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Post by Gort on Oct 24, 2020 14:53:55 GMT 10
Nice special effects. Of course, Star Trek was a trailblazer of cultural diversity back in the day. More recently, the movies have included gay couples ... this series is very much into cultural diversity too. African Americans, Malaysian and Fijian Indian Canadians.  Having missed this when it first came out, I'm quite liking it on Netflix. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2020 14:08:05 GMT 10
Loved this series. Looking forward to Watching Season 3 now that its out.
It's different and almost follows a discrete timeline
Quite a few Netflix series I've enjoyed, usually loading up on the iPad and watching on my long commute to work but since Covid, I haven't been travelling and am now too far into series for my partner to catch up and never alone enough to watch myself :-(
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2020 5:56:27 GMT 10
Nice special effects. Of course, Star Trek was a trailblazer of cultural diversity back in the day. Did you know it was the first ever show to air an interracial kiss (Kirk and Uhura) on US television in 1968? |
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Post by Gort on Oct 27, 2020 9:02:38 GMT 10
Nice special effects. Of course, Star Trek was a trailblazer of cultural diversity back in the day. Did you know it was the first ever show to air an interracial kiss (Kirk and Uhura) on US television in 1968? Hi Grim, I was not aware of that milestone, but knew Uhura was the first African American female to star in a TV series. I think it might have been Bill Cosby who was the first African American to star in a TV show? I spy. Pity about his awful private life activities.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2020 10:38:11 GMT 10
She was!
Interesting story behind Nichelle Nichols who played Uhura.
Apparently, she was going to quit the show to pursue her career on Broadway. Here's an extract from Wikipedia...
In an interview, she said that the day after she told Roddenberry she planned to leave the show, she was at a fundraiser at the NAACP and was told there was a big fan who wanted to meet her. Nichols said:
I thought it was a Trekkie, and so I said, 'Sure.' I looked across the room, and there was Dr. Martin Luther King walking towards me with this big grin on his face. He reached out to me and said, 'Yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan.' He said that Star Trek was the only show that he, and his wife Coretta, would allow their three little children to stay up and watch. [She told King about her plans to leave the series.] I never got to tell him why, because he said, 'You can't. You're part of history.'
She stayed...
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