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(38,601 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)They did a decent job of making it subtle/part of the storylines, but the sensibilities are definitely there.
I take some pride in that it debuted like 1 month before I was born
AllaN01Bear
(18,772 posts)lame54
(35,345 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,397 posts)...think the show would last, and didn't want to get typecast as a SciFi character.
As someone else here said, she's likely glad she listened to MLK's advice.
She's a legend, and with the movies & syndication, she has $ for 3 generations.
JHB
(37,166 posts)Hekate
(91,006 posts)Glad she stayed on
luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)I loved how cool and competent she was, even as a little kid. I wanted to grow up to be just like her.
2naSalit
(86,935 posts)lapucelle
(18,402 posts)soldierant
(6,952 posts)and it still brings a lump to my throat every. single. time.
LunaSea
(2,895 posts)CloudWatcher
(1,851 posts)I hadn't heard that story, very nice, thanks for posting!!
iluvtennis
(19,907 posts)GeoWilliam750
(2,523 posts)unblock
(52,494 posts)In response to sulu referring to her as a "fair maiden", she responds,
"Sorry, neither"
PJMcK
(22,069 posts)First, he convinced Ms. Nichols to stay on the show as a positive role model.
Second, he gave her the best career advice she probably ever got! By staying with the show, she became iconic.
PatrickforO
(14,604 posts)The racists really crawled out of the woodwork.
Funny, apparently Shatner was kind of a jerk and most of the cast disliked him.
dsc
(52,173 posts)it went so far that he had in his contract that if Nimoy got to direct then he had to be allowed to direct as well. Nimoy was a very good director, Shatner not so much.
Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)uponit7771
(90,371 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,033 posts)Cha
(298,030 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Live long and prosper.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)I met her at a Star Trek Con in Dallas in 1983.
a kennedy
(29,771 posts)love this.
3catwoman3
(24,117 posts)...overused adjective. This is one of them.
ashredux
(2,612 posts)Remember the planet where there was strife between the black/white faces and white/black faces ....
In the episode, the Enterprise encounters two survivors of a war-torn planet, each half black and half white, each committed to destroying each other.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)ashredux
(2,612 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)Kirk standing there going WTF?
Great episode.
liberaltrucker
(9,130 posts)Season 3 Episode 15. Yeah, I'm a ST nerd.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,033 posts)(World Future Society) many years ago and of the two, she was far more gracious, IMHO.
Roddenbury was just so worried that I would somehow pirate his tape of bloopers that he walked the cassette with me to the hall where we'd planned to show it.
Of course, I wasn't bothered...it gave me a chance to spend a surprise hour with the man, Gene, himself.
Peak experience for a rabid fan (me) of that very progressive show!
Pluvious
(4,343 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,033 posts)cagefreesoylentgreen
(838 posts)Theres this story from Whoopi Goldberg, where as a child, she saw Nichelle Nichols on TV for the first time and she yelled to her mother, Momma, theres a black lady on TV and she aint no maid!
Pluvious
(4,343 posts)... That decades later she'd be on TV, working 10 Forward as a barmaid ?
lol
burrowowl
(17,656 posts)Shaddox
(384 posts)History called and Nichelle answered.