Type | Episode |
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Date | 1968-11-22 |
Star Trek: The Original Series
3x65
This episode contains the famous kiss between Uhura and Kirk. But this kiss is not actually as straightforward a gesture of racial equality as it appears. Although Kirk seems to spend almost every episode kissing one or other (white-skinned or in one case green-skinned) alien, so much so that a rather troglodyte version of ‘command masculinity’ is constructed by the show, his solitary kiss with a black-skinned woman is a fraught affair. He does not want to kiss Uhura, perhaps because she is one of his crew (although he has no problem desiring white-skinned members of his crew in other episodes), and she does not want to kiss him. They are both compelled to kiss by evil, mind-controlling aliens, who force this degrading and ‘wrong’ spectacle for their own entertainment.
Character
Type Name
Alexander
None Michael Dunn
Dionyd
None Derek Partridge
Eraclitus
None Ted Scott
Parmen
None Liam Sullivan
Philana
None Barbara Babcock
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Role Character
Barbara Babcock
Actor
David Alexander
Director
Derek Partridge
Actor
Liam Sullivan
Actor
Meyer Dolinsky
Author
Michael Dunn
Actor
Ted Scott
Actor
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