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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
(18,261 posts)lame54
(35,293 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,076 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
(37,161 posts)Hekate
(90,714 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
(86,647 posts)lapucelle
(18,275 posts)soldierant
(6,890 posts)and it still brings a lump to my throat every. single. time.
LunaSea
(2,894 posts)CloudWatcher
(1,848 posts)I hadn't heard that story, very nice, thanks for posting!!
iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)unblock
(52,253 posts)In response to sulu referring to her as a "fair maiden", she responds,
"Sorry, neither"
PJMcK
(22,037 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
(14,577 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
(52,162 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
(90,347 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)Cha
(297,317 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
(29,673 posts)love this.
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...overused adjective. This is one of them.
ashredux
(2,606 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
(2,606 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)Kirk standing there going WTF?
Great episode.
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)Season 3 Episode 15. Yeah, I'm a ST nerd.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 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
(4,313 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 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
(4,313 posts)... That decades later she'd be on TV, working 10 Forward as a barmaid ?
lol
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)Shaddox
(384 posts)History called and Nichelle answered.