Subj : Re: The Kiss To : All From : anim8rFSK Date : Fri Apr 18 2014 10:16:38 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos From Address: anim8rfsk@cox.net Subject: Re: The Kiss In article , Wiseguy wrote: > "Will Dockery" wrote in > news:lirerr$52m$1@dont-email.me: > > > The first "inter racial" kiss ever on television, Star Trek always was > > years ahead of the rest: > > > > http://www.blastr.com/2013-4-19/little-known-sci-fi-fact-uhuras-famed- > t > > rek-kiss-wasnt-meant-be-kirk > > > > In a Vancouver Sun interview, actress Nichelle Nichols recalled the > > story of that famous kiss, revealing that she had been practicing with > > Leonard Nimoy (not a bad way to spend the time) when Shatner saw them > > smooching. > > > > "Bill Shatner saw what was going on and he said, 'Woah, woah, woah. If > > anybody is gonna get to kiss Lieutenant Uhura it's gonna be me.' And > > he had the whole thing changed so the first interracial kiss was with > > Lieutenant Uhura and Captain Kirk." > > "Bill wanted to rehearse all the time. He said he wanted to get this > > right! I said to him, "It's right, it's right. I promise you, it's > > right." And the camera was shaking and the director was laughing his > > head off. We really had a good time." > > > > > > Doesn't matter. It looked so phony onscreen the actors may as well as > not have kissed. Some reports have said they didn't actually kiss. Now > if they had shown a real kiss, Star Trek may claim some fame. But they > blew it. > > > It has also been said that they didn't want Uhura to kiss Spock because > Spock was an alien and they wanted to show white and black characters > kissing, which makes more sense. Also there has been the previous Spock > and Chapel relationship so it makes more sense for Spock to be with > Chapel from the beginning. I think this is more likely more of the retcon Shatbashing from Nichelle and Takei. -- Wait - are you saying that ClodReamer was wrong, or lying? --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp * Origin: Easynews - www.easynews.com (1:2320/105.97) --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux * Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1) .