Star Trek: Where no man has gone before

[kingpengvin]

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?

[blowero]

@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.

[blowero]

[ Sorry, I totally broke character there. ]

[Walloon]

@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.

[Berkut]

@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.

[Little_Nemo]

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.