[matt-browne-sfw]

My comment it that portraying women has changed significantly. Let's just take Star Trek: TOS's Uhura with a minor role on the bridge but still a revolution in 1966. Then came TNG's Troi with a major role as the ship's counselor. Finally VOY with a female captain and her own way of leading the ship (not as a copy of earlier male captains).

More recent sci-fi series feature also more foolhardy fighters like Kara Thrace in BSG.

Often sci-fi reflects society projected 10 - 15 years into the future. But not necessarily more. Therefore Uhura did not captain a starship in a series made in 1966.