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Star Trek fans have held the national stereotype of being way too rabid about things for decades but they’re probably the nicest fan base in all of science fiction and the one least likely to have a large faction of them absolutely lose it over a torpedo being fired by a woman or dumb shit like that

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    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      14 days ago

      And of course it shall always be the first kiss between a black woman and a white man in space on tv.

      I cracked up a bit at this. That was a great write up, I didn’t know before about Desilu’s involvement in making that kiss happen and their earlier milestone, that’s quite cool.

    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world
      English
      72·
      14 days ago

      Specifically why I said black/white. and peck on the cheek isn’t consider a “kiss” by most people. (although it probably caused a stir). This was also right in the middle of the black civil rights movement which made it that much more risky.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        121·
        14 days ago

        Okay then, you’ll have to go with Sammy again and Nancy Sinatra:

        That would have been in 1967. Plato’s Stepchildren was a year later.

        On top of that, you have to further specify that this is only on American TV, because Gordon Heath kissed Rosemary Harris in a production of Othello on the BBC in 1955.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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            57·
            14 days ago

            Do you think insulting a mod will go well for you? And congratulations for proving the above meme incorrect about Star Trek being the nicest fan base.

            Showing you that a passionate kiss between a white woman and a black woman happened on British television over a decade before Star Trek is not being pedantic. You were just wrong.