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William Shatner as James T. Kirk and Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in the November 22, 1968 Star Trek episode, "Plato's Stepchildren.". 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.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the first broadcast of Star Trek, National Geographic noted the Kirk-Uhura kiss as "iconic", which they describe as connecting to the period's civil rights issues. [12] In 2016, Radio Times ranked the kiss between Uhura and Kirk as the 25th best moment in all Star Trek. [13]
The Star Trek kiss between Kirk and Uhura made history as one of the first between a black and white person on TV. It was 1968, the year that Martin Luther King was assassinated and only a year ...
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 Star Trek: Short Treks episode "The Trouble with Edward" reveals that tribbles were not originally "born pregnant", and in fact their reproductive rate was exceedingly slow. A Starfleet scientist, Edward Larkin, genetically engineered them into their current form, in an attempt to solve a planetary food shortage.
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In 2015, this episode was included in Geek.com's 35 greatest moments in Star Trek— they ranked Kirk's getting buried in tribbles the 29th greatest moment of all Star Trek. [87] 2016 was the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of Star Trek, which triggered a large amount of press including TV Guide ' s review of top Original Series ...
William Shatner [1] [2] OC (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor. In a career spanning seven decades, he is best known for his portrayal of James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, from his 1966 debut as the captain of the starship Enterprise in the second pilot of the first Star Trek television series to his final appearance as Captain Kirk in the seventh Star Trek feature film, Star ...