From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: anim8rfsk@cox.net   
   Subject: Re: The Kiss   
      
   In article ,   
    Wiseguy  wrote:   
      
   > "Will Dockery"  wrote in   
   > news:lirerr$52m$1@dont-email.me:    
   >    
   > > The first "inter racial" kiss ever on television, Star Trek always was   
   > > years ahead of the rest:   
   > >    
   > > http://www.blastr.com/2013-4-19/little-known-sci-fi-fact-uhuras-famed-   
   > t   
   > > rek-kiss-wasnt-meant-be-kirk    
   > >    
   > > In a Vancouver Sun interview, actress Nichelle Nichols recalled the   
   > > story of that famous kiss, revealing that she had been practicing with   
   > > Leonard Nimoy (not a bad way to spend the time) when Shatner saw them   
   > > smooching.    
   > >    
   > > "Bill Shatner saw what was going on and he said, 'Woah, woah, woah. If   
   > > anybody is gonna get to kiss Lieutenant Uhura it's gonna be me.' And   
   > > he had the whole thing changed so the first interracial kiss was with   
   > > Lieutenant Uhura and Captain Kirk."   
   > > "Bill wanted to rehearse all the time. He said he wanted to get this   
   > > right! I said to him, "It's right, it's right. I promise you, it's   
   > > right." And the camera was shaking and the director was laughing his   
   > > head off. We really had a good time."    
   > >    
   > >    
   >    
   > Doesn't matter.  It looked so phony onscreen the actors may as well as    
   > not have kissed.  Some reports have said they didn't actually kiss. Now    
   > if they had shown a real kiss, Star Trek may claim some fame.  But they    
   > blew it.     
   >    
   >    
   > It has also been said that they didn't want Uhura to kiss Spock because    
   > Spock was an alien and they wanted to show white and black characters    
   > kissing, which makes more sense.  Also there has been the previous Spock    
   > and Chapel relationship so it makes more sense for Spock to be with    
   > Chapel from the beginning.   
      
   I think this is more likely more of the retcon Shatbashing from Nichelle    
   and Takei.   
      
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   Wait - are you saying that ClodReamer was wrong, or lying?   
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