They're like animals-- vicious, seductive.
They say no human male can resist them.

That's a line from The Menegarie Part II. Given Gaila's popularity, it occurred to me that the role she played, well the size of it at least, is what I expected from Uhura.

I also think that were that the case, Uhura would not have had as much fandom attention as Gaila ( Read more... )

The blatantly racist and sexist bile spewed by Harlan Ellison pretty much makes it impossible for me to ever enjoy "The City on the Edge of Forever" again or anything else this man has ever touched.

Way to soil your legacy in your later years, dude.

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This seems to be the year for really problematic TOS tchotchkes from Hallmark:


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I was absolutely horrified when I saw this post about an original series Uhura Christmas ornament.

See if you can spot why.

I really need to get a *headdesk* icon, but failing that, this is the best I've got.

If you havent read Nichelle Nichols' autobiography? Catch a case if you have to, but get your hands on a copy and read it! By page 21 she was already dropping science about Black women's (nonexistent) status in pre-civil rights America, based on the experiences of her (mixed race) family. She is brutally honest. Go get it.

xposted.

The origins of Spock as the "Other", the "Outsider" and the Vulcan salute:

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As an agnosto-atheist, the whole idea of the essence of god thing doesn't really do it for me.
However, I come from a family of Kohanim (the Priest tribe of the Jewish people) and the one time a year I do attend shul (synagogue) it's to hear and sing "Kol Nidrei" and to ( Read more... )

The Indian-Star Trek Connection - notes on Native Americans in Star Trek (@  Blue Corn Comics, via newspaper_rock)

Just thought the comm might be interested . . .

I'm linking to this discussion, http://community.livejournal.com/spock_uhura/130803.html, not for us to comment on the huge amount of failsauce poured on that thread or to tisk, tisk that, but to try and discuss the OP's topic hopefully WITHOUT all the fail ( Read more... )

I went to see the movie again last night ( Read more... )