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In the episode of Star Trek: The Original Series titled "Plato's Stepchildren", season 3 episode 10, first broadcast November 22, 1968, Uhura (played by black actress Nichelle Nichols) and Captain Kirk (played by white actor William Shatner) kiss. The episode is often cited—incorrectly—as the first interracial kiss on television.
The episode features a kiss between James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) which for many years was described as the first interracial kiss on television. [4] However, it was not the first interracial kiss on television. Several takes of the Kirk/Uhura kiss were filmed, with different levels of contact between the ...
In the 1968 episode "Plato's Stepchildren", Uhura and Captain Kirk kiss. For many years this was claimed to be the first example of a scripted inter-racial kiss on United States television, although other examples have come to light.
The Uhura-Kirk kiss was likely the first televised white/African American lip-to-lip kiss. STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, Nichelle Nichols, wearing her communications ear piece, 1982. (c)Paramount.
The 1968 episode "Plato's Stepchildren" is often cited as the "first interracial kiss" depicted on television, between James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), but the reality is not so straightforward.
A 1968 episode of Star Trek, "Plato's Stepchildren", [12] [13] which first aired on November 22, 1968, was until recently often referred to as the first interracial kiss on television. [14] William Shatner claims that his lips did not touch those of Nichelle Nichols. [citation needed] However, she asserted that the kiss was real. [15]
The episode, titled “Lost in Translation,” planted the seeds of who this younger Kirk will grow into through his amusing interactions with both Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) and his older brother ...
In her role as Lieutenant Uhura, Nichols kissed white actor William Shatner (as Captain James T. Kirk) in the November 22, 1968 Star Trek episode "Plato's Stepchildren". It has been cited as the first example of an interracial kiss on U.S. television, although several earlier instances have been identified. [28]