On (26 Dec 97) Jean Halverson wrote to Zorch Frezberg...
 JH>  Okay, now in a television special about ST, Shatner and Nichols both
 JH> made
 JH>  mention of their onscreen interracial kiss being ground-breaking. _I_
 JH>  thought that was on account of the kiss being the first passionate
 JH>  interracial one on TV.
It's all part of the legend of Trek.  It _is_ the better known
occurance, though.
 JH>  LM>> The first U.S. Space Shuttle, the "Enterprise," was given
 JH>  LM>> its name after NASA received 400,000 requests from Star Trek
 JH>  LM>> fans.
 JH>  PA>    ...and in a neat bit of retcon, the producers of _Star Trek_
 JH>  PA> have since managed to imply that the starship was named in memory
 JH>  PA> of the space shuttle. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 JH>
 JH>  When was that?? I thought that the naming of starships continued the
 JH>  tradition of upgrading the vessels and recycling the names. In TVH
 JH> the
 JH>  naval ship that Chekov and Uhura were on was the U.S.S. Enterprise.
The NCC-1701 Enterprise (pickaletter) could not have been named after
the shuttle, if the Trek fans hadn't lobbied for its naming.  Retcon at
its finest.
R.
... USS Crazy Horse, no bloody A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,J,K,L,M,N,P,Q *OR* R!
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