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  • Only Singer Tina Tunrer Could Play Uhura's Mother in a Cameo in Star Trek 12.Which is now Filming. Uhura's mother would be a Starfleet Admiral in Charge of the Intelligence Division at a Starbase near the Klingon Neutral Zone.

  • Much better interracial kiss: video # hMlpKbIS1I4

  • I don't care whether or not he was telekinetically controlled by those faux Romans. William Shatner should have been demoted for fraternizing.

  • SORRY I NEVER CONSIDERED THAT TO BE A REAL KISS EVEN BACK IN THE DAY.

  • It wasn't much of a kiss, even under the forced circumstances of the story.

  • For those complaining about the "resistance" aspect of the kiss need to watch the entire episode. The episode "Plato's Stepchildren" and in the episode Kirk and Uhura are being forced to kiss against their will because these extra-terrestrial's posing as Greeks have powers to make them do anything they want. We also see Spock being forced to kiss and Kirk slaps himself in the face and literally acts like a horse. It was a weird episode.

  • i love how you americans say "meet lips", deep down is such a beautiful concept, you could use touch lips which is more accurate with what you want to say, but you use meet, as in come into the presence of someone, make acquaintance or even fulfill or satisfy.

  • why would anyone dislike this video?

  • This is one of the greatest tunes ever. Totally thumbs up on the song and video.

  • "Oh hi, I'm captain for the star ship 'Enterprise' Kiss me.

    Bastard

  • That is such a gay kiss, LMFAO, are they scared of each other. Interestingly though, this is the first interracial kiss on TV. I've lived in America for the past four months and am going to college here, what I am beginning to see quite unfortunately is that race is still quite an issue, well I'm in Iowa I don't know if that changes things regionally speaking. I wish, very deeply in my heart that we could be more open to each other, they are great people everywhere

  • @DroidNoir IOWA?! yay your in kirks home state! and that is what we call...irony!

  • @Alleyneko lol

  • This was considered a KISS? Did they even meet lips?? I'm seeing alot of resistence from Nichelle. Maybe Shatner had bad breath or something, but hot damn, she doesn't seem like she's into this at all.

    Hot woman though.

  • @whoregay In the episode it was a forced kiss. Neither Kirk nor Uhura did it voluntarily, so that's why there's so much resistance. But the question of whether they met lips is open to this day, because William Shatner said more than once that the studio did not allow that and therefore they had to turn their heads away from the camera to disguise the fact that they did not, in fact, meet lips.

  • yeahh thats what im talkin about

    but he rly isnt looking at her XD its a shame

  • What episode was this from?

  • I can't help but wonder...Is Spock in the crowd? What is Kirk looking at... :-)

  • worst kiss ever. he's not even looking at her!

  • Here's the context a lot of you don't know: Kirk played his part very strait-laced as far as fraternizing with subordinate officers. He was definitely NOT the character he played on Boston Legal. In this scene he loses his Captainly dignity because the aliens remotely force him to make movements against his will. They force him and Uhuru together for their own amusement and in this scene he is still trying everything in his power to resist their commands. Thankfully it was HER and not Spock!

  • It was the first interacial kiss although the way they did it was asshole-ish, in the story Kirk was forced to kiss her. as if kissing a black woman is disgusting. So I really don`t see how it changed anything.

  • It's unfathomable to think that this was controversial back in the 60's. Racists thought it was unnatural for people of mixed races to kiss each other, let alone get married. You'd think people would have learned their lesson by now, but now the controversy is with two men or two women kissing. I guess people always need someone to hate and discriminate against.

  • ID EAT HER ASS EVEN IF SHES 70

  • haha. yeah I saw that episode...

    It was difficult to watch considering the context of the kiss. And I'm not a big fan of ppl kissing anyway, but I'm all about interracial things. Maybe one day after much more interracial "kissing" everyone in the world will be the same color and race won't be an issue. (even though 'race' is a myth anyway). I think I would have liked it better if it was Nichelle Nichols and Leonard Nimoy, but you can't always get what you want...

  • what episode was this?

  • you've got to be kidding me? you couldn't even see it

  • I find it so interesting that this was aired in the 60's, along with the other cases that others mentioned (sammy-sinatra, kirk and vietnamese), but they don't DARE try to do that now! I truly don't get it. and it goes beyond star trek. You simply don't find interracial r'ships on tv shows. Why is it they HAD to find another black female for Sisko in DS9....hmm, wait. Worf and Dax....but she died! lol....does anyone see what I'm trying to say? lol

  • @maratmasry You know, in the newest movie Spock and Uhura kiss, and the actors actually make physical contact instead of just faking it. I'd say that's about as interracial as you can get.

  • @lemur2000 For some reason, I simply refuse to see that movie. I don't know why. Call me a diehard Trek fan that refuses to see anything reinvented in the franchise. Maybe one of these days I would get up the nerve to watch it. But still, it is not that easy to find interracial contact like that so easily on silver or big screen

  • @maratmasry

    The movie was nothing special. It wasn't "awful" but I don't think you'd be missing much if you never watched it.

  • @lemur2000

    This episode was the first (or maybe second) interracial kiss on television. It's a bit more significant in '68, when the episode aired, than 2009, when the movie came out.

    Even without the kiss, the fact that she was a main character on TV at all, as a star fleet officer and not some maid, is significant in itself.

  • Kirk was gettin it! I know I would've been too! Firing photon torpedoes all over that hull!

  • WHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT but shes better off with Spock

  • Ya know, this is the first black/white interracial kiss. Technically, Lucy and Desi were an interracial couple.

  • sammy davis jr, and nancy Sinatra kissed, before this aired.

  • I saw the whole episode and even though it was forced, I think they've always had feelings for each other but didn't want to be unprofessional.

  • she's got way better chemistry with spock

  • Well, that's probably because both Kirk and Uhura were forced to kiss each other.

  • @brbannlwis but spock has better chemistry with Kirk than with her ;)

  • @brbannlwis well - i guess she did duck with evryone on the ship ...:-D

  • @brbannlwis Spock's got way better chemistry with Kirk.... :|

  • @heartofpixels No... D:

  • The both of yous have got Jungle Fever. The both of yous! :-D

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  • it wasn't the first "interracial" kiss.

    kirk kissed vietnamese-french actress france nuyen prior to kissing Uhura.

    although, Uhura is no doubt much HOTTER :)

  • Additionally, Sammy Davis Jr kissed Nancy Sinatra on Movin' With Nancy a year earlier.

  • but probably the first black and white race kiss...

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  • I would kiss Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) in any time, place, episode, planet, ship in front of any group of aliens or humans! She was and is a very beautiful woman and actor! Spock's got taste! James is a male whore lol. If Kirk didn't like that maybe green is his thing. ;-)

  • @SackyX i would too!her hairsyle is very beautiful!!

  • 1968

  • what year was this?

  • It's because it was one sided. ha ha. Spock was one fine ass alien.

  • BTW I have a question for people who might remember the 1960s. Uhura flirted with Spock in a couple of season 1 episodes ("The Man Trap" and "Charlie X"). Was it considered controversial or shocking? Or was it more acceptable, either because 1) it was mostly one-sided (even though Spock did uncharacteristically smile when she sang about him) or 2) his character was alien, even if the actor was white?

  • Wow I love this episode but the kisses in Star Trek always looked so uncomfortable and awkward. That's part of what made them great.

  • Well, this one was supposed to be awkward and uncomfortable, Kirk and Uhura were under telepathic influence that forced them to kiss.

  • Frakkin, there was great outrage when a white woman smacked  a famous black

    baseball player on the lips. And some burn up at such things today.

    Ever since it began, there were (and are)those in America with nazi type thinking about race.

  • Oh crap. I should have kept that to myself. Sorry

  • I remember watching this when I was eight years old and getting a serious erection.

  • I had a bit of a crush on Uhura as a kid too

    ;)

  • Uhura had superb tits.

  • Was the Kirk/Uhura kiss in 1968? Sammy Davis, Jr. and Nancy Sinatra apparently kissed on the variety programme "Movin' with Nancy"

  • FrakkinToasterLuvva is correct. Sammy Davis Jr. and Nancy Sinatra were the first black and white kiss on TV, but this came only a year later and is One of the first black and white kisses televised.

  • yeah, but sammy was her daddy's best friend. it would have been like kissing her uncle. it wasn't a romantic kiss.

  • Albert Pike founder of the KKK, Captian Pike first captain, James KirK, SpooK, CheKov, KKK

    This cannot be a coincidence.

  • Shortly after this episode aired, Gene Roddenberry got a letter from a Southern man saying "I don't believe in the mixing of the races, but anytime a red-blooded American boy like Captain Kirk gets a gal in his arms that looks like Lieutenant Uhura, he ain't gonna fight it."

  • OMG his lips didn't touch hers! look again!

    This is so racist, the only way a white man would kiss a black woman is if he is forced, Gene was a spook for the US airforce.

  • That's not true. I'm white, and I once dated a black girl, and every time I kissed her, it was of my own free will.

  • Uhura has a bad taste.

  • lol

  • Riiight, like Captain Kirk really needed to be forced into kissing Uhura. Thank god for the 21st century!

  • Kirk kissed an Asian woman in the previous episode.

    THAT was the first interracial kiss in Star Trek.

  • Just call me cpt kirk cause I get so much nanni LOL!!

  • thats like us, you know, the way it is now.

  • This was weak, with no real romance to it at all. In 1968 Robert Wagner kissed Denise Nicholas on It Takes a Thief. That was a kiss.

  • It wasn't meant to be romantic. They were being forced.

  • Back when this happened, the ONLY way they were going to get this kiss past the censors was if Kirk & Uhura were under "mind control". BTW, originally, it was writen in the script that some other crewman was going to kiss Uhura, but William Shatner said, "Oh no, I am going to be the one to kiss her", because he was such a narcissistic upstaging scene-stealer.

  • He may be a narcissistic upstaging scene-stealer, but you can't deny that the impact of the CAPTAIN kissing his black communications officer is far more impressive than "some crewman"

    Even if he only wanted the spotlight, I'm still very impressed by his willingness (heck, he was eager) to kiss his black co-star. He was ahead of the times.

  • Way eager, they even purposefully "sabotaged" the "non kiss" version of the scene to ensure it was played.

  • i think you mean "sabotaaged" =D

  • OH GOD!!! ROFL!

    You're comment made my day!!! Oh lordy! *wipes tear* ..."Saboutaage" BAHAHAHA!!

    I love it.

  • "Captain Kirk's [...] status is proven by his ability to seduce any woman, in any situation, in any part of the galaxy. From high-society princesses to unbalanced Orion slave girls, from gender-switching shape-shifters to emotion-deprived androids they all swoon, acquiesce, and malfunction from just one kiss."

  • The libido that saved the galaxy.

  • ps. also these Star Trek's had the first interplanetary kiss. hehehe :-)

    "I'm like Captain Kirk if you know what I mean, I'd even do ya, if you're green"

    Ok I'll shut up now. Had too much sugar.

  • Yes, Gene Roddenbery and Star Trek is the greatest thing ever to come out of the USA (and that's saying something). We in Europe and the Far East appreciate it, but please don't let out those rednecks whatever you do, we've had enough trouble with George Bush. :-)

    Roddenberry was a world citizen anyway. :-)))

    Here's to all good women of all races around the world! ps. Uhuru was hot by the way! Giggidy, giggidy, gig-gi-dy!

    ps. South Park and Family Guy = also good ;-))

  • As idiotic as QuiteUnsettled's post is, he/she makes a point: "I Love Lucy" was on before this. This was however still pretty damn controversial at the time.

  • arthereld: "I Love Lucy" might have been on before, but I don't see why that kiss would be considered "inter-racial".

  • Yyyyep. Interracial simply means black and white. You are right! How could I be so stupid?

  • Ah, silly me, I forget that in USA it can also mean 'white-with and English-sounding name and white with a Spanish-sounding name'

  • Honestly I don't understand the term "interracial". I'm Puerto Rican and Scottish man, dating an African Native American woman. I think the whole race thing is really stupid. Probably the more accurate term would be "international" but that makes me feel like I should have some frequent flyer miles or something. I'm offtrack here, point is Spanish man kisses Caucasion woman, that was rische. White supremasists were most likely not happy at all.

  • Yes, the terms "race" and racial clasifications can be confusing. And they're really outdated. There was a 19th century classification of humans into "Caucasoid", "Negroid" and "Mongoloid" race which is now considered outdated (no idea why the former term has stuck in USA), as well as many other classifications (for instance, white Europeans were divided into "Nordic", "Alpine" and "Meditarrenean" race). Modern science, however, has rejected the old classifications and even the idea of race.

  • Humans actually all have very similar DNA, so there is, strictly speaking, just one race, human race, and many ethnicities with different physical attributes like skin colour, hair texture and colour, etc. So, I suppose, the term "interracial" is really inaccurate. "International" means from different countries, so it wouldn't really describe a black and a white American person, but would apply to a German and a French...

  • although, in this case, a kiss between Shatner and Nichols was international because she's from USA and he's Canadian :p

    Anyway, I guess the point is, these TV kisses were all revolutionary at the time. I'm sure a lot of white supremacists were annoyed at a Hispanic man kissing a (Anglo-Saxon) "white" woman... but I think a kiss between a black and a white person was a much bigger taboo (although the outrage would've probably been even bigger if it was a white woman and a black man).

  • I apologize for my previous comment. I was angry and disappointed (again) and wrote without thinking.

  • sorry whoever you are, but you have no idea what you are talking about. I hope that what you wrote was some kind of sick joke, but if not you belong in a time long past and no one want to hear your primitive psycho bullshit. also if you don't like it why even take the time to look for and watch the video. Probably just to state your ignorant opinion. sorry to everyone else for rambling.

  • "I am a robot. Does not compute. I am programmed to obey. beep. beep. Communist. Beep. Jew. Beep. Socialist. Beep. Muslim. Beep. Terrorist. Beep. Patriot. Beep. Redneck. I am a robot. I have no original thoughts. Malfunction. Malfunction."

    Looks like we need to switch off this unit, Spock, its stuck in ignorant bigot mode. That's a logical conclusion Captain. :-)

  • I read the desription: first interracial kiss on television, really?

  • yeah! really!

  • Lucky bastard.

  • you like my grandma this is my grandma you perves she has wrinkles now and you guys put these up here oh my gosh i have to tell her

  • Is Uhura truly your grandma?

    No need telling her; she probably already knows.

  • Beso histórico en la TV

  • mmm.. uhura. yum yum :)

  • I read somewhere that some Southern states refused to air this episode.

  • kinda of. the tv stations didnt want 2 show it on tv in the south. How sad.I think any person back then who was or still is offended by something like this is really ignorant & narrowminded. i love kissing black gurls.. get it captain kirk!

  • It is funny that Kirk is fighting it. If I had a woman like Uhuru in my arms and was told to kiss her I would need no forcing to to do it. They might have to use force to get me to stop.

  • everyone loves chocolate!

  • Kirk is a sex god who defeats all the klingons by wooing all there women one by one.

  • Wasn't the first U.S. interracial kiss between Lucy and Ricky Richardo on I Love Lucy?

  • You are actually correct when one thinks about it.

  • That's what I thought too.

  • That's debatable. On I Love Lucy, people saw a hispanic man and a white woman kissing, but in Cuba, Desi Arnaz would have been considered a white man.

  • right, hispanic is an ethnic, not a racial term

  • Right, Cubans come in all colors. Desi Arnaz is considered caucasian right?

  • Like I said, it's debatable. In Cuba where people come in all colors, Desi was a white man, especially to the black Cubans. But Desi probably faced his share of discrimination in America. He almost wasn't cast as Lucille's husband in I Love Lucy even though the two were married because the network didn't believe that a Cuban man and a white woman were believable as husband and wife.

  • Shatner said they didn't actually kiss,but it was at least supposed to be an onscreen kiss. Wikipedia said Nancy Sinatra had already kissed a black man on television.

  • Did you know NBC pre-empted STAR TREK episole on prime time in the south in 1960'S. JIM CROW!!!.i'm living in the south and still facing RACISM.I'm afro-american,i'm still facing racism to this day,From slander from an white minister to white asst mgr.from an family resturant falsely accused me for stealing night deposit,to not invited to see my white friends because white parents refused to invited me to their home like black males are criminals.RACISM will be here till we died.get used to it.

  • that's ****ed up man, but don't forget one thing. they are USA white people :-)

    Only 17% have passports so pretty ignorant I reckon. All my mates are of different countries/colours/religions. If anyone even thought of being racist they'd get their ass kicked. The more we mix the less the gloopy ones spread their STUPID disease. :P

  • I always thought that Uhura and Captain Kirk had strong chemistry. She always would get extra upset when something would happen to him.

  • We Jews always get that dark chocolate!

  • You have good taste!

  • actually

    I love lucy much? lol

  • hahah they both looked so reluctant!

  • That's because, in the episode, their body movements are being controlled by the people watching them. I remember watching this when it was on TV. It caused SUCH a big stink, but I thought it was great and courageous, for the times.

  • She Knew he wanted her...

  • There was NO kiss. You can see that his mouth never touched hers. The hype that it happened on TV was all B.S.

  • And THAT is why Star Trek will always be better than Star Wars!!!!!

  • i remember that awesome!

  • btw. i know this kiss was history but the situation they did it in was pretty disgusting he made a choice it was either kiss this black woman or the world would be over.

  • I agree with gopostal000.

  • yeah at least he did'nt have to kiss bones lol

  • Or Snotty or Spock's Old Man.

  • lol

  • This was a moment in history!

    Glad how Trek moved the limits!

  • I would do Kirk.

  • Me too! He was hot back then!

  • It's from "Plato's Stepchildren"

  • sunny3601, eww I cant believe you even said that. That ws such a sweeping generalization. TRUST ME, not all White guys are sweet sexy and hot and everything nice and whatever.

  • I wanted to be Captain Kirks Wing man, just hanging with him I knew I was going to get some Coochi, Kirk would Bang anything, that's my D.O.G

  • ROFL!

  • Kirk hit that...you know he did. But I hear he like Octurian puntang the most

  • Yeah, it may be one of the more cheesy kisses I've seen, but the creators took a risk in doing this and I applaud them. This was back in the day when there lynchings, people being sprayed with fire hoses in the street, or getting beat up just for trying to intergrate the school systems. So rock on, we do need more interaccial couple shows though!

  • LOL! I loved how they have the kisses back in the day. LOL!

  • Lucky Gene! That is some perk of the job!

  • Actually, she and Gene Roddenbury had an affair. (He was married.) They were intimate for several years.

  • that was kind of funny.

  • This kiss heard round the world. I love it.

  • Denny Crane

  • LOL! I love him as Denny!

  • He looked bored.

  • It makes you look around today and see what they'll be amazed about in the future.

    "Did you know back in 2007 someone might bomb you if you were a different religion?"

  • LOL.XD

  • It's ridiculous because there have been interracial affairs and marriages throughout U.S. history and yet showing two fictional characters touch lips was thought to be groundbreaking! And didn't Nat King Cole and a white female singer get in trouble for touching while doing a duet? And those were supposedly "the good old days."

  • A rated G kiss between two people of a different colour. That was groundbreaking? I'm so glad I live in the 21st century.

  • I'd also like to add star trek had the first same gender kiss

  • It's hard to believe that this can be groundbreaking! lol. But hopefully, in the future, anyone will be able to kiss on tv regardless of colour or gender and not a a big deal (good or bad) made about it!

  • Welcome to the future

  • Did you know that NBC forbid them from actually letting their lips touch? That's why they turn away from camera- to conceal the fact that they weren't actually kissing. Isn't racism ridiculous?