What is your opinion of season 3 as a whole?
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While I agree about SNW Uhura, this assumption Kelvin Uhura always bothers me. She was top in the class yet didn't warrant posting to a prestigious assignment? That was strange and she wasn't assigned because she was sleeping with Spock but because she should have been there regardless of her relationship.
Oh, I'm sure her assignment to the Enterprise was warranted, but I've just never been 100% onboard with the whole sleeping with your professor part of their relationship. The line about her demonstrating on multiple occasions her exceptional "aural sensitivity" didn't help. I'm sorry, I know a blowjob joke when I hear one.
I did not like it either but her assignment was not due to her sleeping with the professor was my point. Don't care about a blowjob joke.
Yes, i remember Spock tried to assign her to the Farragut to make it appear that he wasn't playing favourites. Then she basically pulled the girlfriend card and got her way. Kind of a low point in a film I generally enjoy a great deal.
I did not like it either but her assignment was not due to her sleeping with the professor was my point. Don't care about a blowjob joke.
The main cast of TOS was only Kirk, Spock and McCoy, as reflected by the fact they were the only ones to be listed in the opening credits. And McCoy didn't become main cast until the second season. The rest were all recurring guest stars or even co-stars. Now yes, these days, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu and Chekov are considered to be part of TOS's central ensemble by virtue of being the ones who appeared in the six original movies, but that's irrelevant to the time it was made, where anyone who knew anything about television only considered Kirk, Spock and McCoy to be TOS's main cast.
The MLK story? Seriously? His own family has refuted that.
Uhura did give her age to Mariner but admittedly it is hard to tell whether it's 2259 or 2260 when she said it now.
I may be very wrong (would not be the first time) but I thought the way their relationship was told was of someone being so exceptional piquing Spock's interest as opposed to her getting where she did because she was with Spock
It is emphasised when Spock tries to assign her to the Farragut (overcorrecting to avoid the appearance of bias) and she, in no uncertain terms, tells him she has earned the Enterprise and shouldn't miss out because she is dating him
You are absolutely right and I agree with you...but it is very easy to see them as an ensemble if your first introduction to TOS was the films. Obviously Kirk, Spock, McCoy were the leads but the rest of the crew was presented as main characters and it wasn't until I was much older (saw my first TOS film in about 1994 but didn't really watch the series properly until well into the 2000s (I'd seen the "key" episodes but I reckon only 15-20 of them at most before the digital era of TV started in mid 2000s and it was shown on like Channel 78 or sommat)
Even then it was only when I joined this board and learned more from the BTS and production side that I even truly comprehended the gulf between the trio and the rest.
When? Where?
Just did some digging through other times the story's been brought up here on Trek BBS and it looks like I got my wires crossed. The issue wasn't that MLK's family refuted it, but rather Nichelle Nichols herself was frequently changing the details of the story over the years, leading some to question the veracity of it.
The closest I've seen to the King family addressing the subject was in the doco Woman In Motion, where MLK III appears, but he never actually addresses Star Trek or Uhura/Nichols. The way the bit is cut suggests he didn’t state that his family watched the show, because if he had, they would certainly have used it.
Absolutely true. It just rings wrong in many ways. "Aural sensitivity" doesn't do the scene any favors.
As Archer (secret agent not NX-01 captain) would say - "phrasing"
Never mind the innuendo. She's throwing Spock's own words back in his face - quoting the report card he wrote, in effect saying, "You said I was qualified to be on the Enterprise, after all." Apparently Uhura's ears are so good they impress a Vulcan. High praise, indeed. Yet serving on the same ship is where he draws the line - she's practically already the teacher's pet, in the traditional sense.
Yes she was considered a main. She was in most of the episides.
Doesn't make her a main character, as has been said many times. Shatner, Nimoy and later Kelly. They're the main characters. That's it.
Um, no. Not by any definition used, especially in the 60s.
In retrospect only, not at the time, and certainly not in terms of billing or studio contracts.
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