From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise{at}yahoo.com
Subject: Re: The Kiss

"Will Dockery"  wrote in
news:lirerr$52m$1{at}dont-email.me: 

> 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-
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> rek-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." 
> 
> 

Doesn't matter.  It looked so phony onscreen the actors may as well as 
not have kissed.  Some reports have said they didn't actually kiss. Now 
if they had shown a real kiss, Star Trek may claim some fame.  But they 
blew it.  


It has also been said that they didn't want Uhura to kiss Spock because 
Spock was an alien and they wanted to show white and black characters 
kissing, which makes more sense.  Also there has been the previous Spock 
and Chapel relationship so it makes more sense for Spock to be with 
Chapel from the beginning.

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