Star Trek is the worst.

[norwegen]

I think the first interracial kiss on TV was between Kirk and Uhura.

Ahead of its time.

 

[fncceo]

I think the first interracial kiss on TV was between Kirk and Uhura.

Ahead of its time.

Actually, the first interracial kiss on TV did include Bill Shatner, but it was 10 years earlier and the woman in question was France Nguyen (a Vietnamese / French actress).

In 1958, on the "Ed Sullivan Show" Shatner kissed Nguyen in a reprise of a scene from their Broadway production of "The World of Suzie Wong".

 

[Polishprince]

I think the first interracial kiss on TV was between Kirk and Uhura.

Ahead of its time.

Not true, how about Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball? Arnaz was a member of hte Hispanic race.

 

[norwegen]

Actually, the first interracial kiss on TV did include Bill Shatner, but it was 10 years earlier and the woman in question was France Nguyen (a Vietnamese / French actress).

In 1958, on the "Ed Sullivan Show" Shatner kissed Nguyen in a reprise of a scene from their Broadway production of "The World of Suzie Wong".

Maybe I'm thinking of the first interracial kiss on a TV drama.

 

[fncceo]

Not true, how about Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball? Arnaz was a member of hte Hispanic race.

Anthropologically speaking, Hispanic is not a separate racial group.

 

[fncceo]

Maybe I'm thinking of the first interracial kiss on a TV drama.

Actually, it was the first Black / White interracial kiss on TV. There had been several up to that time, but the women in question were always Asian or Eurasian.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Using Kirk to DE-populate your planet is one of the dumbest ideas of all time.

There wasn't an alien women he wouldn't beam.

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Apparently, #metoo isn't a 23rd Century idea.

At the time there was a fear that we were overpopulating the earth.
That fear faded, just like the global warming fear will fade as it becomes more apparent that the predictions are not becoming true.
Bones got the ugly ones.

 

[Unkotare]

At the time there was a fear that we were overpopulating the earth.
That fear faded, .....

Some idiots on this forum still haven't let go of that episode.

 

[fncceo]

At the time there was a fear that we were overpopulating the earth.
That fear faded, just like the global warming fear will fade as it becomes more apparent that the predictions are not becoming true.
Bones got the ugly ones.
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I would give her my salt.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The Lizardman was a scary one when I was a kid. (the arena)
But watching it later as a teenager he looked ridiculous.

 

[fncceo]

This has started me thinking and while the incidents of interracial kissing on TV are widely documented (and celebrated).

What I can't seem to remember or even find reference to is the first time on TV, or other medium, where the kiss wasn't a white male and a female of another race.

Apparently, TV audiences found a kiss between a white woman and a man of a different race less socially acceptable. I can only speculate on the reasons for that.

The first even mention of an interracial relationship where the man was not white was the 1957 movie, "Sayonara" where a white woman, who was jilted by her white lover (Marlon Brando) for a Japanese woman, expressed a desire to sleep with a Japanese man who, up to that point, was carrying on a flirtation with her. The Japanese man by the way was played, rather unconvincingly, by Ricardo Montalban. The relationship is never shown, other than the flirting, and only indirectly referenced.

In the 1963 movie, "55 Days at Peking", the stunningly beautiful Ava Gardner played a Russian aristocrat who had an affair with a Chinese general. The relationship is acknowledged, but never shown. In fact, the two characters never appear together on screen. The "Chinese" general was played by the white actor, Leo Genn.

 

[fncceo]

The Lizardman was a scary one when I was a kid. (the arena)
But watching it later as a teenager he looked ridiculous.
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[norwegen]

I liked "Return of the Archons." Life in that utopian society was no life at all.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

I liked "Return of the Archons." Life in that utopian society was no life at all.

interesting episode

 

[Uncensored2008]

The Mark of Gideon​

An interesting episode.
The planet Gideon has an overpopulation problem, so they capture Captain Kick so that hey can give their population Kirk's deadly vegan choriomeningitis virus and cause a pandemic to depopulate their planet.
Star Trek had some wild writers.

Turns out that Anthony Fauci was a part time Science Fiction Writer in the 1960's....

 

[Uncensored2008]

That guy was a bigger ham than Shatner!

The Emissary was bad ass.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Not true, how about Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball? Arnaz was a member of hte Hispanic race.

Hispanics were just white until the 1980's, when our rulers figured out they could pit us against each other.

 

[Hellbilly]

The problem with Star Trek is that the script is written by stupid people who know nothing about science, and don't bother to show respect towards science.

False. A lot of technology we enjoy today came from the writers on that show.

 

[MisterBeale]

 

[MisterBeale]

This has started me thinking and while the incidents of interracial kissing on TV are widely documented (and celebrated).

What I can't seem to remember or even find reference to is the first time on TV, or other medium, where the kiss wasn't a white male and a female of another race.

Apparently, TV audiences found a kiss between a white woman and a man of a different race less socially acceptable. I can only speculate on the reasons for that.

The first even mention of an interracial relationship where the man was not white was the 1957 movie, "Sayonara" where a white woman, who was jilted by her white lover (Marlon Brando) for a Japanese woman, expressed a desire to sleep with a Japanese man who, up to that point, was carrying on a flirtation with her. The Japanese man by the way was played, rather unconvincingly, by Ricardo Montalban. The relationship is never shown, other than the flirting, and only indirectly referenced.

In the 1963 movie, "55 Days at Peking", the stunningly beautiful Ava Gardner played a Russian aristocrat who had an affair with a Chinese general. The relationship is acknowledged, but never shown. In fact, the two characters never appear together on screen. The "Chinese" general was played by the white actor, Leo Genn.

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