*snerk* You may interrogate the text from whatever perspective you like! (Well, within reason. If you tell me this is really a story about the hardships of dilithium mining, I will probably disagree.)
But yes, I had the male-gaze thought in mind, though my conception was more that she leaves a narrative like this -- an essentially female, fan-authored narrative -- and goes back into Trek continuity (basically male-authored and male-controlled) and becomes, again, a character who is acted upon rather than a character with much agency.
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Date: 2009-05-23 09:47 pm (UTC)But yes, I had the male-gaze thought in mind, though my conception was more that she leaves a narrative like this -- an essentially female, fan-authored narrative -- and goes back into Trek continuity (basically male-authored and male-controlled) and becomes, again, a character who is acted upon rather than a character with much agency.