tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post929778474078756314..comments2024-03-16T18:38:04.996-04:00Comments on Critics At Large : Setting the Template: The Original Star TrekCritics at Largehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18073851963852030361noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-7009075230878499632013-06-12T23:48:18.418-04:002013-06-12T23:48:18.418-04:00Critics at Large's Shlomo Schwartzberg replies...Critics at Large's Shlomo Schwartzberg replies: "I should have written that Spock wasn't as major a character on the Star Trek pilot as he was in the series. It's been awhile since I saw The Cage. But whatever the context of the interracial kiss, it still counts since it happened. I always had a quarrel with the tentative nature of Kirk and Uhura's kiss, likely because they were too self conscious that they were making television history, but it's still a significant moment in the show, forced kiss or not.Critics at Largehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073851963852030361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-32949910181554427622013-06-12T23:35:10.749-04:002013-06-12T23:35:10.749-04:00The Spock of the original pilot acted quite differ...The Spock of the original pilot acted quite differently from the Spock of the eventual series. <br /><br />I think Majel Barrett's "Number One" character in "The Cage" would have been terribly memorable in its late-1960s context had that crew contingent been picked up by the network.Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00045124604089811698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-59967201690147515492013-06-12T15:15:13.429-04:002013-06-12T15:15:13.429-04:00"The first pilot of the show didn’t actually ..."The first pilot of the show didn’t actually feature Spock as a character at all; that version of Star Trek, which the network passed on, cast Majel Barrett, Roddenberry’s wife, as the Enterprise's first officer, instead of Spock. She later popped up on the actual series as Nurse Christine Chapel.)"<br /><br />Well, that's just not correct. Leonard Nimoy and Majel Barrett are both in the "The Cage," the series' first pilot episode.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cage_%28Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series%29<br /><br />And the interracial kiss between Kirk and Uhura doesn't really deserve credit, because they didn't kiss voluntarily. It was coerced by the telekinetic aliens in the episode "Plato's Stepchildren."<br /><br />dennishopperbook.comPeter L. Winklerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16005846686173676213noreply@blogger.com