It's...not. Shatner wrote in Star Trek Memories that the camera angles were blocked so that their lips never actually touched. Just google it, dude.
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Replying to @cereta @Nymphomachy
Even if thats true its not the point acting is fake but the message was real or are you npt emotionaly invested in a couple on a tv show if they dont actually have sex on set
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The message is that a Black woman and a white man kissing is a horrible violation of their free will that could only happen via alien mind control?
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That was not the point it could have just as easily been a white woman and it would not have changed the plot the fact that they gave a black woman the spot light on an equall bases with her peers of the time was a wonderful moment in history.
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I mean, I won't pretend a lot of fans like Whoopi Goldberg didn't find Uhura inspiring, but her job on the ship is being a glorified secretary, you get that right
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MrTausn and
Nichelle Nichols and Gene Roddenberry had a huge fight because there was a script submitted that had Uhura take the helm during an emergency and Gene put his foot down saying that it wouldn't be right, it's not Uhura's place
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Which it wouldnt be there are like four other officers in line before her
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Yeah the point of the episode, as I just said, was that it was an emergency and she had to
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So what he was the director it was his story and you have to realize you cant judge these men by todays standards thats simple idiotic it was a completely differnt mind set and culture then they where breaking the norms of there time in subtle ways
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The writer of that episode was also a man, who lived in Gene Roddenberry's time, and thought of the "norms" differently apparently So did Nichelle Nichols
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Nimoy was a man of Gene Roddenberry's time and thought "Turnabout Intruder" was astonishingly sexist garbage and protested against it as hard as he could
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