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Originally Posted by Vulcan
Probably the only way it could get past the studio's censors.
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True.
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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I'm pretty sure the story line mattered none too much to the racists.
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The context was that a white man was forced into kissing a black woman to humiliate him. I'm sure the racists could get into that reasoning.
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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
The NBC executives wanted them to reshoot the scene without the kiss. Roddenberry was upset with the suits, but agreed to shoot the scene with and without the kiss. But the crew were well into overtime and due to some rules, they only had two hours to get both scenes done. Shatner would do the kiss scene and then say he didn't like it and want to re-shoot it. So they did kiss scene over and over and over - for two hours. At the end he had wasted so much time that they didn't have time to shoot the alternate scene. So the suits had the choice of airing the kiss or not airing the episode at all.
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That was pretty clever of Roddenberry.
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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
First gay kiss on prime time network TV was on L.A. Law in 1991. However, there was still quite a controversy when Star Trek did it in 1995 when Dax kissed a woman on DS9.
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The LA Law kiss was pretty natural because there was build up to it over several episodes. They bailed out of the storyline pretty quickly afterwards which was disappointing. The DS9 kiss was thrown in and both actresses looked like they felt awkward doing it.
