10 MORE Notorious Star Trek Urban Legends

[@TrekCulture]

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[@carlosrivas1629]

you realise a white man with Cuban ancestry is Spanish and there for European, also Spanish is a European language. you know this, please stop with the race crap and recognize ethnicity.

[@AndrewD8Red]

@@carlosrivas1629 So... the people in the USA who had grandparents from Ireland are still Irish? If anyone traces their lineage back far enough, they'll be African. I'm not sure the point you're trying to make, but I feel there may be a language barrier issue.

[@petercampbell8694]

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[@Hunteress14]

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[@paullaing5921]

Scopely? Well if its anything like their Scrabble Go game, it'll be a buggy, barely functional advert and microtransaction filled mess. Seriously, if they can't make a Scrabble game stable, then I have no hope for a Star Trek game.

[@kp1278]

I had the opportunity to work on STTNG for two seasons. During that time I had the opportunity to meet Ricardo Montalban and I can tell you that the pecs were definately real. He had a very strict and strong workout every day, despite being in horrible chronic pain from a spinal injury from an earlier film. One thing I always say when ever anyone asks. He was the lovliest man I have ever met, and on the day he passed, the world lost a living saint.

[@b33jal]

That's awesome. I've read elsewhere that people who have met him felt his presence and that he was lovely. Thanks for sharing !

[@samdog8087]

Im Jim Montalban.....he was a good dude

[@dhotnessmcawesome9747]

People tell me I take steroids and "always have". I'd be long dead by now, I don't even work out, I'm a gamer geek who does nothing for physical activity. Sometimes... Things happen. Dude just looked better than whiney lying babies. Happens.

[@char1737]

That was his body no false parts he always worked out as far as his time in Hollywood

[@triandfit1]

My father was delivering a package and was given his address by accident. He spoke with him for a few minutes and was invited to have dinner with Ricardo and his family. He said the exact same thing about him.

[@RobertWilke]

The thing with Montalbán being in that shape is he always was in that shape. Before he went into movies he was a body builder. So yes he had to work out but it's not like he hadn't done that before and knew how to get to that build.

[@stephaniegormley9982]

The thing that gave that rumor life was that chain he wore. It supposedly covered the border. If that was his own chest they s/have taken that out

[@ГришаФэша]

Ricardo Montalban got his muscles from an overdose of potions he drank on Fantasy Island.

[@lotstodo]

We are so lucky that Lucille Ball wanted original content for DesiLu.

[@DMSProduktions]

Lucy was a legend!

[@gohawks3571]

I Love You, Lucy! TY for Star Trek; what a gift! I think there's another show too that was around thanks to her, but it eludes me atm...

[@beauxr.benoit1374]

@@gohawks3571 The Untouchables, Mannix, And Mission:Impossible. along with Star Trek were/are the biggest shows that came from DesiLu Productions. The whole list is on Wikipedia.

[@gohawks3571]

@@beauxr.benoit1374 Mission: Impossible! That's what I was trying to remember👍 Those other ones too? Pretty cool. I love you, Lucy!

[@beauxr.benoit1374]

@@gohawks3571 They are all good shows

[@danielwillens5876]

I believe it was David Gerrold who said "Star Trek was successful because it had good Genes."

[@goodwilj]

I really like David Gerrold!

[@barbarasunday9892]

I always saw Picard as a well made statement against age biases.

[@AaronLitz]

Patrick Stewart was only _47_ when TNG began. He didn't even turn 50 until the 3rd season.

[@charlesajones77]

"Majel Barrett didn't have the acting chops..." Hilarious considering she's the single most prolific actor in Star Trek history, by far. Just under 300 episodes and movies, in about 20 different roles if you include the animated series.

[@RickSFfan]

Nope. The show's producers (Bob Justman and Herb Solow) said in the book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story that the issue was they knew this was Roddenberry's girlfriend, despite the fact Roddenberry was married at the time to someone else. They thought that was unethical, so they said she could not be on it. Period. So Roddenberry put her in a blonde wig. They knew he did it, but just shrugged because she was wasn't the lead any more, just a recurring performer not in every episode.

[@sarahscott5305]

I thought Worf was in more episodes? Oh, she voiced the computer, too.

[@DMSProduktions]

@@sarahscott5305 NEPOTISM pure & simple Sez!

[@CaptainPikeachu]

@@RickSFfan Basically just sexism in a different way :)

[@HAL_NINER_TRIPLE_ZERO]

It helps when you are sleeping with the boss. Majel was a competent actress. The problem with the Number One role in The Cage is that the character was a crashing bore.

[@parkay3560]

Fred Freiburger is universally known as the kiss of death on every single series he ever got involved with.his thirst for over the top,alien of the week shyte killed lost in space,voyage to the bottom of the sea and infamously Space 1999.he single handedly made sure 1999 never got a third season. and absolutely killed startrek dead.its a miracle that that corpse got resurrected. You ask any sci-fi fan what they think of Freddie Freiburger and they will all say what they think of him and how he ruined everything he touched....

[@NotWorthIt9]

I don't think he worked on any Irwin Allen productions.

[@dw7704]

He was involved in the final season of The Six Million Dollar Man

[@parkay3560]

@@dw7704 that explains the aliens and sasquatch storylines then🤣

[@koalaeinstein-y7r]

None of Irwin Allen's stranded space or time explorers ..ever made it back to earth . Bit shoddy that ....doesn't take much effort to conclude a series

[@patrickmusson4571]

Judging by the way Lwaxana Troi turned out in TNG, I'd say that Majel Barret did have the acting chops. She was also the best computer voice I've heard in SciFi.

[@gohawks3571]

It was this year that I learned she was Lwaxana Troy! I knew she was the computer voice, but I didn't know she was Lwaxana😲

[@patrickmusson4571]

@@gohawks3571 She was the only character that seemed to make the stoic Captain Jean Luc Picard 'uncomfortable'.

[@gohawks3571]

@@patrickmusson4571 Don't blame him; she makes me uncomfortable too😂 But, love her performances👍

[@patrickmusson4571]

@@gohawks3571 Yeah, I know what you mean, the way she was constantly 'coming onto Jean Luc. It looked like he was constantly trying to be 'diplomatic'. Majel is wonderful.

[@OldUKAds]

They probably felt that is you were a woman and in command you had to be manly and aggressive. Good job we're over those stereotypes eh readers?

[@VergilArcanis]

I like Star trek Generations a lot. Malcolm McDowell did a fantastic job portraying a crazed villain. not to mention the one lesson takeaway: there's no fun if the danger isn't present.

[@scribewell]

Ricardo Montalban was buff. Just check him out in “Return to Fantasy Island.”

[@bryanabbott6169]

Notorious TrekCulture Urban Legend: Prime Universe Sean Ferrick was replaced by Mirror Universe Sean Ferrick! 😉

[@transcendentalidiot3321]

You can tell them apart because "Evil Sean" has facial hair...oh wait.

[@AraceaeFanatics]

Haha

[@DMSProduktions]

@@transcendentalidiot3321 And 'our' Sean, is actually straight...

[@robslife27]

🤣🤣🤣

[@keepinmeuppodcast76]

Mirror Ferrick speaks at a normal pace. Thus his video would be over in 5 mins. lol

[@Bakamoichigei]

The Khan thing is so pervasive that it was even in the original Animaniacs cartoon in the 1990s, I still remember it! They were doing some kind of Star Trek spoof, and when Khan appears on the viewscreen, Dot goes "It's Ricardo Montalban and his big plastic chest!" or something to that effect. 😂

[@Olkv3D]

I greatly appreciate how this presenter takes their time while speaking.

[@bigthoruk]

How was Roddenberry Lawyer given so much power to block scripts ?

[@forcewielder2000]

Even Nicholas Meyers (in his book, "A View From The Bridge") declared (in regards to Ricardo Montalbán) that "the pecs are real!"

[@martykarr7058]

On Ricardo Montalban: I found out those pecs were real when I saw this one old rom-com where he played a wealthy land owner in South America and was building a bridge, shirtless. Same pecs.

[@MattFergusonmwfergo]

100% pure Montalban

[@Nobodyreallyatall]

The odd wardrobe and waxed smooth tan chest did make Ricardo's chest seem fake. I remember some people did think his chest was fake at the time. They could have done it better.

[@merri-toddwebster2473]

George Takei testified in the memoir he wrote in the '90s that Ricardo's chest was 100% real. He and Montalban conversed in Spanish on the set during WoK, which Takei picked up living in the SF barrio as a teenager.

[@captainarcher5205]

FACT: The Duras sisters didn’t use fake chests either.

[@cliffdixon6422]

Fred Freiburger has a lot to answer for. He was also responsible for Season 2 of Space 1999 and ruined the show

[@mr51406]

Indeed! Gerry Anderson and Martin Landau totally said the same thing. Landau was especially vitriolic. It was ITV’s Lew Grade who imposed Freiburger to elusively capture the American market. Grade was a total tw*t.

[@clevestercrittenden2089]

Roddenberry himself said he had a decision to make. Barrett was his mistress and he didn't want on Star trek full time. He said so I decided to marry one and make the other one first officer. Since Leonard wouldn't go along with it, he married Majel.

[@howardgilman5698]

😆

[@chriswilder9719]

"Didn't have the acting chops to play a character in a command position" is 60's CBS slang for "no women on the bridge"

[@PaulMcElligott]

TOS was on NBC.

[@brucepulver8358]

Top 3 chest break out roles in science fiction. Sigourney Weaver, Ricardo Montalbán and John Hurt! ❤🤣🤣

[@katmatally]

haha

[@jamessullivan4391]

Funnier if you don't laugh at your own joke.

[@brucepulver8358]

@@jamessullivan4391 ❤️🤣🤣 love and laughter, laughter is for the people that can't/ don't get that it's humour ❤️🤣🤣

[@pakese30]

I think the whole kiss thing is more focused on the white man kissing a black woman, though the others would actually take it as being interracial I think it’s because of the whole race problem in America being predominantly based on African Americans and because of that the kiss is more impactful between Kirk and Uhura. Hadn’t heard the Geordi’s family thing.

[@gsmontag]

Yeah, the racial politics at the time were extremely tense regarding Black-white relations, and when it came to Asian and Hispanic people there was much less animus.

[@ronvance]

I remember Ricardo Montalban being interviewed on Carson and when Johnny Carson asked him about the way he looked, Montalban joked about it being just make-up. He was probably just being modest, but that could be where that rumor got started.

[@majuuorthrus3340]

It is possible to enhance clevage with makeup - apply darker toned makeup to make the shadows seem darker and thus the chest bigger/more defined. You do need something there to start with though.

[@DoctorX17]

I'd love if every actor loved every thing they were in that I loved... But yeah, sometimes it's just a paycheck. But the most important thing for me, the fan, is that even if they're just there for a paycheck, that they deliver a performance that _feels_ like they love it and are a part of it.

[@Z.A.M.1359]

Agreed. As long as not loving it doesn't stop them from giving a decent performance we can live and let live. Not every story or style is for every person.

[@DoctorX17]

@@Z.A.M.1359 exactly!

[@willmfrank]

Christopher Lee once said, "Every actor has to make terrible movies; the trick is not to be terrible in them."

[@billkeithchannel]

Nicholas Cage's performance in Left Behind was as bland as wallpaper paste.

[@JasonBoyce]

alec guinness HATED star wars but still played an amazing obi wan kenobi

[@aliensoup2420]

If Montalban's chest was a prosthetic, it most certainly would have been crafted from fine Corinthian leather.

[@jumpschiff]

"Geordi's reveal would've been too late in the game" Bashir's augment reveal in season five and Siddig's absolute hatred for it are laughing in the distance rn.

[@lindajokensinger8690]

Make Barrett cleared showed her acting chops when she played Lwaxana. Imho her other roles wete 2 dimensional characters giving any actor little to work with. As for 'the kiss' between Kirk and Uhura, I've always had a problem with it since it seems the only way it could occur at that time was to make it non-consensual. Love ya Sean! ❤🖖

[@Johnny_Nitro]

Lwaxana was insufferable.

[@GabePuratekuta]

I thought Lwazana was played by Majel Barrett?

[@demonicusa.k.a.theblindguy3929]

The kiss in that episode being forced has been uncomfortable for me as well for the last couple of decades although I never thought about it that way when I was younger. That being said it's not even the 1st interracial kiss for star trek. Barbara Luna and the mirror mirror episode is Filipino-american and that kiss was consensual.

[@stevenserna910]

Ricardo Montalban had been a major Mexican, and American "Artista" (Actor) since the 1940's. He was a personal friend to William Shatner. He was always well-built due to his dramatic action/acting roles, however none had ever called for him to be bare-chested as much as his W.o.K. character, Khan Noonian Singh. He did an Entertainment Tonight interview that aired in the early 80's where he was asked "point blank" if his chest in that movie was prosthetic. He responded heartily, but humbly that he had to do "quite a lot of push-up's to get into that kind of shape". Of course he then reported back to work at "Fantasy Island" as the well mannered & fully dressed Mr. Roark, and then, on to a prime-time soap, "Falcon Crest". Hats off, and Muchos "Saludos" to Don Ricardo Montalban.

[@howardpope3932]

"Star Trek Memories" is definitely not a novel.

[@john_carter_of_earth]

Came here to mention the same thing.

[@Nobodyreallyatall]

The Uhura kiss was in living colour, as it should be.

[@drmadjdsadjadi]

William Shatner for the WIN! In 1958, William Shatner kissed French-Vietnamese actress France Nuyen on the Ed Sullivan show. That beats Sea Hunt by a year.

[@stevenslater7090]

You forgot Emergency ward 10 which had no only the second kiss on television between black and white actors in July 1964, it was a full blown romance.

[@DaveSomething]

Malcolm will always be "no time for the old in out, love... I've just come to read the meter!"😁

[@willmfrank]

As I learn more and more about Leonard Maizlish and his relationship with Gene Roddenberry, I am reminded more and more of Melakon and John Gill.

[@repomanzilla]

They and everyone means yes it was the first interracial black white kiss. I split hairs like everyone but when us Americans think first interracial kiss, we automatically assume black and white. So yes, to an entire country it was the first one....which star trek comes from america....so boom!!!!

[@melnikhoogland7545]

TrekCulture: There's this wild, *notorious* rumor running around all over the place that there was "only one Gene"!!! Me: Citation...needed?

[@peebsburns948]

I'm glad someone else has mentioned this. I believe that there was an even earlier one; again on British TV.

[@chazblank2717]

I thought the controversy with Majel Barret as Number One, was that her and Roddenberry had recently started an extra marital affair...

[@dinomonzon7493]

I much prefer Majel Barrett as Number One than either Chris Chapel or Lwaxana Troi. Maizlish kept interfering in the production of TNG to the point that Paramount execs outright banned him from even stepping onto the studio grounds. Maizlish even called David Gerrold a slew of homophobic slurs to his face. Gene should have dropped all ties with him.

[@davidtucker9498]

I like the character better, but Makes Barrett was BRILLIANT as Lwaxana...

[@heyitsmikegaming]

Based on what you said I read it as lwaxana troi was supposed to be number one which is a fan fiction I will immediately pay to have made

[@GrimmShadowsII]

I always wish they found a way to do more with atleast her race, if it's still canon that she wasn't human, I didn't even know she wasn't human until years later I heard a novel went into it atleast a little.

[@sheilarough236]

Patrick Stewart suffered from alopecia and started losing his hair in his late teens, early 20’s

[@DMSProduktions]

I just thought it was early onset male pattern baldness. I had mates @ 21 with comb overs!

[@JROfDoom]

Next video: Ten Karl Urban legends about how he was a better Bones than DeForest Kelly

[@willmfrank]

"Urban legends..." I see what you did there. ;-)

[@goodwilj]

Dammit Jim,. I"m an actor not a TV doctor.

[@paulexplainsit]

Content starts at 1:35. You’re welcome.

[@hoss3777]

Doulingo actually has Klingon as a course. Its No3 on my list

[@m_d1905]

Always knew that was always Ricardo Montoban and his chest. He was a pretty fit gentleman.

[@zacharykew-denniss5068]

Ayyyyyy you've been sponsored by a Star Trek property! NOICE

[@billdelaney2817]

Thank you Sean. Loved this episode

[@sarahscott5305]

Damar was the best darn Cardassian ever. Garak? Dukat? Pfft.

[@Terri_MacKay]

Garak is my all time favourite TV character...I think Andrew Robinson was brilliant. Casey Biggs' Damar may be the most underrated and underappreciated character on the show. Damar had a great redemption story arc, and died a hero, and yet he's never mentioned when people talk about the show. Dukat started out as a great villain, but that whole storyline with Kai Wynn, when he was pretending to be a Bajoran, was just stupid.

[@sarahscott5305]

@@Terri_MacKay Garak and Dukat were both endlessly fascinating characters to me and they were brought to life INCREDIBLY well by two very talented people. I could talk about them all dang day, really. I just personally preferred Damar's arc. Garak got so much depth, but was still basically Garak, his personality didn't change. Dukat developed and changed, ultimately, into a worse person. (Waltz should have been his last appearance really.) But Damar came *so close* to redemption for himself and his people.

[@thomasnieswandt8805]

No gays under Gene is only partl true... (fun) fact. Geordi was written to be gay. It was agreed on, to handle it "normal" (at least normal for 1987), but LeVar Burton once said in an interview , "Geordi was a gay man. When the show was in production, the producers were like Uhm.... Geordi is black, gay and disabled....that to much. Obviously we cant change black or blind anymore, so lets drop gay" and it was never mentioned on screen

[@davidjones3165]

He loved women

[@thomasnieswandt8805]

@@davidjones3165 Well yes.... because they dropped the gay part ....

[@vsm6847]

There was only one Gene? Seriously? That’s the number one item?

[@gestaltdude]

All of a sudden I want nothing more in my life than to see some version of Star Trek with Lloyd Bridges as Kirk. Impossible now, I know, but what right thinking entity in the quadrant wouldn't want to see this? Also, the emotional Spock we're currently seeing in SNW makes perfect sense. We know what happened to him to trigger this state, but can only guess what happens between where we are now to Spock being with Kirk to make his Vulcan side take over. The whole time I;ve been wondering why they've made this change, when it was actually written into cannon the whole time.

[@Z.A.M.1359]

Piccard ended up bald so they gave the first officer extra hair, aka the beard.

[@Henpitts]

The beard came in later seasons.

[@gojewla]

RICCARDO MONTALBLON??? I always thought he was played by Rod Steward!

[@willmfrank]

If Star Trek Fleet Command was any good, they'd have given Sean a Star Trek Fleet Command T-shirt to wear in the sponsor spot.

[@SteveWalden73]

13:00 Count me among those not on board with the Kurtzman era. Just not. I appreciate being accommodated, Sean. Thank you.

[@quinndrakon9468]

I specifically remember a scene in "The Animaniacs: TOS" where Dot was like, "Oooh! It's Ricardo Montalbon and his big plastic chest!" Haha.

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

Umm your misquoting what NBC said about Number one. They did not want a woman in strong leadership position such as second in command. There were MANY women that worked on the bridge during TOS series.

[@mikedoucette8581]

My favourite Fleet Command commercial. Well done! You made my day. Lol

[@grahamturner1290]

Yet another edifying video... 🖖

[@MikeLawlorBarefoot]

I had that poster of Christine Chapel! It was from Star Trek magazine. I think I was 10 or 11 at the time. Im 55 now

[@johngervais230]

Lucy and Desi absolutely count tho But dang, didnt know about the 1959 scene!

[@lyledal]

Bridges would have been a heck of an interesting Kirk!

[@johnbockelie3899]

Ahhhh!!!!!, a balding Enterprise Captain. The way Picard looked was legend.

[@rockdirty2228]

I picked a fine time to quit snorting dilithium...

[@goodwilj]

I can see it now...."Captain's log stardate 26.22.11, I picked a bad week to give up smoking..." haha

[@eddiedaves9457]

Question in Star Trek 4 voyage home .has any one said or answer me why the Klingon Bridge look so different from part 3 to part 4?

[@nightwingnum1226]

In where no man has go before Spock was 2nd office Gary was the 1st officer till Kirk put him in Kirk's grave THEN Spock became the 1st officer.

[@hypered0100]

I have no idea where you've gotten that from but Mitchell was never the first officer, he was just a helmsman.

[@gobbletegook]

Yes the JAMES "R" KIRK tombstone!

[@kennethhall289]

@@gobbletegook officially it was explained that Lt Cmdr Mitchell thought that Kirk’s Middle name was “Robert” and never knew that it was Tiberius, since Kirk hated his middle name and never corrected anyone that thought it was something else.

[@RD9_Designs]

I have no idea what you mean about Kirk putting Gary into Kirk's own grave... am I forgetting my TOS?

[@hypered0100]

@@RD9_Designs In 'Where No Man Has Gone Before' during the climactic fight between Mitchell and Kirk, Mitchell creates an open grave with a headstone that reads 'James R. Kirk'. Kirk knocks Mitchell into it and then causes a boulder to fall into the grave crushing Mitchell.

[@TheCerealHobbyist]

Yay, Trek related endorsements/sponsors! Hadn't noticed if they have had them before, but congrats!!

[@lescobrandon8443]

"Don't ever question me?" I don't think you are "Shaun". I'm questioning you. Lol.

[@TheCheesus1]

Kurtzman is the worst thing happening to the franchise

[@johnrobinson4445]

Well, Gene Roddenberry was an incredibly prolific philanderer and "man's man", very macho, a cop, pilot, etc. He was probably partly compensating for his strong artistic impulses which, in American culture, have often been associated with homosexuality. Sad for him, but that's the way it was.

[@gobbletegook]

And he did like to play pokey pokey with lot'z o' women too. In today's world, they would have all filed sexual discrimination suits against him, starting with Nichelle!

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

Montalbán was a jacked dude he just had to tune it up a bit for a the movie. I felt bad for McDowell that some fanatics blamed the actor for what the character did.

[@OldUKAds]

Another solid video but then I get to there's an urban legend that there's only one person called Gene who's worked on the show. Say what now? Who and where and why? Why would this when be said?

[@gerrydax]

I'm sure I read somewhere that Malcolm McDowall got death threats for killing Kirk on screen

[@kennashey]

I had heard that too...I was like, "Huh, guys....it's just a movie...take it easy, okay?"

[@DarkLordPrime]

Some people actually cannot separate actors from their characters (i.e. real vs. fiction). Many actors have gotten hate dumped on them as well as death threats for something their fictional character did in a production.

[@jasonbodine6033]

Thank you, M.

[@g.dalfleblanc63]

Patrick Stewart, Jason Statham, The Rock, Vin diesel, Bruce Willis; people don't find baldness sexy at all lol.

[@MrShaunhunter]

I love this channel. Keep up the great videos

[@GabePuratekuta]

That hoodie does not look regulation Starfleet Academy attire, Sean!

[@TheKoss11]

Love that hoodie

[@shibolinemress8913]

Perhaps they should have rephrased the kiss legend. Maybe it was the first Black/white interracial kiss on American primetime TV. No way was it the first broadcast interracial kiss period. Besides the examples you mentioned, I have a very strong suspicion 😉 that James Bond also beat Captain Kirk to the punch.

[@xenoaxis6910]

Next list, top 10 plot armor moments.

[@NeuroD369]

A fake chest? No. Absolutely not. I was there when Ricardo Montalban said on live late night TV that it was, in fact, his own chest. Ricardo Montalban was a man’s man and certainly would not have lied about that. ☝️🤨

[@Rocketsong]

The problem with Number One is that the studio knew that Majel was Gene's mistress.

[@OldUKAds]

You honestly think that would have concerned them? Given the era it'd be almost applauded.

[@MacTX]

2:45 People who are debating that probably are confusing race with ethnicity. Hispanic isn't a race it's an ethnicity.

[@benn454]

Yep. You can be white and Hispanic at the same time. Ask the Spanish.

[@loulfw2513]

@@benn454 ask them what?

[@michaelplunkett8059]

@@loulfw2513 what race they are?

[@loulfw2513]

@@michaelplunkett8059 ah I see. That's fair I guess but I don't know how that question would come up

[@Geezer-yf8hv]

@@loulfw2513 Only in America, where everyone is currently obsessed with racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender labels

[@BrennaUrbangirl]

About the ad for Fleet Command at the beginning of the video. It was reported today that Fleet Command is now available on PC.

[@selvahechicera4292]

Both Mr. Roarks have been in Star Trek.

[@brnloveless]

I say good that’s why the old Star Trek is better

[@lapiswake6583]

Why does the shot of Gene Roddenberry at 7:41 look like Captain Hollister from Red Dwarf?

[@ahcokris]

Soran was amazingg.

[@majuuorthrus3340]

I did read an apocryphal story that, way back when, Gene Roddenberry was at a convention and read a fan's Spock/Kirk smutfic (back in the days before they realised what a legal mess that could be). It enraged him, not because of the gay, but because it mentioned Spock undoing Kirk's fly. You could be gay in the utopian future of Star Trek just fine, but clothing fastenings were not welcome.

[@markziff7234]

Nevermind British actor, he's a Yorkshire man!

[@6xCamox9]

Brent Spiner hated cats

[@toddnolastname4485]

Um, when they talk about "interracial kiss", pretty much they literally mean white person and black person kissing. Pretty sure no one cared if white and Asians kissed by the time of Star Trek. And Desi Arnaz is a white man, a descendant of Europe. If Majel was the problem, and not having a woman in a position of authority, why didn't they find another woman to be Kirk's first officer. After all, it really is dumb that the captain and first officer were always leaving on the away team. Sure Kirk wants his science officer there, and that's Spock.

[@bikerbernie821]

You've got to be young, and have been confused by this 1984 nonsense going on... Just because you're from Europe did not mean you're white... Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Greek, were not and in my book still are not white... and before you try to tear me apart for that statement it is what it is and I really don't care that they're not white but people keep redefining things until they no longer have meaning... by the way interracial means interracial... Not sure how else to say that

[@Seal0626]

And how would Gene explain to Majel that she'd been recast?

[@OldUKAds]

Um

[@dompuma9620]

Imagine Picard wearing that awful wig and having that terrible French accent for seven seasons.

[@Isador]

encredible

[@benn454]

@@Isador HON HON HON

[@Joepacker]

I don't have to imagine just watch the awful STP

[@DarkLordPrime]

Picard has never had a "French accent," except when he specifically spoke French words. His accent has always been Stewart's own British accent.

[@rojoeditor]

Star Trek Memories isn't a novel.

[@ireneparkin3360]

Related (not sure if true) fact about Majell Barrett:- she was actually Gene Roddenberry's mistress, hence why she was given the Number one role.

[@CaptainPikeachu]

I really don't think we can talk about Maizlish messing about with Star Trek and having responsibility for Star Trek's failure for gay representation without talking about Rick Berman's homophobia and his huge blame for that as well. After all, Maizlish did die in 1994 and Star Trek and Rick Berman could have easily done more gay representation, especially with ENT.

[@MattFergusonmwfergo]

Here's a challenge for @TrekCulture, can you find out why the new Star Trek Delta has that vertical line in it?

[@Riveloperinc]

If Picard wasn’t bald I can’t imagine it being as good

[@ewarrior9776]

Whites could marry Asians legally in America, Black people couldn't until 1967 during the run of the original show. That kiss deserves its place in history

[@Snowowl64]

My X Brother In Law Always Claimed He Knew How To Speak Klingon!!! I Always Laughed In His Face And Said "Yeah RIGHT, Because THATS A REAL Language!!! SHUT THE £*%# UP!!!"

[@trevorwhite915]

Actually the game You advertised is so so but the ads are great!

[@shawncurtis3686]

If there is any doubt about how ripped Montalban was in his day check out " Across the Wide Missouri".

[@oheidi5956]

OMG I just thought of this: Every Risa episode ranked!

[@OldUKAds]

Captain's Holiday. The rest. There done it for you.