Introducing the United Federation of Style! Episode 1: Mudd's Women (Patreon)
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Hello there! I’ve got something new and nifty and a little different from my usual fare to share with you:
Earlier this year, my friend Samantha Rei and I recorded a little limited-run podcast miniseries called The United Federation of Style that’s all about the fashion of the future – specifically, about the weird wild fascinating fashions on Star Trek: The Original Series.
Samantha’s an incredibly knowledgeable fashion nerd (you may know her from her time on Project Runway) and an expert on clothing, hair, makeup, and cosplay – but she doesn’t know much about Star Trek; I’m a huge Star Trek nerd and I don’t know the first thing about how to dress myself. We selected seven great episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series and then picked apart the outfits, gossiped about the troubled behind-the-scenes scramble to create Star Trek back in the sixties, and of course we get a little giddy about the slashy will-they won’t-they sexual tension between Kirk and Spock.
We’ll be releasing the show in seven episodes here on Patreon, starting today and continuing for the next six weeks. I hope you enjoy listening to this fun mashup of pop culture, style, and queer-eyeing the Enterprise as much as we enjoyed recording it! (Update: Episode 1 of UFoS is now publicly available for anyone to listen! The other episodes will stay Patron-exclusive for now.)
This week, we’re kicking things off with “Mudd’s Women,” a goofy story in which the Enterprise picks up a scheming entrepreneur and some mysterious women who harbor an intriguing (and, because this is Star Trek we’re talking about, a weirdly sexy) secret. Though the character Mudd is a bit of a womanizer, in real life he was played by gay actor Roger C. Carmel – just one of many queer twists and turns we’ll encounter as we gallivant through the series.
Next week: “The Menagerie,” featuring brain aliens, bra trees, and a space chicken.