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anyone that tries to say star trek has "gone woke" or some stupid shit like that clearly isn't a fan of it and just trying to rile up stuff. I mean come on... how can someone say that and have watched the shows LOL
- Yeah, its not like Star Trek suddenly went woke, its been woke. First ever TV kiss between mixed races was between Kirk and Uhura. Scandalous.
  
  That's actually a common misconception. Not to downplay the significance of what Shatner and Nichols pulled off to get around the various censors (ruining alternate takes and such), but many TV shows did it before Star Trek.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_interracial_kiss_on_television
  
  Shatner is on that list multiple times. That man had an agenda.
  
  He likes his coffee how he likes his women.
  
  To go?
  
  easily within reach?
  
  Ground up in a bag in the freezer?
  
  Mostly Asian?
  
  I think it was the first one that was both broadcast nationally in a primetime slot and where the actors were easily identifiable as having different ethnicities on a tiny TV screen. Would explain the misconception.
  
  I think it certainly was the most noticeable of anything shown on American TV at that point. But the British had us beat by years.
  
  Late 30s here- it blows my mind that we don't have to look very far into that past for the Shatner/Nichols smooch to be remarkable.
  It's uplifting to me. This present world can be ugly, but it's comforting to think that the kiss is almost mundane when compared to the present.
  A win is a win!
  
  I stand corrected! Thanks for the info, I've believed that since 7th grade when I first learned of it from one of my teachers who was a massive Trekkie.
  
  It's literally like 80% of the show's concept. The idea was to hide morality plays behind wacky alien makeup.
  
  And they're not even that woke. Afaik they still ocasionally eat animals in the 24th century. (Unless they're Vulcan.) Watch The Orville if you want some proper progressive shit 😆
  
  They have food replicators. The only thing not vegan about replicated meat is that they'd probably use your poop as bulk material to synthesize stuff
  
  Pretty ure I saw Riker cooking with eggs at some point. And who knows what neelix gets up to in the galley