At various stages of TNG's development, the Enterprise's resident teen genius was going to be Leslie Crusher -- a girl. Anika and Liz wonder what it would have been like to have a girl STEM genius on television in 1987. Would she have been well-written? Would audiences have hated her as much as Wesley? Would she have inspired girls of our generation to become engineers?
We also talk about similar characters and significant female characters in other media, including...
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114. Able-Bodied Writing (Picard 2.09 and 2.10)
113. Riot Grrrl Borg (PIC 2.07 and 2.08)
112. Thanks, I Hate It (One specific subplot of PIC 2.07)
111. A Really Amazing Earthquake (Picard 2.06)
110. A Girl-Shaped Motivation (PIC 2.05)
109. Picardsplaining (PIC 2.01-2.04)
108. Oh Well, Star Trek (Disco 4.13)
107. Pondering the Orb (Disco 4.12)
106. Anthropology Speedrun (Disco 4.11)
105. The Fourth Doctor Walks Into A Ridley Scott Film (Disco 4.10)
104. A Fungible Greg (Disco 4.09)
103. Klingons! At the Disco! (Disco 4.08)
102. Everybody Lives! (Prodigy 1.10)
101. Save the Cat(ian) (Prodigy 1.09)
100. There’s Coffee In That Space Cloud (Prodigy 1.08)
99. Delta Quadrant Girlboss (Prodigy 1.07)
98. The Win Scenario (Prodigy 1.06)
97. How Do You Solve A Problem Like Ruon Tarka? (Disco 4.07)
96. There’s Coffee In That Void (Disco 4.06)
95. The Tragedy of Darth Greg the Wise (Disco 1.05)
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