David Benfell, Ph.D. (he/him/his)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://startrek.website/u/ValueSubtracted" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ValueSubtracted</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemmy.world/u/cybervseas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cybervseas</span></a></span> </p><p>By such standards, the Original Series (<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TOS</span></a>) seems positively regressive. I don't mean to defend this, but I'm guessing that, at the time, it was perceived that Enterprise needed to fit into that regression.</p>