I just finished Nana Visitor’s book. What a fascinating read. Looking at Star Trek from a woman’s perspective, both Visitor’s, and the many women she interviewed.

It’s a book I actually wish was about five times thicker: you can feel the hours of interview that -didn’t- make the pages. I would have loved to hear more from many of the women she talked to.

It’s a hopeful book, though I did learn about Visitors traumatic sexual assault via this book, which I had never known about previously; a content warning of sorts.

As someone who was a child in the 90s, Visitor’s stories of Hollywood of the 90s are totally believable and yet horrifying. One of the through lines of the book is the way in which you sometimes cannot see the wrongs within which you swim. I have a few inklings about what we’ll say about 2025, but I wonder what we will see with more clarity in 2055.