Star Trek at 50 Q&A with Nichelle Nichols

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Channel: BFI · 2016 · Film & Animation

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In the 1968 episode of Star Trek named ‘Plato’s Stepchildren’, Lieutenant Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) and Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) exchanged the first interracial kiss on US TV. Nichols joins filmmaker-broadcaster Thomasina Gibson and scientist-broadcasters Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Dr Kevin Fong to discuss the show’s impact on their own lives, its progressive stance on multiculturalism, and how its characters became role models.

Q&A hosted by broadcaster Samira Ahmed.

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