From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: will.dockery{at}gmail.com
Subject: The Kiss

The first "inter racial" kiss ever on television, Star Trek
always was years 
ahead of the rest:

http://www.blastr.com/2013-4-19/little-known-sci-fi-fact-uhuras-famed-trek-kiss-wasnt-meant-be-kirk

In a Vancouver Sun interview, actress Nichelle Nichols recalled the story of 
that famous kiss, revealing that she had been practicing with Leonard Nimoy 
(not a bad way to spend the time) when Shatner saw them smooching.

"Bill Shatner saw what was going on and he said, 'Woah, woah, woah. If 
anybody is gonna get to kiss Lieutenant Uhura it's gonna be me.' And he had 
the whole thing changed so the first interracial kiss was with Lieutenant 
Uhura and Captain Kirk."
"Bill wanted to rehearse all the time. He said he wanted to get this right! 
I said to him, "It's right, it's right. I promise you, it's
right." And the 
camera was shaking and the director was laughing his head off. We really had 
a good time." 

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