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Nichelle Nichols: MLK impacted decision to stay on Enterprise (invented term "Treker in" 1966)
New York Daily News ^
| Monday, January 17th 2011
| Richard Huff
Posted on 01/17/2011 9:55:33 AM PST by presidio9
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:55:35 AM PST
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
Uhura, who’s name means Freedom. Google Nichelle Nichols Ebony Magazine. VA VA VOOM!
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:58:00 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: presidio9
Her best scenes are in “Mirror Mirror”.
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posted on
01/17/2011 10:02:17 AM PST
by
Sybeck1
(Memo to Mitt Romney: Just go away.............)
To: presidio9
Apparently it wasn’t the first — Sammy Davis Jr. and Nancy Sinatra predated Plato’s Stepchildren — (some object to this answer because it wasn’t affectionate)...but neither was this episode...also the kiss wasn’t really shown.
Shatner kept messing it up so he could do the scene over and over and over.
To: scrabblehack
Actually the Star Trek budget only allowed for two takes. When they did the second take with the kiss tones down, Shatner looked at the camera and crossed his eyes so they’d have to use the take with the kiss.
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posted on
01/17/2011 10:06:31 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: massgopguy
The Enterprise could not have survived the loss of that much buoyancy.
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posted on
01/17/2011 10:07:05 AM PST
by
matt1234
(0bama's bunker phase: Nov. 2010 - Jan. 2013)
To: presidio9
Whew... 78?
I remember constructing my own ‘Enterprise’ out of cardboard and popsickle sticks and hanging it in the 8th grade art classroom. This was in the fall of 1966, before there were any real models available. Seems like last year, not over 40 years ago.
To: presidio9
” (invented term “Treker in 1966)”
Never heard of it.
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posted on
01/17/2011 10:08:35 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
To: Sybeck1
Looking back in hindsight, apparently it was Takai’s best acting as well.
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posted on
01/17/2011 10:08:58 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: massgopguy; scrabblehack; Sybeck1; matt1234
I actually like TOS (and only TOS), but I believe this story about as much as I believe that Chelsea Clinton almost died in 9/11.
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posted on
01/17/2011 10:09:34 AM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does)
To: presidio9
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posted on
01/17/2011 10:11:06 AM PST
by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: massgopguy
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posted on
01/17/2011 10:14:10 AM PST
by
Sybeck1
(Memo to Mitt Romney: Just go away.............)
To: presidio9
Nichols was at a loss for words. It was the first time the importance of being an African-American woman on television had sank in. She returned to "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry the next Monday morning and rescinded her resignation. Did MLK also persuade her to break off her off-screen adultery with "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry?
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posted on
01/17/2011 10:16:09 AM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed, he's hated on seven continents")
To: presidio9
"Star Trek" stands as the show with the first interracial kiss on TV, with Nichols and William Shatner together. Except that it was implied and not actually shown. Shatner turns his body just before the kiss.
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posted on
01/17/2011 10:16:32 AM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: presidio9
I actually like TOS (and only TOS), but I believe this story about as much as I believe that Chelsea Clinton almost died in 9/11. Is she sure that MLK wasn't just making a move on her?
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posted on
01/17/2011 10:16:32 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(Half of all Americans are above average. Politicians come from the other half.)
To: massgopguy
"...it was Takai’s best acting as well." He did a pretty good job watching John Wayne's backside...
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posted on
01/17/2011 10:16:57 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: presidio9
I think he also invented, designed and built the Enterprise.
To: presidio9
Well, she’s been telling this story for about 40 years now. Not that that will change your opinion of it.
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posted on
01/17/2011 10:18:26 AM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: Tanniker Smith
Well, she’s been telling this story for about 40 years now. Not that that will change your opinion of it. And for the past 42 years the only other witness to this conversation has been unavailable for comment...
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posted on
01/17/2011 10:21:56 AM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does)
To: Rebelbase
Never heard of it. Ever heard of this really cool website "Google.com?"
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posted on
01/17/2011 10:24:18 AM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does)
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