Anika and Liz put their hair up and settle in to discuss the most pressing topic of our time — hairstyles in Star Trek.
We talked for so long that we wound up splitting this into a two-parter, which is PEAK Antimatter Pod, but in this first half, we discuss…
- Janice Rand, Marie Antoinette and Sabrina Carpenter
- Pavel Chekov, The Monkees and appealing to girls
- WASP beauty standards, “professionalism” and Deanna Troi
- Tasha Yar and the changing meanings of short hair on women since 1987
- “I’m sorry, I’m thinking of Reagan again, and it makes me angry.”
- Beverly’s hair is always changing, but without much intentionality behind it
- Sisko’s hair tells a story (sometimes that story is about racism)
- Kira’s “busy suburban mother of a toddler” hair