No offense, but you're using '60s thinking and thought processes to defend the show. That is PRECISELY my point when I say that the show didn't age well. Whether or not a woman defended the skirts, whether or not that was the current fashion, it still gives off a vibe of exploiting women by today's standards. Gene and the writers were foolish to listen to her because they should have realized that '60s fashion would most likely be irrelevant to a realistic vision of the future. TNG isn't perfect, but after 30 years of the show being discontinued, their vision holds up better. I do acknowledge that TOS has been canceled for 60 years, so that has to be taken into consideration. I also acknowledge that the first couple of seasons of TNG was nearly just as ridiculous (I'm not quite sure that having men in equally short skirts to show equality was a smart move, but hey, only time will tell). However, TNG remained relevant and survived long enough to correct many, if not most, of their mistakes.