[TV] RIP Nichelle Nichols

[Frutos]

Best known as Lt Uhura on Star Trek, but also worked with NASA to recruit female and ethnic minority candidates to their astronaut pool.

RIP

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jul/31/nichelle-nichols-lt-uhura-star-trek-dies

 

[Silverhatch]

First mixed race kiss on screen. Kirk had excellent taste.

 

[vegster]

RIP Lt Uhura, sad that on a day of huge advancement for women, we lose someone who was ground breaking in a different way in her time.

 

[TugWilson]

Love the original series,she was a brilliant member of the crew R.I.P.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Best known as Lt Uhura on Star Trek, but also worked with NASA to recruit female and ethnic minority candidates to their astronaut pool.

RIP

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jul/31/nichelle-nichols-lt-uhura-star-trek-dies

Yes, passed away at the age of 89 last night l believe.

R. I. P.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

875020079 RIP Legend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyy3SH0b-8c

 

[Acker79]

First mixed race kiss on screen. Kirk had excellent taste.

It wasn't, actually. And her kiss with Kirk/Shatner wasn't even her first interracial kiss in star trek. They kissed in 68, in an episode in 66 she kissed a white woman (which also wasn't the first interracial kiss on screen).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_interracial_kiss_on_television

 

[Perfidious Albion]

I second that RIP. She was the best reason to watch the old StarTrek . I just remember the legs .
Actually as a series it had some serious story lines and good acting..

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

RIP

Acting legend…

 

[Silverhatch]

It wasn't, actually. And her kiss with Kirk/Shatner wasn't even her first interracial kiss in star trek. They kissed in 68, in an episode in 66 she kissed a white woman (which also wasn't the first interracial kiss on screen).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_interracial_kiss_on_television

Stand corrected.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Now that is very sad.

RIP Lt Uhura

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

First mixed race kiss on screen. Kirk had excellent taste.

They showed that kiss on the BBC this morning. Very awkward seeing as it looked like she was being forced. The presenter made an embarrassed comment about him being keener and they moved on.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I second that RIP. She was the best reason to watch the old StarTrek . I just remember the legs .
Actually as a series it had some serious story lines and good acting..

I feel guilty about remembering the legs. But we’ll aware of the NASA work and so on afterwards.

It was always rumoured that the original Star Trek was recommended viewing for Philosophy students at Oxford because of the ethical issues it sometimes raised.

 

[BBassic]

They showed that kiss on the BBC this morning. Very awkward seeing as it looked like she was being forced. The presenter made an embarrassed comment about him being keener and they moved on.

If I recall correctly the story line was that Kirk & Uhura had been possessed by aliens or something. Might explain it. Or it could also be that she wasn't into it.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

If I recall correctly the story line was that Kirk & Uhura had been possessed by aliens or something. Might explain it. Or it could also be that she wasn't into it.

The storyline had to be that they were forced into it by aliens, to get around the fact it was a mixed race kiss. Racial problems were still very much at the fore when Startrek went out.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

The storyline had to be that they were forced into it by aliens, to get around the fact it was a mixed race kiss. Racial problems were still very much at the fore when Startrek went out.

And still are in the southern states of the USA.