trekkiefeminist
At Star Trek Las Vegas Gwynyth Walsh, who played B’Etor (as well as Nimira in Voyager), told two stories about sexual harassment on set.
The first was about her first time filming on TNG. President Ronald Reagan was touring the set so Gene Roddenberry had come down. Barbara March, who played Lursa, was on the soundstage when Roddenberry came down in his wheelchair.
“Gene went up to Barbara and went, ‘Are those real?’” she said, miming that he poked Barbara March in the boobs. “Yes they are. Both of them,” Walsh reported.
Richard Arnold, who was a research consultant on TNG and worked closely with Roddenberry, said, “You honestly think he didn’t know?” He reported he and Roddenberry had been watching the dailies in his office, and “the second he saw the Duras sisters on the screen with those pushed-up fronts he turned to me and said, ‘Let’s go to the set’.”
So ew. Walsh also had a bad experience on Deep Space Nine:
“An actor said, ‘You know, your plastic surgeon did a really bad job; those don’t look real at all’. And I said, ‘Well, they are.’ And he didn’t believe me, so sometimes it isn’t nice on Star Trek sets…I forgot his name, which is surprising because I found it very upsetting.”
little-brisk
i am so, so glad these women feel able to tell these stories at last. and each time they do, they make it more possible for others to tell more stories. this history matters so much! women of trek, you are the raddest.
