“A society ruled by women. This perfect condition existed as long ago as a thousand orbits, when our planet, Medusa, belonged to the solar system of Proxima Centauri. These were the golden years of our history. Led by the Grand Council of Women, we had created a world of intellect, of leisure, and of advanced technology, with menial tasks and…some others…were patiently performed by our men. Then came the great comet, Dionysus.”
“The series presents a “battle of the sexes” and role reversal scenario in which male protagonists must escape servitude to women of an advanced civilization. The planet Medusa, home to a highly evolved and technologically advanced humanoid race, was already ruled by its women when a rogue comet knocked it out of orbit. Drifting through space, the planet’s surface became uninhabitable, and the inhabitants survived by building underground cities. The series begins with Medusa’s entry into Earth’s solar system. At first heartened to discover Earth, the Medusans are disappointed to learn that the human men are dominant there. Two Medusan men escape by stealing a ship and flying to Earth. Despite a successful escape, the two are pursued by the Medusan security forces. When the Medusans fail to re-capture the two men, they bring two human hostages—a man and a woman—back with them to their home planet. The series’ 13 episodes concern the two groups’ attempts to adapt to life on the different planets while brokering an exchange for the hostages. In the series finale, the Medusans’ ship is pursued by another spacecraft, this one belonging to an alien race that has hunted Medusans in the past. Despite their technology and the antagonism they displayed throughout the series, the Medusans prove incapable of actually fighting an enemy, and only the intervention of a Medusan ship flown by an Earth man defeats the enemy. The saved Medusans return home, likely with an altered opinion of men.”
Find me those thirteen episodes.
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I’m sorry, but I refuse to believe that an advanced civilization ruled entirely by women would require an Earth man from the 1970’s to save them. CATEGORICALLY REFUSE.
I do, however, desperately want to read the novelization. I suspect it is pretty terrible.
think I would hate the show, and love the fanfic where it’s an Earth woman who saves the day with like, the wisdom of a woman who’s had to fight men and male domination her entire life to stay sane.
And then once the enemy is dead or reconciled, she gently introduces feminism and equality to the society of Medusa. Back on Earth, the women band together to hack away at the patriarchy in her honor.
Meanwhile she falls in love with both a brave Medusan hunk and a brilliant Medusan princess, and they have a healthy triad relationship that works.
…well, that’s another one for my Yuletide requests, then.
Searching for “Star Maidens torrent” brings up a Pirate Bay result. I can’t check it at work, but it’s probably worth trying.
Not that I would ever download TV from a torrent. As we all know, downloading pirated TV is exactly the same as stealing food from starving children, which is to say it’s nearly as bad as making a mix CD for someone. Even if the show in question is forty years old and not available by any other means.
You’ll need a torrent client, I don’t know which ones are any good currently. Be warned that torrent sites & clients tend to have a lot of porn ads.
I would never befoul myself by frequenting a private tracker, and will most definitely not report back in… *checks* 2h47m.
And furthermore, IF I ever undertook such mischief, I could never ever be persuaded to share the ill-gotten proceeds of my crimes.
If some hypothetical, evil-minded person were trying this out, they might be able to test it faster if they told their torrent client to just download the first episode for now. Also, they should use a virus scanner on the downloaded files, since they’d be associating with terrible criminals.
And probably the simplest way for them to share their immorally acquired content would be to just keep seeding the torrent and point other people towards it; anything else would probably be pretty hard on their bandwidth.
Weirdly enough, I’ve never got a virus in years of um, being a perfectly law-abiding citizen of Buccaneer Cove and elsewhere. What wretched hives of scum and villainy do people usually hang out in that getting viruses seems like a major threat?
In my experience (of interviewing the criminal element for research purposes only), the number of people looking to good-faith share the desired media outnumbers those super-double-villains seeking to do honorless harm to their peers. So any place where many thieves are found is at much lower risk than, say, a torrent with only one or two machines seeding.
That makes sense!
Star Maidens seems to have all of one seeder, so I think I’m going to stand by my virus scanning recommendation, at least in this instance.
I haven’t actually had any problems [because of course I never pirate stuff], but one hears periodic tales of such issues, so I figure warning people is probably not harmful and might well be helpful. In case they for some reason ignore my sincere and stern warnings about how evil media piracy is.
To answer to that question, one must think like a criminal.
As thought experiment, I would say that a experienced cyber-thief would choose qbittorrent as his torrent client. I’m told that it is open source but easy to use, lightweight, and, most importantly, does not try to install spyware like most popular ‘freeware’ clients.
I would also be very careful to click on any download link on a torrent tracker, especially the most visible ones, preferring to click on the so-called ‘magnet link’, which launches the torrent directly on the client.
Hypothetically if one wanted to find a hypothetical torrent client I hear Deluge is free and open source and not plagued with hypothetical porn ads.
I see what you did there, @Absotively.
Is this softcore? Please let it be softcore.
That was my first thought, as well as all the thoughts afterwards.
The initial voiceover reminded me of (accent notwithstanding) the beginning of my favourite ever softcore, Score by Radley Metzger, featuring a bisexual plotline and HOLY SHIT THe ENTIRE MOVIE IS ON YOUTUBE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD8hOJoOGtk
SCORE is one of Radley Metzgar’s better movies, largely because it was based on an off-Broadway play, and written by Jerry Douglas, who’s written both mainstream Hollywood and award-winning gay porn screenplays.
I am absolutely loving this Seventies Space Roman look the women have going on. Note to self: new aesthetic.
“the menial tasks, and … [EXTREMELY MEANINGFUL PAUSE] …. some others”
There are two copies of the DVD on Ebay right now, plus a couple that only play in German.
This sounds like the kind of well-thought-out space gender politics that TNG captured in the acclaimed episode, “Angel One”.
Oh god, Angel One, why were you so cringingly awful?
Someone: “But what if WOMEN were in charge of this society?”
Riker: ::shrugs::
Someone: "But what if WOMEN were in charge of this society?"
Riker: ::shrugs::
The initial voiceover reminded me of (accent notwithstanding) the beginning of my favourite ever softcore, Score by Radley Metzger, featuring a bisexual plotline and HOLY SHIT THe ENTIRE MOVIE IS ON YOUTUBE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD8hOJoOGtk
Let’s cast the remake/Darkplace-style show based on this concept!
The Medusan men would be played by Mitchell & Webb.
Boom!
Roasted!
WTG, @MissSusanST.