It's our 200th episode! A victory for quantity over quality and our small, chill audience of friends! To celebrate, Anika and Liz are talking about Star Trek: Open A Channel - A Woman's Trek, Nana Visitor's book about women in Star Trek.  Open A Channel is much more substantial than just girl power feminism. How Lucille Ball was erased from Star Trek's narrative The throughline of mentorship We gently interrogate Nana Visitor's second wave biases We also have two separate (but related) rants about Janice Rand and the "glorified secretary" concept Hair Trek Marina Sirtis versus … a lot of people Bodyshaming from fandom. "The idea that fat people should not exist in your utopia is really horrible and RFK Jr coded." The editorial decision to exclude Michelle Hurd