The women of original series Star Trek occasionally played crucial roles in the ship’s functioning or in the progress of an episode’s narrative, but mostly they were like everyone else on Star Trek – focused on the actions and well-being of the Enterprise and of the three major protagonists at the heart of her crew: Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. Women weren’t present in Star Trek to reveal something about themselves. They were present to reveal something about humanity, the five-year mission, and the men who were the driving force behind it. And they were never more revealing than when they used to date one of those men. In the first season of ST:TOS, the series introduced viewers to figures from each of the trio’s romantic past.
[Your ex-girlfriend. In space]