Post by StarFuryG7 on May 18, 2012 11:19:42 GMT -5
Over at Blastr:
When Star Trek TOS first aired in 1966, the sci-fi series had one of the most racially diverse casts ever seen on TV and featured minorities like no one else had done before. And from the stories that were passed on for years, everyone thought it was Gene Roddenberry himself who pushed for the idea. Now an historian is saying that's not what really happened.
Trek historian says myth about why Nichelle Nichols got hired is wrong
When Star Trek TOS first aired in 1966, the sci-fi series had one of the most racially diverse casts ever seen on TV and featured minorities like no one else had done before. And from the stories that were passed on for years, everyone thought it was Gene Roddenberry himself who pushed for the idea. Now an historian is saying that's not what really happened.