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Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie: Nyota Uhura

So I've rambled at great length in the past about why I loved Uhura so much in the Star Trek reboot, and those reasons still apply. I have a lot of affection for TOS Uhura, but the movie allowed her to be so much more than she could on a show airing in the sixties.

From the moment she rolled her eyes in amusement at Kirk's "smooth" lines at that bar, I was kind of in love. There were plenty of other aspects of the character that reinforced my initial spontaneous like: her following of subspace transmissions for fun and knowledge of obscure Romulan dialogues (languages geeks FTW!), her being the first to understand Kirk's technobabbly exposition on the alternate universes and what we saw of her relationship with Spock, but what I loved the most about her throughout the film was her assertiveness and how utterly unimpressed she was by Kirk's attempts at flirtation and just...Kirk, really (which is why her “captain” minus the sarcasm at the end was one of the little awesome moments of the crew coming together-he earned that captain from her). And on a shallow note, the woman can rock the classic uniform like nobody's business.

As for my thoughts about the vitriol and hostility a lot of fandom directs at her, well, I've been over that in great detail in the Uhura post linked above, and since this meme is about celebrating female characters, I won't start with my thoughts on how fandom treats certain female characters, both compared to male characters and other ~~sexually~~ “acceptable” female character types.

At the end of the day, fuck that noise. Uhura's awesome, and so's her skirt.

Day One: Favorite lead female character
Day Two: Favorite supporting female character
Day Three: A female character you hated but grew to love
Day Four: A female character you relate to
Day Five: Favorite female character on a male-driven show
Day Six: Favorite female-driven show
Day Seven: A female character that needs more screen time
Day Eight: Favorite female character in a comedy show
Day Nine: Favorite female character in a drama show
Day Ten: Favorite female character in a scifi/supernatural show
Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show
Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie
Day Thirteen: Favorite female character in a book
Day Fourteen: Favorite older female character
Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc
Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character
Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character
Day Eighteen: Favorite non-warrior female character
Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character
Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist
Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates
Day Twenty-Thre: Favorite female platonic relationship
Day Twenty-Four: Favorite female romantic relationship
Day Twenty-Five: Favorite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship
Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)
Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for
Day Twenty-Eight: Favorite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.)
Day Twenty-Nine: A female-centric fic rec
Day Thirty: Whatever you'd like!