Leonard Nimoy fought for equal pay for Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura)

[Triana]

LINK:

http://m.lvsun.com/blogs/kats-report/2014/jul/30/star-treks-walter-koenig-still-secure-playing-chek/

[Lars39]

1. Sounds like Doohan was a good guy, too.

[TlalocW]

9. Doohan was a good guy

TlalocW

[backscatter712]

12. James Doohan was an incredible guy. He saved the life of a suicidal fan.

[msanthrope]

2. It was only logical. nt

[uponit7771]

3. Is it selfish of me to be upset that he's died? People like this don't.. there's not a lot of them

[Triana]

5. Not at all. I wish people like him could live forever! n/t

[calimary]

10. Certainly not! I'm in the same boat.

It's truly sad that he's gone. I'm sad. On a personal level I'm sad about this. I'm old enough to remember the original series. Loved it! It was always nice, even comforting, to know he was always there. That was happily realized by the way he kept turning up in the "Star Trek" universe. Now, there's a noticeable void.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

11. .

Yep.

[countryjake]

4. K&R!

[Iliyah]

6. Quite a few the cast members of the original Star Trek were liberals

including the creator, Gene R. NBC wanted Gene R. to dismantle Spock's character b/c it looked too much a devil.
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1966 - 1969, Star Trek hit on many social issues by way of science fiction. The first, on interracial kiss, black/white on the face in constant hatred and war against a race with opposite markings, and so forth.

[sir pball]

7. The kiss wasn't supposed to be, but Shatner made it happen

Apparently, and I can't find a citation at the moment, the direction was for them to just embrace - but in every shot besides the kiss, Shatner looked directly at the camera and made all sorts of hilarious, inappropriate faces, leaving the kiss as the only shot that could possibly be aired.

Might not be a true story, but it warms the cockles of myncold, dark heart regardless

[Iliyah]

8. French kissing no, sorta lips touching, yes