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Captain James T. Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura […] locked lips in the third-season episode, ‘Plato’s Stepchildren.’ The scene […] performed by William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols – troubled executives at NBC. […] To be a little more accurate, it was the first lip-to-lip kiss between a Black woman and a white man on US television. There had been interracial kisses before – even in STAR TREK Kirk kisses the part-Filipino BarBara Luna (Marlena Moreau) and the part-Vietnamese France Nuyen (Elaan) – but when ‘Plato’s Stepchildren’ was aired in 1968, sexual relationships between Black and white people were definitely a sensitive issue. (English)
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