The series that had a black female officer when segregation was still openly a thing? Totally not woke.
And where the actors had the first televised ‘interracial’ kiss
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this oft-repeated piece of Trek trivia is not true.
The first interracial kiss on American television was William Shatner and France Nuyen (of Asian decent) on the Ed Sullivan show, which happened in 1958, nearly 9 full years before William Shatner kissed Barbara Luna on Star Trek (1967).
And the absolute world’s first interracial tv kiss was in the UK during either the broadcast of the film The Seekers (1954) or during a BBC presentation of the play Othello in 1955. It’s either/or because the actual air date of The Seekers is unknown.
The series that had a black female officer when segregation was still openly a thing? Totally not woke.
And where the actors had the first televised ‘interracial’ kiss
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this oft-repeated piece of Trek trivia is not true.
The first interracial kiss on American television was William Shatner and France Nuyen (of Asian decent) on the Ed Sullivan show, which happened in 1958, nearly 9 full years before William Shatner kissed Barbara Luna on Star Trek (1967).
And the absolute world’s first interracial tv kiss was in the UK during either the broadcast of the film The Seekers (1954) or during a BBC presentation of the play Othello in 1955. It’s either/or because the actual air date of The Seekers is unknown.
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