Holy hell, the miniskirts. I know it was progressive for its time, women’s lib, etc. But: Female officers bending over console, butt swell hanging out. Almost every episode, over sexualized women needlessly emotional, constantly falling into male arms. Barely clothed, wisps of fabric. Spock saying that Kirk’s alter ego trying to rape his female officer made him interesting.
I’m at episode 14, 1st season. Is the rest of the series like this?
That said, there’s a hard, pure science to it I haven’t seen in later star treks. Can see how people then would find it fascinating. Also gets deep, in a weighty, high drama way.
Roddenberry was very progressive and big on equal rights. But his attitude toward sexy woman was yes please.
William Ware Theiss was the costume designer for tos. Here is what he thought of the costumes.
Theiss Titillation Theory:
The attractiveness of clothing on women is not really dependent on the amount of skin shown - rather, it depends on the degree to which the outfit appears to be on the verge of falling off.
As far as the sci-fi concepts tos had a lot of big name scifi writers doing one off scripts. The later shows kept to in house writing teams. So tos is a lot more varied in both ideas and tone than any other Star Trek.
This leads to a lot of wierd inconstancies that you wouldn’t see in any other trek. Like the Greek gods were absolutely real gods who just left to go to another planet. There is another planet that worships Jesus.
It’s also fun to try to guess what episodes were done simply because they has access to the costumes from other productions at the studio. Nazi, gangster, native American, etc.