Don’t waste my fucking time, LEN, hop to it!
can we talk about how this was the 1960s
and a black woman just told a white southern dude to
GET HIS SHIT TOGETHER AND DO WHAT SHE TELLS HIMand she’s correct and just in doing so and everyone
including the audience
knows itthis was on tv
in the 60s
god i love nichelle nichols so fucking much
It’s great because most younger people today would barely blink at a scene like this, but then you remember what kind of time this was written in, and… bam.
Also remember that DeForest Kelly went along with it. The white southern gentleman could’ve fought the scene, played it tougher …DeForest wasn’t like that. You know he wanted this moment as much as Nichelle did. It’s a beautiful moment that these two deliver perfectly, at the precise cultural moment it would have the best impact.
There is practically nothing about this series I don’t love.
It was written by a man who had the imagination to dream up a world where poverty had been eliminated - where equality was simply a Thing - where an entire world of humanity had found a common thread and had moved from fighting each-other because there was nothing left to fight for (For good reasons rather than dystopian bad ones) and have turned their endless drive toward exploring the universe around them.
It was unapologetic about it’s blatant sociopolitical commentary - it did not shy away from the hard stuff and it didn’t pull punches.
The cast was intentionally diverse. It put women and people of color and political enemies (russians) all together, working together in harmony, toward a common goal without falling back on stereotypes or dehumanizing any of them.
And it was backed and produced by an independently wealthy woman who refused to let this little show fall to the sidelines because big production companies didn’t want it. A little known fact: Lucille Ball, who owned Desilu Productions (Who bought out Desi Arnez’s portion when they divorced), gave Star Trek the green light. Later, she would save the show from certain cancellation by over-riding her own board and keeping the show.
The producers consulted NASA and other scientific pioneers when creating their world - and in turn, the scientific pioneers looked at what Star Trek had come up with and strove toward recreating it.
Science drove Star Trek and Star Trek drove Science.
I f*cking love this show.