Day Twelve: Female Character Meme

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.

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