Okay, yes, by "interracial" people really mean "against the laws of the Jim Crow South" And I would be more willing to hand Star Trek the title if 1) the backlash they expected had actually happened 2) the episode weren't a cringey mess 3) Roddenberry and Shatner weren't tools
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The episode has them kiss while under the influence of EVIL ALIEN MIND CONTROL It's doing the Hays Code thing of signaling as hard as it can that "This thing that's about to happen is HORRIBLE and we're only showing it to you because it's HORRIBLE Don't try this at home kids"
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Also they don't actually kiss Watch it again, Kirk spins Uhura around so they're doing the high school auditorium stage kiss thing where their mouths are blocked off and you can't see it They're obviously lip-hovering, it's really distractingly visible
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Anyway look okay I Love Lucy was far, far from being "progressive" by today's standards either And yes I know a racist of the time obviously would not view a Cuban mestizo in the same light as a Black American character But come on it was 1951
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The studio fought Lucy pretty hard on this and there were a lot of famous white dudes with a background in comedy they would've preferred - Desi was more known as a musician - but Lucy had enough clout to make them suck it up and hire her rl husband anyway That's impressive
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Gene tried to make them hire his rl girlfriend (Majel Barrett) and they were just like "Ha ha sorry buddy no" That's one of the major reasons the show almost didn't get made, they thought Gene putting his girlfriend in the show made the whole thing feel like amateur hour
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Anyway I stan Lucille Ball, who is also the reason Star Trek got made, and honestly deserves more credit for everythinghttps://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/star-trek-is-back-heres-how-lucille-ball-once-saved-the-show-loved-by-many/ar-BB17EwS5 …
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Maybe we should just accept that it's Trekkie puffery.
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It is also weird because have you seen the "kiss" It's basically an alien treating them like dolls and forcing their faces together and that's how it's acted. First kiss being FORCED feels shitty af and nobody mentions that.
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In the 50s their relationship wasn't considered interracial. The definition of "whiteness" has shifted since I Love Lucy aired
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