Star Trek actor to be launched into space

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Originally Posted by mapuc

He will boldly go where none 90 years old have gone before

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Originally Posted by Vienna

...shouldn't that be "go old-ly..."...?...

Not without Viagra he won't Actually Kirk did boldly go where no man had gone before! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_and_Uhura%27s_kiss

When NBC executives learned of the kiss they became concerned it would anger TV stations in the Deep South. Earlier in 1968, NBC had expressed similar concern over a musical sequence in a Petula Clark special in which she touched Harry Belafonte's arm, a moment cited as the first occasion of direct physical contact on American television between a man and woman of different races. At one point during negotiations, the idea was brought up of having Spock kiss Uhura instead (as Spock was half Vulcan), but William Shatner insisted that they stick with the original script. NBC finally ordered that two versions of the scene be shot—one in which Kirk and Uhura kissed and one in which they did not. Having successfully recorded the former version of the scene, Shatner and Nichelle Nichols deliberately flubbed every take of the latter version, thus forcing the episode to go out with the kiss intact. However, almost no one found the kiss offensive" except from a single mildly negative letter from one white Southerner who wrote: "I am totally opposed to the mixing of the races. However, any time a red-blooded American boy like Captain Kirk gets a beautiful dame in his arms that looks like Uhura, he ain't gonna fight it." Nichols notes that "for me, the most memorable episode of our last season was 'Plato's Stepchildren.'"

GEEZE maybe when they pull down another statue of Confederate General Lee next time, they'll replace it with Captain Kirk!