20-8-2011
You know, I’ve GOT to admit, I couldn’t RESIST that title … !
You know, I’ve GOT to admit, I couldn’t RESIST that title … !
Well, you can’t, can you … ?
Not when you consider that that Lieutenant Commander Chekov’s most notorious line in Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country actually has a bit of a story too it.
From the little I’ve picked up over the years … ?
Originally the line had been scripted for Nichelle Nichol’s Uhura.
And was reassigned, after Nichols gently raised objections.
Can’t say I blame her, in a way: the line matches the title of the 1967 film, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, generally revered amongst Afro-Americans for its positive take on mixed raced marriage …
And for being released in the year that laws against mixed-race marriages were finally made illegal in the US.
I don’t think I can blame her somehow.
Especially as, from what I can recall from reading her biography, many years ago … ?
She was thinking of leaving the cast of the show, at the end of the second series of the show: the only person who stopped her … ?
Was Reverend Martin Luther King, who told her she was the only black woman in an otherwise all-white cast: and what’s more, playing an character who could easily be replaced by a white one.
Was Reverend Martin Luther King, who told her she was the only black woman in an otherwise all-white cast: and what’s more, playing an character who could easily be replaced by a white one.
Well, I was impressed, if no-one else was …
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