{"id":75487,"date":"2016-11-24T10:58:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T10:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/11\/24\/cracked-in-1968-the-star-trek-cast-and-ocrew\/"},"modified":"2018-08-31T04:23:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T04:23:54","slug":"cracked-in-1968-the-star-trek-cast-and-ocrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/11\/24\/cracked-in-1968-the-star-trek-cast-and-ocrew\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-75487 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/11\/24\/cracked-in-1968-the-star-trek-cast-and-ocrew\/attachment\/75488\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tumblr_oh01u8gKs11qz5q5lo1_400-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tumblr_oh01u8gKs11qz5q5lo1_400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/tumblr_oh01u8gKs11qz5q5lo1_400-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cracked.tumblr.com\/post\/153517920666\/in-1968-the-star-trek-cast-and-ocrew-were-filming\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">cracked<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In 1968, the Star Trek cast and ocrew were filming the episode \u201cPlato\u2019s Stepchildren,\u201d which featured aliens using mind control to force Captain Kirk (William Shatner) to make out with Communications Officer Uhura (Nichelle Nichols). You know: standard classic Star Trek stuff. Star Trek just wasn\u2019t Star Trek if Kirk wasn\u2019t being goaded by an alien god into some sort of sexual harassment. But when it came time to shoot that scene, the director and some NBC suits got uncomfortable \u2013 not because of the weird consent issues (this was the \u201860s, after all; slapping a woman was considered foreplay), but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksofdoom.com\/2012\/09\/08\/interview-star-treks-nichelle-nichols-talks-about-her-famous-kiss-with-captain-kirk\" target=\"_blank\">because Nichols is black<\/a>. Up until that point, scripted interracial kisses on television just weren\u2019t done. The actors wanted to shoot the scene as it was, but since they weren\u2019t in charge, there was only one thing they could do: sabotage.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Show creator Gene Roddenberry had suggested a compromise: they\u2019d shoot two versions of the scene, one with the kiss, and one with a hug, and use whichever worked better. Everyone knew which version NBC was going to want to use, but luckily Shatner had a plan. See, a director can\u2019t see <i>exactly\u00a0<\/i>what the camera is picking up \u2013 only the camera operator can. So while they were shooting the versions of the scene that would preserve the purity of the white race, Shatner positioned himself so that the director couldn\u2019t see his face, stared right into the camera, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=3hKKkGhEDoU#t=439\" target=\"_blank\">made a bunch of stupid faces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The director, thinking he\u2019d won, immediately called a wrap and sent everyone home. It wasn\u2019t until they were going over the dailies that they realized what had happened. They were forced to run the scene as originally scripted, resigning themselves to having to face an explosion of controversy that (twist!) never happened.<\/p>\n<p>Truly, it was a leap forward for human rights, although whether Shatner was fighting for the progression of society or just couldn\u2019t stand to miss an opportunity to get busy on national television is anybody\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n<h2><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_20670_6-sneaky-ways-movies-tv-shows-outsmarted-censors.html?wa_user1=2&amp;wa_user2=Movies+%26+TV&amp;wa_user3=article&amp;wa_user4=companion\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>6 Sneaky Ways Movies and TV Shows Outsmarted the Censors<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/b><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cracked: In 1968, the Star Trek cast and ocrew were filming the episode \u201cPlato\u2019s Stepchildren,\u201d which featured aliens using mind control to force Captain Kirk (William Shatner) to make out with Communications Officer Uhura (Nichelle Nichols). You know: standard classic Star Trek stuff. Star Trek just wasn\u2019t Star Trek if Kirk wasn\u2019t being goaded by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/11\/24\/cracked-in-1968-the-star-trek-cast-and-ocrew\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[87,5419,61,19,501,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75489,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75487\/revisions\/75489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}