# Star Trek: Where no man has gone before **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-where-no-man-has-gone-before/283139 "2005-01-05T03:23:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-where-no-man-has-gone-before/283139/61 "2005-01-07T06:24:16Z")
true. In fact, 1966 is a good time for colour. Coloured TVs Coloured people. You get the idea. Mind you I’m sure in the South there are some who may still use teh term Negress. I can’t see why when the term Coloured woman seems so much more progressive. That aside. It is good to see no one is smoking on the show. Just a dreadful habit. No one really drinking either. kudos! Though the pill popping seems much. Is it wise to give an unconcious man (Even if he is Vulcanian) a pill to revive him? ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-where-no-man-has-gone-before/283139/62 "2005-01-07T08:22:39Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > I’m old enough to remeber _Star Trek_ the first time around. And in 1966, “Negro” was the preferred term. “Negress” wasn’t as common, but was still used by those who thought of themselves as genteel, e.g., headline in the Fond du Lac (Wis.) Reporter from 1966: “Negress Is Approved for District Judge”. > > “Black” didn’t predominate until about 1968. No kidding? Well how about that? I betcha nobody was saying “negress” on the coasts, though. Apparently, some people still say “Oriental” in the midwest, 30 years after they switched to “Asian” on the West Coast. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-where-no-man-has-gone-before/283139/63 "2005-01-07T08:24:00Z")
[Sorry, I totally broke character there.] ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-where-no-man-has-gone-before/283139/64 "2005-01-16T02:45:57Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > No kidding? Well how about that? I betcha nobody was saying “negress” on the coasts, though. Ethel Waters, interviewed by Murrah Schumach in _The New York Times_, 1964: > [@](#): > > “I don’t believe I’ll ever think old,” she said. “I’ll always be able to laugh. Negroes know how to laugh. We should be proud of ourselves as Negroes. We know how to enjoy life. I’m not sorry I’m a Negress. I look all around me and I see suffering, and suffering is color blind, like love.” James M. Naughton, on a New York City parade for Presidential candidate Nelson Rockefeller, in _The New York Times_, 1968: > [@](#): > > A young man across the way throws ticker tape from his window, then holds a “Eugene” sign. A fat negress on the street says, passionately, “Rocky! Rocky!” Kids begin to clog access to the auto by walking alongside it. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-where-no-man-has-gone-before/283139/65 "2005-01-16T04:15:17Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > “Negress” wasn’t as common, but was still used by those who thought of themselves as genteel, e.g., headline in the Fond du Lac (Wis.) Reporter from 1966: “Negress Is Approved for District Judge”. Wow. I guess it will be really something if Uhura gets called a “Negress” in a later episode. I’m sure it will never ever happen, though. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-where-no-man-has-gone-before/283139/66 "2005-01-16T05:13:05Z")
> [@](#): > > So, what happened to McCoy? Please don’t tell me he’s been replaced. He was probably just a one-shot character from last week’s episode because that show had a medical crisis. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-where-no-man-has-gone-before/283139.md?page=3)