I saw this episode when it first aired, here in Australia, but had no idea that it meant so much to Americans. From 12,000 Km's away. I suppose we felt it was just two Americans (except William Shatner is Canadian).
Different races do exist. Why shouldn't they? Celebrating one's heritage and the beauty of different cultures is what being diverse is all about. If someone calls me white, I don't take offense. Why should I? I'm European. I have an amazing cultural background, and I'm proud of it. Acknowledging different races is not being "racist" or anti-anything, it's about celebrating how amazingly diverse and colourful our world is. "Race" is not a dirty word.
@son8of8vazkor I know. I actually watched this episode when it was first aired. I'm just surprised that there are still people who would find the idea bothersome.
Not only this, but if I read American history correctly, it was also the love that a white man felt for a black woman that got the racist laws against interracial marriage downturned in the first place. Pretty awesome legacy.
I agree with posters that "I love Lucy" was more important than this episode. Like "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" "I love Lucy" displayed interracial marriages in a positive light. This kiss in "Star Trek" was more like interracial porn and as someone pointed out, the characters were forced to do it against their will. This makes a difference.
I know some people in Paris, Canada and other counties may find it stupid to make a big deal out of this kiss.
But at the time of this Star Trek kiss, it was against the law in many American Southern States for blacks to marry or to associate with whites. It was a time of Rosa Parks and Civil Rights. It was Hell.
At the time of the kiss, it was against the law for whites and blacks to marry in the (Southern) United States. A while before this, a white woman quickly smooched a black athlete on TV and many viewers raised hell.
With this in mind, you could get in trouble for interracial things on tv. Of course, Southerners wouldn't mind if a white was raping a black woman or if a black woman was a whore.
STFU Realiteit01! I'm Black & my son is half Jewish & he is absolutely Perfect! Your a racist ASSHOLE & prob have no prob with "race-mixing" behind closed doors! FUCKER!
back then, doing that, was considered instant no by fcc and viewers. now in this timeline thats nothing. all the news reports talked about this back then as well
This wasn't the first interracial kiss on television. Lucy and Ricky kissed many times on I Love Lucy, but apparently nobody cares about that. It's only REALLY interracial when it's a black/white kiss, right?
@MisterFezMartin You know, I never really thought about it like that. For me though, it's just skin color, not race, so "back then" the more extreme the difference in skin color, the worse it was.
@zygas25 Ricky was actually Cuban, thus making him Hispanic. Lucy was Caucasian, which means that they were an interracial couple. Just about every episode had an interracial kiss, so Star Trek can't even claim to be the first. (Especially since Desilu was the production company that made Star Trek.)
come on, we all know what they mean with interRACIAL, and especially what was meant back in the 60s, and i think before that nancy sinatra kissed i think sammy davis jr, which was more of an fatherly kiss since she knew him since her early childhood, but i think they meant that star trek was the frist series ever to have the balls to make black and white into brown love.
@MisterFezMartin A Hispanic race? The very idea is absurd, if you ask me. There's no such thing, really. Already the Romans made extremely sure there would never be a Hispanic race, when they complemented the Celtiberian and Carthaginian populations with their own genes and those of slaves from all over the empire. Later on Vandals, Visigoths and Moors completed the mess most thoroughly, along with some Frankish influence. Really, everybody everywhere is a mix, like it or not.
@MisterFezMartin - Ricky was Cuban of Spanish descent, so Ricky & Lucy's were as inter-racial as Princess Di dating a Greek. Spain IS part of Europe. To say that Cubans, or Hispanics, are another race is like saying an Australian is of a different 'race' than a Caucasian from England, or the US.
Sure, some Aussies have native blood, like some Americans, but that is not what we are talking about here.Some have African 'blood', but we all do. The human gene pool is VERY small.
Oh, how I love The Shat... As for Uhura, I'm a girl. But, I'd probably still kiss Uhura circa the late 60s. Nichelle is a beautiful woman, and she looked great in those barely there little skirts from the original series! Ditto for Uhura 2.0, Zoe Saldana!
12-28-2009. Happy Birthday, Nichelle. Or can I call you Lieutenant? Heh-heh. You and William Shatner definitely made history when you kissed each other on TV. I hate to think what would have happened if it had been the other way around. That would break new ground down the road. Many happy returns.
Race mixing and immigration has been propagated since by the jewish zionists who mass-immigrated into the West since the beginning of the 20th century, they want the ethnic European gone and replaced by a negro-asian-white mixed race that has no culture and no identity and is very easy to control, Europeans and Blacks and Asians can fight back against the Zionist fascists, but not if they are replaced by mixed people with no identity with all kinds of diseases and genetic failures.
The liberal academic community is in shock this week after a Government Department of Health report claimed that schizophrenia runs at epidemic proportions amongst Africans living in Britain.
The Department of Healths (DH) New Horizons in Mental Health strategy document says that Africans are nine times more likely to suffer from schizophrenia than whites.
yeah, Lets mix with them so our kids have a very high risk of schizophrenia.....
Didn't he say it ended up not being the first on TV in his Star Trek Memories book? Something about there being 2 versions filmed, and one of them was the full on kiss, and the other was one where they were turned away and couldn't be seen very well...kind of where the kiss was implied? I haven't seen the ep in forever, but I do remember reading that in his book...
In an interview with Nichelle Nichols, she said that they did about 20+ takes and they only did the last one without the kiss. However, Shatners crossed his eyes right at the end of the take, so they had to use one of the takes with the kiss. True it's not very clear on the episode itself, but they did do it. Lucky Shat!
When people understand that there is only one human race, then this silly idea of an "interracial kiss" will not make sense at all. It was between to people. It isn't like she was one of those blue broads Kirk was famous for dating.
@narfanoid Sorry, I'm afraid that pesky biology thing is still getting in the way of the whole liberal "one race" fantasy the Jewish media loves to daydream about. I wonder when science is going to learn to stop being so racist!!
@chrysopoeia321 At the time of this episode, the idea of an "inter-racial kiss" on tv was quite scandalous. Much of the population of people watching the show needed such a kick in the butt to get some thought processes going. It's sad to me that there are still people in the world who would be offended by such a thing.
@narfanoid I agree with you. And I think the significance of this scene was the fact that it helped pave the way to the very idea you mentioned. The proof would be that I'm the product of an interracial relationship
@narfanoid You've screwed up your terms big time. SPECIES =/= RACE. The clouded leopard, Indian tendua, jaguar, black panther, snow leopard, Amur leopard etc. are types (or sub-species) of the Panthera Pardus species.
Caucasoids, Mongoloids, Negroids, Capoids and Australoids are similarly the SEPARATE racial branches of the Homo sapiens sapiens species.
@Imrankniazi People who support the "race" idea in humans are supporting the danger of a "different species" concept. There is not enough difference between one group of humans and another to constitute classifying them differently. The traits are too superficial.
@narfanoid Too superficial?? My dear, you must read from the two sources I cited and we can have a proper discussion later. I'd also recommend Dr. William Shockley's work on "Race, Eugenics and IQ" in addition to the two above.
@Imrankniazi The term "race" is neither scientific, nor is it really relevant in modern discourse about human diversity. "Race" is an old idea that came out of people's desire to classify themselves differetly from others. It's "racist" and outdated.
@narfanoid What is outdated? Did you ever read Cavalli-Sforza's world famous work on racial differences? Or perhaps James Watson's work in developing the DNA and his recent comments about racial differences?
I can understand if some people, for reasons best known to them, do not want to acknowledge race. But saying it doesn't exist is scientifically inaccurate.
that will never happen. in an utopian society it would be possible, but let's not forget that we are humans. Humans are not perfect and will never be perfect. Racism, sexism, ageism and all other forms of discrimination will never disappear. It might die down or decline, but it will always exist.
@BabyGirlGoddess Yes, humans can be very stupid. And they do like to hold onto idiotic prejudices and unjustified contempt for those who are not like themselves. I guess it just never hurts to tell racists exactly what they are.
Oh William... dare I say this is an example of you being humble? TV's first interracial kiss being a 'big to do about nothing' is akin to Armstrong's first step on the moon being a big to do about nothing. Sure, it was a little thing per-se... but the significance and consequences of these little things change how humans think and live; in turn, society.
Don't be afraid of black women. They are just as sexy and brilliant as any other color. Nichelle Nichols was hot. If I was William Shatner, I'd want that role too. Although; if you saw the rest of that episode, I think y'all would agree that he paid for it.
It was disgusting then and it's disgusting now. And certainly more than a big to-do about nothing...instead it was a critical part of Jewish manipulation of our emotions, and societal values. Nichelle Nichols has said M.L.King personally asked her not to leave the show because of the societal propaganda value her performance gave to blacks and the civil rights movement. This kiss was another piece of the Jewish Hollywood propaganda designed to transform America. It has worked, unfortunately.
nothing is better than transformation when the original didnt work. if your so critical of the american mentality of change you can leave. your conspiracy theories would find a nice home somewhere else. trust me, no one cares enough about you to try to 'manipulate your emotions' your view of society is a narcassistic one. child.
did Shatner say "todo about nothing" or "HAIRDO about nothing"? - he's been known to be very vain (wearing a girdle to keep his looking good in those tight star trek shirts and never being seen without his wig) so he'd better be careful about "hairdos" about nothing - after all people in glass houses and all that.... not to mention how so many of his fellow cast members disliked him - a little more humility and a little less sanctimony would be good for Shatner
No, I think you're right. On Wikipedia it says something about Sammy Davis Jr. kissing some music partner onstage at a televised show, some years previously.
Well thats a lie, went to hawaii once where my sister (nurse) saw a black couple relaxing out in the sun without sun block, she told them to put sunblock on but they were so cocky they said fuck off to her. Later on they had to go to the emergency room for some severe sun burns, the guy in particular had 1 2nd degree burn on his shoulder the size of a football.
what a nonsense.... my friend is from africa..he's BLACk...most ameerican blacks are half white half black, so their skin is BROWN, like mexicans or arabs. yes, the darker you are the less you burn. but unless you are 100% black, like a dell keyboard, anybody burns. especially with the air pollution.
@Sivratfosho Black people don't absorb sunlight to create vitamin D in their bodies as well as white people do. I'm not racist, I'm just trying to make a point about what you said.
Yeah Ole Bill has quite a few firsts under his belt, including being the first guy to share a Nude Scene with Angie Dickenson in "Big Bad Mama". The Shats been Swankin for a long time. He's a Pimp.
Star trek 11 was excellent! If you notice at the end of the movie the Romulan ship entered the black hole,and was not completely destroyed! This left the franchise wide open to develop a Star Trek 12. The writers really need to some how have William Shatner (Captain Kirk) in as a cameo appearance. This would be spectacular! It's probably already in the workings?
There was a kiss between Robert Conrad (playing James West) and Filipina actress Pilar Seurat (playing Princess Ching Ling) in a 1966 episode of "The Wild, Wild West" called "The Night the Dragon Screamed".
Because Sulu didnt invite him to that wedding...lot of media hype so Sulu gets some play. Shatner probably "keeps the feud going" so they resolve it, and both get a little media time in.
I want a black American wife for green card to USA :) I'M a Hungaryan "white" body man and if she love me I want from her 7 or 8 kids too.And of course I can cook :)
And ye I like the friss rfesh bean with lot of "kenyér "-bread. Yust like my other favourite actor Terence Hill body .)
Ye I eat this a week per a mounth because I'm a poor man.But never mind body. Just hurt me if you like it. I'm a millioner in my spirit and this is the important I think if you are slav man you know too what is the no fear life so have a kiss for you too :)
This is not the first interracial kiss, the first one was done by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez! You're only thinking black and white. AND it was the first BLACK/WHITE interracial kiss on tv. Of course DesiLu produced Star Trek!
I remember watching this episode knowing that it featured the first interracial kiss on tv (more or less). I thought it strange that, since the writer's knew this was a milestone event, they wrote the kiss as occurring under mind control. I would have liked the first interracial kiss to be a normal romantic kiss, but fortunately this kiss did not set the tone for interracial kisses to follow on TV. Still, a very courageous moment for all involved.
It was still a close thing; the network complained after seeing it and insisted that an alternate version was done where they didn't kiss; Shatner & Nichols went along, but apparently Shatner did something subtle to screw up each shot, including mugging for the camera. it wasn't apparent that he was screwing with the shot, so they went forward thinking it was ok.
I hate to say it, but they weren't the first. Wikipedia has this entry:
In the 1968 episode "Plato's Stepchildren", Uhura is involved in an early TV portrayal of an interracial kiss. This is frequently misremembered as "first televised portrayal of an interracial kiss on United States television" even though it took place after Sammy Davis, Jr. and Nancy Sinatra had openly kissed on the variety program Movin' With Nancy in December 1967
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Because alot of people thought they would contract niggeredous, a condition affecting the balls of a white man that has kissed a creature that eats green monkey meat.
I'm a white guy and I would love to kiss her then and now she is a beauty! Please don't miss understand...I mean when a woman is beautiful she is simply beautiful no matter what color she is, do you know what I mean? I hope so!!!
P.S,. My previously mentioned sister is now married 2 a man of Hawaiian descent. This does not bother me either. In fact, he and I are very good, close friends. Now, what does bother me is people who get up on soapboxes acting like race, skin color or ancestry automatically makes them better than some1 else (that includes whites, blacks, and every other race in the world). I'm not a very religious man, but I do believe we were all created equal and it's about damn time we started acting like it!
Thats why America cant move foward and get out of the mess we are in regarding so many real issues we have to deal with as a country. We are so bogged down in nonsense like this that we place things like the economic crisis the greed of the rich elite and the shipping of American. industry overseas. We enjoy being stuck on stupid and politicians and rich corporate fat cats enjoy seeing us mired in fear and superstition so we cant see our futures being looted.
I totally disagree with BitterCycle's comment. 1st of all (far as I know) I've never helped 2 destroy anything except my own damn sanity. (Not that it really needed any help.) 2ndly, I don't consider myself a hypocrite, especially when my own SISTER has dated a white guy, an Italian guy, an Asian guy, AND a Latino guy. This has never bothered me (P.S. she and I are black). Don't insinuate me 2 b a racist or a hypocrite. Unlike most people, I find beauty in all races and all people (only girls!)
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white people dont deserve black women u just need there melanin for the end of the world in 2012 lol ill stop being racist when i get reparations OBAMA
dnt read this(cuz it really wrks). u will gt kissd on the nearest frieday by the love of ur life. 2mara wll b the bst day of ur life hwever if you dnt post ths comment 2 at least 3 vids u will die withn 2 days nw uv startd readn this dnt stp this is so scary snd ths ovr 2 5 vids in 143 mins when ur done press f6 nd ur crush's name wll
Xenophobia is a disease that effects uneducated people. Kiss whoever you want to of any color. I had my first interraccial kiss years ago and feel just fine. I think the generations after X realize this concept.
In my opinion, Star Trek's first "interracial kiss" was not between Kirk and Uhura - it was actually between Kirk and the Doman of Ellas played by Francis Nygen who had (I believe) Vitanmese and French in her background.
I think in the old days people wanted "interracial" to be between black and white - but they're more races out there than just black and white.
40 people are from the south ;)
TdotSoul 1 month ago
@TdotSoul Lol
90yllib 2 weeks ago
I saw this episode when it first aired, here in Australia, but had no idea that it meant so much to Americans. From 12,000 Km's away. I suppose we felt it was just two Americans (except William Shatner is Canadian).
austdata 2 months ago 2
Great video.
Cococrash11 3 months ago
But we never actually see them lip-locked. Uhura's head seems strategically angled to obscure the view.
gigantibyte 3 months ago
I love black women so much yummier than white women as a kid the first woman i ever fancied was Mrs. huxtable from the cosby show hehehe x
2490debrick 5 months ago
both actors rise to the occasion!!i love it!
interstate84man 5 months ago
Different races do exist. Why shouldn't they? Celebrating one's heritage and the beauty of different cultures is what being diverse is all about. If someone calls me white, I don't take offense. Why should I? I'm European. I have an amazing cultural background, and I'm proud of it. Acknowledging different races is not being "racist" or anti-anything, it's about celebrating how amazingly diverse and colourful our world is. "Race" is not a dirty word.
kattykool1994 5 months ago
Can you upload the first black-white DVDA please?
Nautilus1972 6 months ago
uhura looks so sexsy in thie episode!!
interstate84man 7 months ago
@son8of8vazkor I know. I actually watched this episode when it was first aired. I'm just surprised that there are still people who would find the idea bothersome.
narfanoid 8 months ago
@narfanoid
I thought it was green broads he was famous for dating?
okhunterboy6667 8 months ago
If it was me instead of Shatner kissing the lovely Nicholls,I wouldn't have a problem with it!!:)
jolly704 9 months ago
Interracial marriage, in my opinion, should still be illegal. And it would still be here if it weren't for an out of control Federal government!
theskiesbelowme 10 months ago
@theskiesbelowme Racist.
narfanoid 9 months ago
Not only this, but if I read American history correctly, it was also the love that a white man felt for a black woman that got the racist laws against interracial marriage downturned in the first place. Pretty awesome legacy.
GluttonForSex 11 months ago
I agree with posters that "I love Lucy" was more important than this episode. Like "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" "I love Lucy" displayed interracial marriages in a positive light. This kiss in "Star Trek" was more like interracial porn and as someone pointed out, the characters were forced to do it against their will. This makes a difference.
000266617 1 year ago
Pointless cheap shot at George. Don't be such a douche.
starlinej 1 year ago
I know some people in Paris, Canada and other counties may find it stupid to make a big deal out of this kiss.
But at the time of this Star Trek kiss, it was against the law in many American Southern States for blacks to marry or to associate with whites. It was a time of Rosa Parks and Civil Rights. It was Hell.
000266617 1 year ago
At the time of the kiss, it was against the law for whites and blacks to marry in the (Southern) United States. A while before this, a white woman quickly smooched a black athlete on TV and many viewers raised hell.
With this in mind, you could get in trouble for interracial things on tv. Of course, Southerners wouldn't mind if a white was raping a black woman or if a black woman was a whore.
000266617 1 year ago
I saw this episode when it first came out, and when I saw this scene I got a major woody.
MrRockhardman 1 year ago 5
STFU Realiteit01! I'm Black & my son is half Jewish & he is absolutely Perfect! Your a racist ASSHOLE & prob have no prob with "race-mixing" behind closed doors! FUCKER!
TheGrrlpoet 1 year ago
I think this was awsome!!
thom19671 1 year ago
Sadly, it really wasn't a kiss. It was more like a "near-miss", if you look very closely.
Also, the situation was FORCED upon the two characters....they didn't do it willingly.
But at least it was a start...........
UTAOUB 1 year ago
back then, doing that, was considered instant no by fcc and viewers. now in this timeline thats nothing. all the news reports talked about this back then as well
zygas25 1 year ago
This wasn't the first interracial kiss on television. Lucy and Ricky kissed many times on I Love Lucy, but apparently nobody cares about that. It's only REALLY interracial when it's a black/white kiss, right?
MisterFezMartin 1 year ago
@MisterFezMartin You know, I never really thought about it like that. For me though, it's just skin color, not race, so "back then" the more extreme the difference in skin color, the worse it was.
DeathStrikeVirus 1 year ago
ricky was italian so it was accepted. this however was groundbreaking
zygas25 1 year ago
@zygas25 Ricky was actually Cuban, thus making him Hispanic. Lucy was Caucasian, which means that they were an interracial couple. Just about every episode had an interracial kiss, so Star Trek can't even claim to be the first. (Especially since Desilu was the production company that made Star Trek.)
MisterFezMartin 1 year ago
@MisterFezMartin
come on, we all know what they mean with interRACIAL, and especially what was meant back in the 60s, and i think before that nancy sinatra kissed i think sammy davis jr, which was more of an fatherly kiss since she knew him since her early childhood, but i think they meant that star trek was the frist series ever to have the balls to make black and white into brown love.
OropherThranduil 1 year ago
@MisterFezMartin A Hispanic race? The very idea is absurd, if you ask me. There's no such thing, really. Already the Romans made extremely sure there would never be a Hispanic race, when they complemented the Celtiberian and Carthaginian populations with their own genes and those of slaves from all over the empire. Later on Vandals, Visigoths and Moors completed the mess most thoroughly, along with some Frankish influence. Really, everybody everywhere is a mix, like it or not.
jannevellamo 1 year ago
@jannevellamo add bit of Aztec, Carib, Arahuak, Maya, Taino, Inca and we jammin PAPI!!!
contact1araya 1 year ago
@MisterFezMartin - Ricky was Cuban of Spanish descent, so Ricky & Lucy's were as inter-racial as Princess Di dating a Greek. Spain IS part of Europe. To say that Cubans, or Hispanics, are another race is like saying an Australian is of a different 'race' than a Caucasian from England, or the US.
Sure, some Aussies have native blood, like some Americans, but that is not what we are talking about here.Some have African 'blood', but we all do. The human gene pool is VERY small.
Jefferdaughter 1 year ago
Aired November 22, 1968. Many stations in America's south refused to broadcast the episode, and it was banned in England for almost 25 years.
jules747400 1 year ago
I would love to kiss captain Kirk
spacekiss1 1 year ago
Captain Kirk sunk his meat into anything with two legs, two bumps, three holes and a heartbeat. So kissing a Black woman is nothing to him.
Jefgg 1 year ago
Atleast he was kissing a hot women crew member....Picard was but-slammin' Wesley Crusher on the holo-deck 2. I have proof..
WiseGuy5674 1 year ago
Kirk was bangin' anything with two tits and a heat-beat. He was knockin' boots with a blue chic too!
WiseGuy5674 1 year ago
It's not interracial when Shatner is at it. It's understandable. No woman of any colour can resist such temptation.
StPierreGSP 1 year ago
is anyone on here not an idiot?
TwelveBells 1 year ago
Lay that pipe, Bill.
And remember...they're all pink in the inside.
LOL
fmscribs 1 year ago
Oh, how I love The Shat... As for Uhura, I'm a girl. But, I'd probably still kiss Uhura circa the late 60s. Nichelle is a beautiful woman, and she looked great in those barely there little skirts from the original series! Ditto for Uhura 2.0, Zoe Saldana!
SugarCookietarian 1 year ago
Kiss a beautiful woman to further Civil Rights and racial tolerance ? Tough job. . . . .Where do I sign up?
kevmarkpat 1 year ago 2
@kevmarkpat Nichelle was a fox back then!
DeathStrikeVirus 1 year ago
@kevmarkpat i agree with you there!
interstate84man 5 months ago
@kevmarkpat i agree with you there!an attractive woman is an attractive woman no matter what race she is!
interstate84man 4 months ago
sweet
JordanWilde 1 year ago
I wanna kiss Shatner 20+ times ; 3;
It was a good episode~
Cioara 2 years ago
Shatner and Nimoy both wanted to do the kiss, originally.
I'm sure that's big "nothing" he was refering to.
HandOfMe 2 years ago 6
12-28-2009. Happy Birthday, Nichelle. Or can I call you Lieutenant? Heh-heh. You and William Shatner definitely made history when you kissed each other on TV. I hate to think what would have happened if it had been the other way around. That would break new ground down the road. Many happy returns.
mkl62 2 years ago
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Race mixing and immigration has been propagated since by the jewish zionists who mass-immigrated into the West since the beginning of the 20th century, they want the ethnic European gone and replaced by a negro-asian-white mixed race that has no culture and no identity and is very easy to control, Europeans and Blacks and Asians can fight back against the Zionist fascists, but not if they are replaced by mixed people with no identity with all kinds of diseases and genetic failures.
Realiteit01 2 years ago
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The liberal academic community is in shock this week after a Government Department of Health report claimed that schizophrenia runs at epidemic proportions amongst Africans living in Britain.
The Department of Healths (DH) New Horizons in Mental Health strategy document says that Africans are nine times more likely to suffer from schizophrenia than whites.
yeah, Lets mix with them so our kids have a very high risk of schizophrenia.....
Realiteit01 2 years ago
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Should have been the first filmed interracial penetration "Ohura" was hot back in the day
Leohuizar 2 years ago
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Shatner, once again, finds a way to insult Takei. Typical. Unsurprising.
jstele 2 years ago
STFU you!
tarzanerc 2 years ago
Deal with it.
jstele 2 years ago 3
Didn't he say it ended up not being the first on TV in his Star Trek Memories book? Something about there being 2 versions filmed, and one of them was the full on kiss, and the other was one where they were turned away and couldn't be seen very well...kind of where the kiss was implied? I haven't seen the ep in forever, but I do remember reading that in his book...
kronos6948 2 years ago
In an interview with Nichelle Nichols, she said that they did about 20+ takes and they only did the last one without the kiss. However, Shatners crossed his eyes right at the end of the take, so they had to use one of the takes with the kiss. True it's not very clear on the episode itself, but they did do it. Lucky Shat!
Apophisguard 2 years ago
When people understand that there is only one human race, then this silly idea of an "interracial kiss" will not make sense at all. It was between to people. It isn't like she was one of those blue broads Kirk was famous for dating.
narfanoid 2 years ago 64
lol
knyght42002 2 years ago
hey those blue broads were hot shit ;D
NEOxREBELLION 2 years ago
@narfanoid Well that has more to do with the US mentality then really a world wide thing..
kempaku982 1 year ago
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@kempaku982 - "Well that has more to do with the US mentality then really a world wide thing"
What's sad is that there are still people who think that way.
narfanoid 1 year ago
@narfanoid
"two" not to
ethicks00 1 year ago
@ethicks00 Wow, you managed to find what is possibly the only time I used "to" instead of "two". And I usually bug other people about that. LOL
narfanoid 1 year ago
@ethicks00 Thank you. I usually get on other people's cases for that sort of mistake. Sometimes I just let my fingers get ahead of me.
narfanoid 9 months ago
@narfanoid lol
chitownbrit1 1 year ago
@narfanoid Sorry, I'm afraid that pesky biology thing is still getting in the way of the whole liberal "one race" fantasy the Jewish media loves to daydream about. I wonder when science is going to learn to stop being so racist!!
WN4723 1 year ago
@narfanoid Agreed. It's strange how tiny differences sometimes overshadow that we all are humans first.
chrysopoeia321 1 year ago
@chrysopoeia321 At the time of this episode, the idea of an "inter-racial kiss" on tv was quite scandalous. Much of the population of people watching the show needed such a kick in the butt to get some thought processes going. It's sad to me that there are still people in the world who would be offended by such a thing.
narfanoid 1 year ago
@narfanoid I agree with you. And I think the significance of this scene was the fact that it helped pave the way to the very idea you mentioned. The proof would be that I'm the product of an interracial relationship
opheliaroxs17 1 year ago
@narfanoid You've screwed up your terms big time. SPECIES =/= RACE. The clouded leopard, Indian tendua, jaguar, black panther, snow leopard, Amur leopard etc. are types (or sub-species) of the Panthera Pardus species.
Caucasoids, Mongoloids, Negroids, Capoids and Australoids are similarly the SEPARATE racial branches of the Homo sapiens sapiens species.
See the difference?
Imrankniazi 10 months ago
@Imrankniazi People who support the "race" idea in humans are supporting the danger of a "different species" concept. There is not enough difference between one group of humans and another to constitute classifying them differently. The traits are too superficial.
narfanoid 10 months ago
@narfanoid Too superficial?? My dear, you must read from the two sources I cited and we can have a proper discussion later. I'd also recommend Dr. William Shockley's work on "Race, Eugenics and IQ" in addition to the two above.
Imrankniazi 9 months ago
@Imrankniazi The term "race" is neither scientific, nor is it really relevant in modern discourse about human diversity. "Race" is an old idea that came out of people's desire to classify themselves differetly from others. It's "racist" and outdated.
narfanoid 10 months ago
@narfanoid What is outdated? Did you ever read Cavalli-Sforza's world famous work on racial differences? Or perhaps James Watson's work in developing the DNA and his recent comments about racial differences?
I can understand if some people, for reasons best known to them, do not want to acknowledge race. But saying it doesn't exist is scientifically inaccurate.
Imrankniazi 9 months ago
@Imrankniazi The very fact that you mention Schockley is enough for me to have a hint of where you're coming from. Can you say "racist"?
narfanoid 9 months ago
@narfanoid Let me get this straight. When you don't agree with proven studies, science is supposed to be racist?
Imrankniazi 9 months ago
@Imrankniazi You should read more. Current science finds just the opposite. Racist.
narfanoid 9 months ago
@Imrankniazi What proven studies are you talking about? Anything recent, or are they all from the 50s and 60s?
narfanoid 9 months ago
@narfanoid
that will never happen. in an utopian society it would be possible, but let's not forget that we are humans. Humans are not perfect and will never be perfect. Racism, sexism, ageism and all other forms of discrimination will never disappear. It might die down or decline, but it will always exist.
BabyGirlGoddess 6 months ago
@BabyGirlGoddess Yes, humans can be very stupid. And they do like to hold onto idiotic prejudices and unjustified contempt for those who are not like themselves. I guess it just never hurts to tell racists exactly what they are.
narfanoid 6 months ago
Perfect that Kirk & Uhura represented the first interracial kiss.
bwhite53 2 years ago 5
Oh William... dare I say this is an example of you being humble? TV's first interracial kiss being a 'big to do about nothing' is akin to Armstrong's first step on the moon being a big to do about nothing. Sure, it was a little thing per-se... but the significance and consequences of these little things change how humans think and live; in turn, society.
Pronoun8472 2 years ago 6
Don't be afraid of black women. They are just as sexy and brilliant as any other color. Nichelle Nichols was hot. If I was William Shatner, I'd want that role too. Although; if you saw the rest of that episode, I think y'all would agree that he paid for it.
CABAL49 2 years ago 9
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It was disgusting then and it's disgusting now. And certainly more than a big to-do about nothing...instead it was a critical part of Jewish manipulation of our emotions, and societal values. Nichelle Nichols has said M.L.King personally asked her not to leave the show because of the societal propaganda value her performance gave to blacks and the civil rights movement. This kiss was another piece of the Jewish Hollywood propaganda designed to transform America. It has worked, unfortunately.
jthomas12793 2 years ago
nothing is better than transformation when the original didnt work. if your so critical of the american mentality of change you can leave. your conspiracy theories would find a nice home somewhere else. trust me, no one cares enough about you to try to 'manipulate your emotions' your view of society is a narcassistic one. child.
tiemedown 2 years ago
The ignorance, sanctimony, and presumption in your silly screed is breathtaking. You get a thump on the head for talking out of your ass.
jthomas12793 2 years ago
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JEWS DID HOLLYWOOD
Charmolution 2 years ago
kirk getting some brown sugar
sethan122 2 years ago 56
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We already know jews like Shatner are fucking degenerates thanks.
gliderama 2 years ago
wow, your a total dick.
Abbelin 2 years ago 2
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did Shatner say "todo about nothing" or "HAIRDO about nothing"? - he's been known to be very vain (wearing a girdle to keep his looking good in those tight star trek shirts and never being seen without his wig) so he'd better be careful about "hairdos" about nothing - after all people in glass houses and all that.... not to mention how so many of his fellow cast members disliked him - a little more humility and a little less sanctimony would be good for Shatner
macspectrum 2 years ago
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Eww.
AfroSchmuck 2 years ago
the script was originally written for spock to kiss uhura but shatner insisted it be him who did the scene... much to do about nothing?
hero2342 2 years ago 12
shatner was sleeping with her
macspectrum 2 years ago 8
I knew about Nichelle Nichols and Gene Roddenberry, but Nichelle and Shatner?
darrinbaker00 2 years ago
"jungle fever"
macspectrum 2 years ago 2
actually i think it was the second american televised interracial kiss...idk, am i wrong?
vness730 2 years ago
No, I think you're right. On Wikipedia it says something about Sammy Davis Jr. kissing some music partner onstage at a televised show, some years previously.
Nuclearman2 2 years ago 2
He just couldn't resist that jab against George.
captainjaneway80 2 years ago 5
i know , right? i cant believe they really hate each other!
ezridax 2 years ago
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Black people are superior to whites, they don't burn like white man. I hate being burned by sun... GOD DAMN THIS WHITE PASTY SKIN!
Sivratfosho 2 years ago
Well thats a lie, went to hawaii once where my sister (nurse) saw a black couple relaxing out in the sun without sun block, she told them to put sunblock on but they were so cocky they said fuck off to her. Later on they had to go to the emergency room for some severe sun burns, the guy in particular had 1 2nd degree burn on his shoulder the size of a football.
Guyver89 2 years ago
what a nonsense.... my friend is from africa..he's BLACk...most ameerican blacks are half white half black, so their skin is BROWN, like mexicans or arabs. yes, the darker you are the less you burn. but unless you are 100% black, like a dell keyboard, anybody burns. especially with the air pollution.
massivebeatzz 2 years ago 3
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Well it was a joke so maybe you should stop being a cum guzzling faggot.
Sivratfosho 2 years ago
So, you insulted African Americans and now you're insulting homosexuals? Wow. So much anger...
Mittens2201ca 2 years ago
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I didn't insult homosexuals, and I didn't insult african americans. I don't know what the fuck you you are talking about you dick licking faggot.
Sivratfosho 2 years ago
that was meant for the other guy... i think
Sivratfosho 2 years ago
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@Sivratfosho Black people don't absorb sunlight to create vitamin D in their bodies as well as white people do. I'm not racist, I'm just trying to make a point about what you said.
narfanoid 1 year ago
I believe there were two other series before Star Trek, but Star Trek was the biggest international show to every show this.
Tobbe767 2 years ago
TJ HOOKER
lol
OMG!
He's AGED
KaarenJM 2 years ago
Yeah Ole Bill has quite a few firsts under his belt, including being the first guy to share a Nude Scene with Angie Dickenson in "Big Bad Mama". The Shats been Swankin for a long time. He's a Pimp.
LordBicen 2 years ago
yep , he really is a pimp!
ezridax 2 years ago
I am glad that there will be more films....the actors have signed for two more movies...
davidschilling 2 years ago
"....the actors have signed for two more movies... "
...which is a standard procedure nowadays in case something becomes a box-office-hit.
LordOfJoy 2 years ago
Star trek 11 was excellent! If you notice at the end of the movie the Romulan ship entered the black hole,and was not completely destroyed! This left the franchise wide open to develop a Star Trek 12. The writers really need to some how have William Shatner (Captain Kirk) in as a cameo appearance. This would be spectacular! It's probably already in the workings?
Underdog263 2 years ago
I didn't see the movie, but a ship entering a black hole would mean it's quite completely destroyed.
terminus1256 2 years ago
Your probably right terminus1256? And I apologize to you, and everyone else! I hope that I did not spoil it for you? If you didn't see the movie yet?
Underdog263 2 years ago
Makes more sense to have had Chris Pine kiss Zoe Saldana after seeing this clip instead of Spock/Uhura kiss, n'est ce pas?
charmq777 2 years ago
alternate timeline ;-)
SarahJay55 2 years ago 2
Zoe Saldana was a babe...nuff said.
GiantSnail 2 years ago 3
This video reminds me that I haven't had Thai food for a long time; not sure why though^^
HumanStrategy 2 years ago
There was a kiss between Robert Conrad (playing James West) and Filipina actress Pilar Seurat (playing Princess Ching Ling) in a 1966 episode of "The Wild, Wild West" called "The Night the Dragon Screamed".
ZenWolfDances 2 years ago
why is he always talkin shit about sulu?
hamchammy 2 years ago
lol yeah this is like the fourth clip on here ive seen where hes doing that
shaun2985 2 years ago 3
lol its pretty funny :P
XxSilentGunnerxX 2 years ago
He's Canadian so likely to be not as racist as the southern whites who would object to a black kissing a white woman more than this.
000266617 2 years ago
Because sulu sucks!
RockyBalboa211 2 years ago
Because Sulu didnt invite him to that wedding...lot of media hype so Sulu gets some play. Shatner probably "keeps the feud going" so they resolve it, and both get a little media time in.
invincibleironman3 2 years ago
And I have two kiss for everyone Who like the classic Star Trek employers too : !!! :)
ebedido 2 years ago
If she blue or vulkanian dosent metter :)
ebedido 2 years ago
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I want a black American wife for green card to USA :) I'M a Hungaryan "white" body man and if she love me I want from her 7 or 8 kids too.And of course I can cook :)
But not very good :)
ebedido 2 years ago
you could cook her a bograč or pasulj maybe even ričet
libed91 2 years ago
The " bogracs " isn't the big pot ,)
You are maybe think the " kondér".
Or "vajling"-its the most bigger .)
And ye I like the friss rfesh bean with lot of "kenyér "-bread. Yust like my other favourite actor Terence Hill body .)
Ye I eat this a week per a mounth because I'm a poor man.But never mind body. Just hurt me if you like it. I'm a millioner in my spirit and this is the important I think if you are slav man you know too what is the no fear life so have a kiss for you too :)
ebedido 2 years ago
lol... Wait, you kiss men!?!
JonoWeekes 2 years ago
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this is scary if u read this this far u will die in 10 days if u dont send to any 15 videos in 2 hour
uniqueNameOrWut 2 years ago
I'm not sending no crap to nobody... Wait...who's that at my door....Arrrrggggghh.....
ylekiote99999 2 years ago
This is not the first interracial kiss, the first one was done by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez! You're only thinking black and white. AND it was the first BLACK/WHITE interracial kiss on tv. Of course DesiLu produced Star Trek!
LordPratus 2 years ago 2
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I'd love to catch "niggeredous" ;-)
hurleytom 2 years ago
This shows you all that there was no intelligent life up there either!!
bellabutterflywings 2 years ago
I remember watching this episode knowing that it featured the first interracial kiss on tv (more or less). I thought it strange that, since the writer's knew this was a milestone event, they wrote the kiss as occurring under mind control. I would have liked the first interracial kiss to be a normal romantic kiss, but fortunately this kiss did not set the tone for interracial kisses to follow on TV. Still, a very courageous moment for all involved.
TheCutestTriangle 2 years ago 5
It was still a close thing; the network complained after seeing it and insisted that an alternate version was done where they didn't kiss; Shatner & Nichols went along, but apparently Shatner did something subtle to screw up each shot, including mugging for the camera. it wasn't apparent that he was screwing with the shot, so they went forward thinking it was ok.
paganized 2 years ago 2
DENNY CRANE!!!! We love you Bill!!!! Whatever role you do you are truly a living legend.
lucidaemon 2 years ago 2
What about Lucy and Ricky? Unless they just mean black and white.
TonyAcoustic 2 years ago
I hate to say it, but they weren't the first. Wikipedia has this entry:
In the 1968 episode "Plato's Stepchildren", Uhura is involved in an early TV portrayal of an interracial kiss. This is frequently misremembered as "first televised portrayal of an interracial kiss on United States television" even though it took place after Sammy Davis, Jr. and Nancy Sinatra had openly kissed on the variety program Movin' With Nancy in December 1967
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AWSKAR 2 years ago
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That's pretty cool that he wasn't scared to kiss a colored person.
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david46208 2 years ago
Why would be be scared to kiss a black woman?
JerryTerrifying 2 years ago
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Because alot of people thought they would contract niggeredous, a condition affecting the balls of a white man that has kissed a creature that eats green monkey meat.
zedrein18 2 years ago
Are you afraid to kiss my ass
keilah677 2 years ago
I'm a white guy and I would love to kiss her then and now she is a beauty! Please don't miss understand...I mean when a woman is beautiful she is simply beautiful no matter what color she is, do you know what I mean? I hope so!!!
kytbradio 2 years ago 15
Uhura was a fox!
JerryTerrifying 2 years ago 8
@kytbradio i would too!
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thegamebeatles 2 years ago
Yeah, I didn't really think there was a problem with it. He was just kissing a beautiful woman. Noting wrong with that!
BygPhattyPlus 2 years ago 7
yeah theres nothing wrong with it...i wouldent call her beautiful but yeah theres nothing bad about it..
nukester 2 years ago
Ah Star Trek.
Always breaking new ground.
magentathedomestic 2 years ago 2
P.S,. My previously mentioned sister is now married 2 a man of Hawaiian descent. This does not bother me either. In fact, he and I are very good, close friends. Now, what does bother me is people who get up on soapboxes acting like race, skin color or ancestry automatically makes them better than some1 else (that includes whites, blacks, and every other race in the world). I'm not a very religious man, but I do believe we were all created equal and it's about damn time we started acting like it!
ShoTubular83 2 years ago 6
Thats why America cant move foward and get out of the mess we are in regarding so many real issues we have to deal with as a country. We are so bogged down in nonsense like this that we place things like the economic crisis the greed of the rich elite and the shipping of American. industry overseas. We enjoy being stuck on stupid and politicians and rich corporate fat cats enjoy seeing us mired in fear and superstition so we cant see our futures being looted.
edthewise 2 years ago
Its just a video dude don't get a tumer over it
seriously
ReverantFaun 2 years ago
I totally disagree with BitterCycle's comment. 1st of all (far as I know) I've never helped 2 destroy anything except my own damn sanity. (Not that it really needed any help.) 2ndly, I don't consider myself a hypocrite, especially when my own SISTER has dated a white guy, an Italian guy, an Asian guy, AND a Latino guy. This has never bothered me (P.S. she and I are black). Don't insinuate me 2 b a racist or a hypocrite. Unlike most people, I find beauty in all races and all people (only girls!)
ShoTubular83 2 years ago
DENNY CRANE!
heylover3 2 years ago 3
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white people dont deserve black women u just need there melanin for the end of the world in 2012 lol ill stop being racist when i get reparations OBAMA
BUCKSHOTSss 2 years ago
Amtrekker > Shatner
deanneugebauer 2 years ago
such anger in these comments
SteveOSpielberg 2 years ago 3
Why are you allways commenting on George T.???
Did He break your heart??????
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SmokenAces 2 years ago
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emointhepantry 2 years ago
Xenophobia is a disease that effects uneducated people. Kiss whoever you want to of any color. I had my first interraccial kiss years ago and feel just fine. I think the generations after X realize this concept.
Sezu86 2 years ago 3
lucy and desi never kissed?
piper77 2 years ago
In my opinion, Star Trek's first "interracial kiss" was not between Kirk and Uhura - it was actually between Kirk and the Doman of Ellas played by Francis Nygen who had (I believe) Vitanmese and French in her background.
I think in the old days people wanted "interracial" to be between black and white - but they're more races out there than just black and white.
fgeorge76 2 years ago 3
yeah but there are only 3 races to americans. were smart like that
amonchris 2 years ago 2