I have been puzzling over the gender of the synthesised voice that is going to provide the narration for the film. The question was how does it change the reading of that voice depending on the gender. What are the implications of each choice?

I worried that if the voice was male then it would seem like I had not considered the choice, it was male because I am male, science is male, men explore.

I worried that if it was female then it would sexualise the object, not was female because ships and car are female, objects.

Watching a film created by one of my students that presented a montage of feminists speaking about the need to keep addressing issues of representation I came to my solution.

The voice will be male, and the character will call out the decision in the film. The voice is male because in the early 21st century a male voice has more power still.

I’m not sure how elegant this solution is but I feel it fits with some of the other questions in the film.