...as that souless minion of orthodoxy, Zorch, was saying...
 PA>  ...and, of course, _Star Trek_ showed the first kiss on American 
 PA> TV between a white man and a black woman.
 ZF> Nope.  Sorry.  The first interracial kiss actually occurred in 1954
 , on an American sit-com carried live on network television, and was 
seen
 ZF> by nearly 12 million people across the US. 
 ZF> And now, the title escapes me, but it was about a black maid working
 ZF> in a white home...title was the name of the lead
 ZF> character..."Marigold"? 
  
 Okay, now in a television special about ST, Shatner and Nichols both  made
 mention of their onscreen interracial kiss being ground-breaking. _I_
 thought that was on account of the kiss being the first passionate
 interracial one on TV.
 LM>> The first U.S. Space Shuttle, the "Enterprise," was given 
 LM>> its name after NASA received 400,000 requests from Star Trek 
 LM>> fans.
 PA>    ...and in a neat bit of retcon, the producers of _Star Trek_ 
 PA> have since managed to imply that the starship was named in memory 
 PA> of the space shuttle. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 When was that?? I thought that the naming of starships continued the naval
 tradition of upgrading the vessels and recycling the names. In TVH the
 naval ship that Chekov and Uhura were on was the U.S.S. Enterprise.
 ZF> -zf-  Pord.
           ^^^^
 Code?? To whom? Are you a participant in some intergalactic conspiracy  to
 infuse the languages of Earth with nonsensical gibberish? Which then will
 leave us confused and easy prey for some intergalactic conqueror? Are you in
 league with a Borg-like species or the Borg itself?
 jean
... I already know I'm paranoid. The question is, am I paranoid enough?
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