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OMG the women’s boots have no heels!!!! You could actually run in those things!

Diverse cast AND sensible footwear! A girl could hardly ask for more…

that gold stripe on the thigh looks like a zipper. is that… are those… pockets? 

This is such a tiny detail but it makes me so damn happy but look at the shoes. The women and men’s shoes are the same!  There are no heels!  Even Voyager and DS9 gave the women shoes with a heel.  Even Wonder Woman, movie of my heartface, gave Diana fucking wedges which makes no goddamn sense.  But not here!  The shoes are the same!  No heel in in sight!  I fucking love this show already.

@bikiniarmorbattledamage

Here’s why it’s a big deal when female uniforms in Star Trek have the same principles applied as male ones. 

Basically, the franchise’s record in that regard is mixed at best and the reboot films were a pretty big step backwards, even when ignoring the double standard in how female uniforms were cut.

~Ozzie

you know I get that this is some sort of huge culture debate and all, but tbh, if there was a Starfleet, and if I was in it, and if I had healthy and fit legs (and why wouldn’t I with the medicine hopefully being so much better than now), I would LOVE to wear the mini skirt version of the uniform, and it would make me feel powerful, sexy, confident, and yes, feminine, and I see absolutely NOTHING wrong with that or with the fact that all of those things might be potentially acknowledged by other people. Shouldn’t we be moving past the times when women needed to behave and dress like men to be accepted as leaders? Shouldn’t we be able to wear whatever the hell we want and still be taken seriously? I mean if we were in the 23d century or whatever.

side note: love the Discovery boots. love the uniform, too.

I take your point, but I think it’s less about mini skirts being too feminine and therefore wrong, and much more about the fact that women were given only those options that were sexually appealing: heels, miniskirts or slinky bodysuits.

Ignoring the practical issues for a second (after all, covering up isn’t just about aesthetics, it’s also about protection from the sun and other elements), the fact that the vast majority of Star Trek’s leading ladies have worn sexually appealing uniforms has nothing to do with the futuristic embrace of female empowerment, but rather much more to do with 20th and 21st century appeal to the male gaze.

Concerning the practical side of things, if we take what women wear on active duty on a U.S. Navy (or really any other country where women are permitted to serve) ship, you will find them dressed in trousers and flat shoes. This is the service khaki uniform (or alternatively summer whites) and it’s designed this way to be practical for everyday use as well as in emergencies. After all, no-one wants to skin a knee or roll an ankle under pressure.

Am I concerned that we dress women like men and the reverse is almost never true? Yeah, I am. (TNG has one shining moment of a male extra wearing the miniskirt.) But in the same way I think kilts are awesome but impractical for active service on a contemporary ship, I think miniskirts are likewise, now and in the future. Especially when we consider that background female characters and extras HAVE worn the practical uniforms in the past (so we know women are allowed to!) but this has been largely untrue for female lead characters (or those seen most frequently by male heterosexual viewers).