(August 14, 2016 at 3:24 pm)abaris Wrote:(August 14, 2016 at 2:42 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Roddenberry was driven by the social issues of the '60s. He was also a bit ham-handed about addressing them.
Was he? Putting a female black communications officer on the bridge isn't ham handed. It's rather subtile.
Really? Why? I was living in a small town in Indiana at the time and the consensus among my peers was "Oh, the hot chick from Star Trek?" Not the "hot black chick". This in a town where blacks weren't welcomed and didn't stay long if they moved in.