Talk:Star Trek/Archive 5

message: The article Spot (Star Trek) is currently up for VfD.  Please see the VfD Discussion page to either help keep or delete the page. --AllyUnion (Talk) 06:03, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spot (Star Trek) 

message: It's entirely possible that they have inserted the "kiss shown" version in newer broadcasts of the show. But the original broadcast had it blocked, according to the IMDB and other sources I've read. But I WAS wrong; I said it was Kirk's head, it was actually Uhura's. Relevant passages from the IMDB:
:The first interracial kiss on American network television was in the episode "Plato's Stepchildren," which aired on 22 Nov 1968, when Captain Kirk ( William Shatner) kissed Lieutenant Uhura ( Nichelle Nichols). The studio expressed some concern, and it was suggested instead that Spock should kiss Uhura 'to make it less of a problem for the southern [US] audience'. Some stations in the South originally refused to air the episode. Kirk did not kiss Uhura *voluntarily*; they were forced to do it by aliens controlling their bodies. So the first interracial kiss, although between two of the good guys, was the moral equivalent of sexual assault.
:Despite the controversy of the first interracial kiss of Kirk and Uhura on television in the episode "Plato's Stepchildren," they never actually kissed on-screen - Kirk turns away from the camera as they draw closer keeping Uhura in front of him, obscuring the fact that their lips stay an inch or so apart.
They could be wrong. --Golbez 14:36, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)
:Make no mistake about it, in many, many interviews and books, Mr. Shatner has admitted that he had, up to that point, wanted to kiss Ms. Nichols on screen. --AllyUnion 13:26, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Kiss 

message: Just started the above page.  Please leave your comments at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Star Trek.--StAkAr Karnak 03:00, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Trek]]

message: What happened here? All that's left is one line saying "You can't have Star Trek without the science." That's pretty useless on its own -- has something been cut that shouldn't have been? 23skidoo 17:04, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Added by User:Roberto1221 on 23 Nov 2004.  Seems to me a new user who added that portion of the article, left unnoticed until now. --AllyUnion (talk) 07:13, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Star Trek Science subsection 

message: Hi - I'm agreeing with the post directly above. The sentence below is just nonsense and I'll remove it after checking back in a bit. I would like to to note that in terms either of technology or science, star trek is rather silly. I really do defy anyone to dispute that. Perhaps that is what the person who wrote that sentence was trying to say? In which case, I would disagree. We all like star trek because it portrays a vision of the future in which everyone tris to be the best person that they can; with cool spaceships to help them! Thats why they call it a fantasy!
Star Trek Science
Any decent Star Trek fan should know that even with technology you wouldn't get Star Trek without the science.
:Ah... Usenet Star Trek debates come to Wikipedia.... ;-) func(talk) 19:09, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: sense?

message: Do we have permission to use the images that are in this article? They all seem to be a giant copyvio to me. Spinboy 18:12, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Images

message: I removed this section from the article:
:In every episode of Star Trek some sort of technology from the shows period is used. The Technology is a important part of Star Trek, without it Star Trek would not be as popular as it is today. The most prominant piece of technolgy is probably the Warp Drive, the Starships of Star Trek use the Warp Drive to get around the Galaxy.
The above is not written in an encyclopedic manner. It suggests a POV, and doesn't really say anything coeherent. I believe there is a place for a technology section, (even a whole separate article), but the above is not a good way to go about it. This is a wikipedia featured article, and I think we need to strive for a certain level of encyclopedic quality and NPOV. func(talk) 19:20, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Star Trek Technology