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- Subject: Re: Blacks on Star Trek
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:17:33 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.022859.17716@midway.uchicago.edu>
- thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
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- >
- >In article <C1HDMy.KGt@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jj6707@meibm12.cen.uiuc.edu (John E Jablonski) writes:
- >>In article <C1H2u8.Cu9@ns1.nodak.edu>, green@plains.NoDak.edu (Brad Green) writes:
- >>|> maybe someone can give me some good role models for blacks on TV.
- >>|>
- >> I don't watch that much TV, but how about Star Trek?
- >> Original--Uhura-Chief Communications Officer
- >> Next Gen--Jordie (sp) -head engineer
- >> Deep Space 9-- the commander of the space station is black
- >>
- >>And the best part is they all achieved their success as individuals.
- >>There was no government program to "help" them.
- >
- >Oh yeah? What do you think Starfleet Academy is? You don't think that
- >they don't have quotas? What about Gene Roddenberry's original memo
- >requiring that 40% of the crew of the Enterprise be women? Or that
- >William Shatner's wife played the chief nurse? Is that nepotism, or
- >what?
- >
- >For that matter, how many blacks were on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century?
- >That was a much better show than Star Trek, anyway. Gil Gerard could beat
- >up William Shatner any day. That'll teach Kirk to have an affair with
- >Spock.
- >
- >Ted "the net will be closing in five minutes" Frank
- >--
- >ted frank | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu
- >standard disclaimers | void where prohibited
- >the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
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- I had never heard that Majel Barrett was ever married to Shatner; she WAS,
- as all know, married to the late Gene R.; as his widow now she is,
- I suppose, "Keeper of the Flame."
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- Another Rust-Belt Yankee Exile in Charlotte!
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- Any opinions expressed are mine, not those of the Atkins Library.
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- Bruce Alan Wilson ali00baw@unccvm.uncc.edu
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