and women upheld? subverted? Include a clear example from the clip.

Why is gender depicted in these ways?

What needs to change in order for women to be included and encouraged to excel in STEM fields? How is Science Fiction a way to imagine this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIuUEwat6aM