Plato's Stepchildren: Why the Hate??

[T'Bonz]

I thought he did. It certainly looked like it.

 

[Ssosmcin]

I thought he did. It certainly looked like it.

You never actually see their lips touching. The actors were angled to keep the actual kiss out of the shot, and if you really look at it, it's pretty obvious the actors are not physically kissing. Mr. Shatner backs this up, I tend to believe it.

 

[Cakes488]

It was the cheek. Of course, Shatner didn't really kiss Nicholls on the lips either, as he later revealed in Star Trek Memories.

Yeah it was a "peck" on the cheek...hardly a real kiss, so the fact remains about Star Trek..... It's No matter that they really didn't kiss, it was intended that they did and that was clearly conveyed.

 

[Gary7]

Yeah it was a "peck" on the cheek...hardly a real kiss, so the fact remains about Star Trek..... It's No matter that they really didn't kiss, it was intended that they did and that was clearly conveyed.

Actually, it wasn't quite like that... lips were definitely involved, but only the lower lip--not "full mouth".

Nichols goes on and on about the kiss in her interview for the remastered DVD collection, claiming that Shatner caused them to do many many takes. But she never says anything about whether it was a full contact kiss or not.

Regardless, the video shows it all. To me, it looks like their lower lips are touching, but Shatner's upper lip is definitely not touching.

On the other hand, Nimoy definitely made full contact with Barrett.

 

[Cakes488]

Yeah it was a "peck" on the cheek...hardly a real kiss, so the fact remains about Star Trek..... It's No matter that they really didn't kiss, it was intended that they did and that was clearly conveyed.

Actually, it wasn't quite like that... lips were definitely involved, but only the lower lip--not "full mouth".

Nichols goes on and on about the kiss in her interview for the remastered DVD collection, claiming that Shatner caused them to do many many takes. But she never says anything about whether it was a full contact kiss or not.

Regardless, the video shows it all. To me, it looks like their lower lips are touching, but Shatner's upper lip is definitely not touching.

On the other hand, Nimoy definitely made full contact with Barrett.

Hi Gary...so you agree with me! I can tell you're a smart man!!! But I was referring to the peck that Bancroft gave Poitier at some Oscars bash in the early 60's...aka "the kiss heard all around the world"... so thank you for backing up my Kirk Kiss Claim.

 

[Captain Randy Hall]

Okay, Kirk slapping himself was funny, but other than that, it was painful to watch. I just thought it was shamelessly exploitive of the actors (the regulars, as well as the dwarf), with a script that called for them to humiliate themselves, in a way that did not serve the story or accomplish anything besides making the audience cringe. At least when Picard was humiliated in "Chain of Command", it was intense and dramatic. Here it was just hokey and lame.

What he said.

 

[wearenomad]

Christine and Uhura are so hot in this.