Mr. Sulu and Lt. Uhura Looking For Love

[Spock's Barber]

All the major characters in TOS had episodes that were partially, at least, devoted to their love interests, except for Uhura and Sulu. Does anyone know of any unpublished story outlines or unfilmed scripts that further developed these two characters' love lives?

 

[Sir Rhosis]

The first two drafts of the script which became "This Side of Paradise" (first entitled "Power Play," and later "The Way of The Spores") featured Sulu as the former lover of Leila Kalomi.

Sir Rhosis

 

[Nyotarules]

In the future humans of colour will be asexual...sorry Uhura but thank you JJ!

 

[Spock's Barber]

The first two drafts of the script which became "This Side of Paradise" (first entitled "Power Play," and later "The Way of The Spores") featured Sulu as the former lover of Leila Kalomi.

Sir Rhosis

Well, it sounds like Sulu had his chances to be a lover boy in the initial drafts, but Spock-O ended up in the limelight with Leila. Poor Uhura is still a member of the lonely hearts club. Maybe if the 4th season had come to fruition she might have had a love interest sometime.

 

[1001001]

They were saving her for Scotty in TFF.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Sulu has a fembot love interest at the end of "Shore Leave," and he flirts with a hippie in "The Way to Eden."

Uhura flirts with her Swahili fantasy in "The Man Trap."

 

[Spock's Barber]

Sulu has a fembot love interest at the end of "Shore Leave," and he flirts with a hippie in "The Way to Eden."

Uhura flirts with her Swahili fantasy in "The Man Trap."

Yes, but I meant where a major plot element involved the character and their love interest, such as Chapel in WALGMO, Spock in AT, Scotty in TLOZ, etc.

 

[UnknownSample]

Those characters had trouble getting screen time at all.

 

[TLOZ Lover]

The first two drafts of the script which became "This Side of Paradise" (first entitled "Power Play," and later "The Way of The Spores") featured Sulu as the former lover of Leila Kalomi.

Sir Rhosis

Gulp!

 

[TLOZ Lover]

They were saving her for Scotty in TFF.

Even James Doohan had difficulty understanding why that was written into the script.

 

[Push The Button]

Even James Doohan had difficulty understanding why that was written into the script.

Maybe they had one of those pacts: "If we're both still single in 25 years, we'll marry each other."

 

[johnnybear]

Nichelle was a cracker indeed back in the sixties!
JB

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Nichelle was a cracker indeed back in the sixties!
JB

Not in the American sense of the word, where cracker is a derogatory term aimed at whites. I'm deducing it means something better in the UK.

 

[johnnybear]

Really? Derogatory term aimed at whites? You'll have to exlain to explain that to me, Zac because over here it means something nice or pretty or sexy or very well done indeed!
JB

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Really? Derogatory term aimed at whites? You'll have to exlain to explain that to me, Zac because over here it means something nice or pretty or sexy or very well done indeed!
JB

It's Zap. Anyway, the U.S. usage is along these lines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(pejorative)

We loved the Robbie Coltrane detective series Cracker, in which it went without saying that he "cracked cases" for the cops, and thus the title. We have a similarly titled show over here called The Closer in which an elderly woman successfully interrogates suspects and thus "closes" a lot of cases.

 

[1001001]

We have a similarly titled show over here called The Closer in which an elderly woman successfully interrogates suspects and thus "closes" a lot of cases.

Elderly?

Dude, she was 40 when that show started!

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Elderly?

Dude, she was 40 when that show started!

Yeah, I was kidding about that part.

 

[johnnybear]

It's Zap. Anyway, the U.S. usage is along these lines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(pejorative)

We loved the Robbie Coltrane detective series Cracker, in which it went without saying that he "cracked cases" for the cops, and thus the title. We have a similarly titled show over here called The Closer in which an elderly woman successfully interrogates suspects and thus "closes" a lot of cases.

Yes, sorry about that, my computer has been doing some weird things lately! Very interesting about cracker though as I thought it would be the same everywhere in the English speaking world!
JB

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Yes, sorry about that, my computer has been doing some weird things lately!

Any computer will do weird things with the right man at the keyboard. Just ask one Mr. Richard Daystrom.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Yes, sorry about that, my computer has been doing some weird things lately!
JB

If it's a Multitronic M Series Computer you'd better disconnect it at the source.