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William Shatner & Yvonne Craig 1968
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An old TV ad for Star Trek. If you look closely, you’ll see the Enterprise is upside down.
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“Uhura” comes from the Swahili word UHURU meaning “freedom”. Uhura was pretty much the first ever black main character on American television who was not a maid or a domestic servant in 1966. TV network NBC refused to let Nichelle Nichols be a regular, claiming Deep South affiliates would be angered, so Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hired her as a “day worker,” but still included her in almost every episode. She actually made more money than any of the other actors through this workaround, and it was kept secret from the other actors, but it was still a humiliating second-class status. The network people made life hard for Nichols, constantly trying to pare down her screen time, purposefully dropping racist comments in her presence and even withholding her fan mail from her.This deplorable state of affairs led Nichols to make the decision to quit after the 1st season, but then she happened to meet the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. who pleaded with her to stick with the show because as a Black woman she was portraying the first non-stereotypical role on television.
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Clint Eastwood with his children Kyle and Alison on the set of Star Trek: The Motion Picture circa 1979.
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The Grim Gallery: Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry surrounded by Don Post masks based on Star Trek characters. The Captain Kirk mask would famously go on to be the mask worn by the Michael Myers character in the Halloween movies.
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September 8, 1966 - Star Trek Premieres
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