From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: Paul.Duggan@jcu.edu.au   
   Subject: Re: 10 TV shows that changed the world   
      
   On Feb 26, 8:24apm, "Danie...@teranews.com"   
    wrote:   
   > Wiseguy wrote:   
   > > ToolPackinMama awrote innews:j0usen$9ub$1@dont-   
   > > email.me:   
   >   
   > >> Number one? aSTAR TREK   
   >   
   > >> <<   
   >   
   > >> [excerpt]   
   >   
   > >> ...Since it really took off in the 1950s, lots of directors, writers   
   > > and   
   > >> producers have used the scripted format to push progressive ideas and   
   > >> help mold the country into a better, more accepting placeugame-   
   > > changing   
   > >> television. So while you might be concerned at the preponderance of   
   > >> programming that panders to our basest instincts for ratings and ad   
   > >> dollars, here are 10 really good reasons for progressives to flick on   
   > >> the setuor at least the DVD player.   
   >   
   > >> 1. Star Trek   
   >   
   > >> In 1966, Gene RoddenberryAs popular sci-fi novels were developed into   
   > > a   
   > >> television show that would translate its promise to oboldly go where   
   > > no   
   > >> man had gone beforeo into a mission to make cultural inroads....   
   > >> "Star Trek" also boasts the first-ever interracial kiss on national   
   > >> television, between William ShatnerAs Captain Kirk and Nichelle   
   > > NicholsA   
   > >> Uhura. That was in November 1967ufive months after the United States   
   > >> Supreme Court struck down all 16 anti-miscegenation laws in the   
   > > country.   
   >   
   > >>http://www.alternet.org/story/151824/10   
   > > _tv_shows_that_changed_the_world/   
   >   
   > > The "kiss" was in November 1968.   
   > > What Gene Roddenberry "popular" sci-fi novels were developed into Star   
   > > Trek?   
   >   
   > (Janice Rand as Grace Whitney and Christine Chapel as Majel Barrett)   
   >   
   > I thought it was the other ways around!!   
   Majel Barrett as Janice Rand and Grace Whitney as Christine Chapel?   
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