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  4. From: jim@specialix.com (Jim Maurer)
  5. Subject: Re: Blacks on Star Trek 
  6. Organization: Specialix Inc.
  7. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:24:42 GMT
  8. Message-ID: <C1IwD7.FE3@specialix.com>
  9. References: <1993Jan26.025815.8046@wam.umd.edu> <C1H2u8.Cu9@ns1.nodak.edu> <C1HDMy.KGt@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan27.022859.17716@midway.uchicago.edu>
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  12. thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
  13. >>In article <C1H2u8.Cu9@ns1.nodak.edu>, green@plains.NoDak.edu (Brad Green) writes:
  14. >>And the best part is they all achieved their success as individuals.
  15. >>There was no government program to "help" them.
  16.  
  17. >Oh yeah?  What do you think Starfleet Academy is?  You don't think that
  18. >they don't have quotas?  What about Gene Roddenberry's original memo
  19. >requiring that 40% of the crew of the Enterprise be women?  Or that
  20. >William Shatner's wife played the chief nurse?  Is that nepotism, or
  21. >what?
  22.  
  23. The actress who played Nurse Chapel was Majel Barrett, and she was
  24. Gene Roddenberry's wife, *not* William Shatner's.  And I believe
  25. they got married after she got the part.
  26.