Have you seen the new Star Trek movie? The one that is supposed to be a prequel to the original Trek?

I think it is awesome. Especially the part where Kirk is suffering side-effects of Bones’ effort to sneak him aboard the ship. And Scotty. And Chekov, or however it is spelled (is it a sign if I’m too lazy to visit my own IMDB link to fact-check?).

Anyway, that isn’t really the point of this post.  The point is actually that there is something about the beginning of the movie that is seriously irritating.  Like, really, script writers?

I can only think that they (the writers) were probably geeky male Trekkies, who have no understanding of the real world.

My issue: at the very beginning, there is a woman giving birth.  They are in space, so obviously they have the capability of interstellar travel and all of that, so WHY THE HELL IS THE WOMAN GIVING BIRTH THE NATURAL WAY?!

Why is she screaming and in pain and sweaty and ugly?  I mean, if they can use their nifty little transporter beams to transport people off of frickin’ planets over tens of thousands of miles, why can’t they just “beam” the little poop-machine out of the womb and save everyone all the trouble?  Especially mom, who is going to have to put up with the shit lovely child for the next 18 years or so.

Or why is there no other technology that far in the future to aid in child-birth?  Probably because it doesn’t “exist.”

Men never think about the important things.

And that’s why we shouldn’t let them set policy for women.  Because if fiction writers, who have the power of God, can’t get it right, then what chance mere mortals?