Today, the tenets of Star Trek include Starfleet as the military and exploratory organization that the USS Enterprise and every other starship belongs to, and the greater body Starfleet serves, the United Federation of Planets. The Federation is the vast interstellar alliance of worlds co-founded by United Earth.
It’s hard to imagine modern Star Trek without Starfleet or the Federation, but neither of those concepts existed until later in Star Trek: The Original Series season 1.
The back half of Star Trek: The Original Series season 1 named Starfleet Command and introduced the United Federation of Planets, which were both retcons that became crucial and fundamental aspects of
Starfleet Command was officially named in Star Trek: The Original Series season 1, episode 20, “Court Martial.” Before this, early Star Trek episodes were inconsistent in what organization the Starship Enterprise represented.
“Space Fleet,” “Space Command,” and the “United Earth Space Probe Agency” were among the names used before Starfleet was established.
From then on, the governing bodies Captain Kirk and Starship Enterprise represented were settled, and those retcons became canon for the next six decades as
Starfleet Command and the United Federation of Planets came to be thanks to writer and producer Gene L. Coon, one of the greatest and relatively unsung heroes of
In his book,
Watching the first half of Star Trek: The Original Series
season 1 is fascinating as the show gradually figures itself out, and sometimes contradicts itself. Once the retcons of Starfleet and the Federation were defined, Star Trek was on solid footing to become the beloved, eternal franchise that has lasted 60 years and counting.
“RHOSLC” star Bronwyn Newport got candid about her marriage to Todd Bradley in the latest episode of season 6.
After opening up to Whitney Rose about being blindsided by a fan claiming to have seen Bradley looking at pictures of another woman, fans had Newport’s back.“I love that Whitney and Bronwyn are having this conversation about agreements in their marriages. I think more married women should be honest about their [marital] agreements, instead of cosplaying a monogamous couple, while it looks like he cheats and you stay,” a viewer posted on X.
Another tweeted, “Todd is making Bronwyn miserable. She wishes her husband was faithful and supported her. At this point she’s just putting on a brave face. I hope she gets the courage and coin to leave his wind-breaking [expletive].”
One fan predicted, “I really think Bronwyn coming on this show was for her to make a path for divorce.”
After Britani Bateman alleged that Meredith Marks’ husband, Seth Marks, was having an affair, Newport got real about her own marriage to Bradley.
During a sit-down with Whitney, Newport admitted, “I don’t know if you’ve seen on Twitter or not, but people are accusing Todd of getting caught on a plane cheating on me.”
She recalled, “I land in Salt Lake to a mess on Twitter. While Todd was on his flight to New York, someone caught him looking at photos of women on his phone.”
Newport said that she confronted Bradley about the leaked photos and made him sleep in a hotel that night.
However, she did admit that if her husband had expressed wanting to see other people, she would have been open to it.
“Look, I don’t wanna be done with Todd. I wanna evolve with Todd, and I need him to evolve with me,” she told Whitney.
Whitney, who is married to an older man as well, also alluded to her and Justin Rose having an arrangement.
“I went through this with Justin, because we have a lot of friends that live in different lifestyles. And a lot of my friends have different agreements. Obviously, with our age difference, we’ve talked about it a lot,” the beauty brand founder shared.
She went on to say that there were times she didn’t think her marriage to Justin was going to work, so she had wandering eyes, and her husband did as well.
Whitney did make sure to point out that she and Justin did not have an open relationship, to dispel any possible rumors that might come out.
As two of the youngest women on “RHOSLC” married to older men, Newport and Whitney have a lot in common.
After her conversation with Newport, Whitney shared with Bravo, “I love that I have Bronwyn to relate. To have Bronwyn to talk to is really cool, because not everyone understands what that dynamic is like.”
Whitney added, “She has a much bigger age difference than I do. She deals with a whole other level of interesting-ness.”
Despite her past issues with Justin, the “RHOSLC” star said, “I feel like he raised me in a way. It’s like I spent my entire life married. I wouldn’t change it. Like, I don’t know if I could be married to someone younger than me.”