Switching between Voyager & TOS rewatches, I find myself struck by how far gender discourse hadn't come in 30 years. *So* much reductive thinking: about women, about relationships, about masculinity.

But it's the writers, not the generation. (TNG & DS9 were between them, & much better!)

Every generation has had people who see us all as people... and people who can't imagine drama outside crude stereotypes.

Who was the first writer you remember really *getting* a different human point of view?