WI later Star Trek, with Admiral Kirk and Captain Uhura?

Ryan

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I doubt it. Even if you ignore the cultural issues of her being a black woman, it would be seen as one of the most forced things possible, given that Uhura was a communications officer with next to no experience in a command role.
 
Don't see why Uhura couldn't make the move, but she'd probably have to leave Enterprise to XO a smaller class of vessel, first.
 
. . . it would be seen as one of the most forced things possible, given that Uhura was a communications officer with next to no experience in a command role.
They'd just have to have a movie where they show her as a competent first officer.

And the next movie, she's captain, no problem.

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PS Here's hoping for a Star Trek movie in 1973, a full three years before Logan's Run! And in which they try to make a full, rich, meaty movie where they basically try to pack two and a half episodes into an hour and forty-five minutes.
 
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OTL it took until last year to have a black female captain in a Star Trek franchise (Burnham in Discovery.) The question is, between 1969 and 1987, would there be enough demand for another Star Trek series? It wasn’t a hit until syndication, so in the late 1970s, could people bring it back the way shows like Family Guy were brought back in the 2000s?

Bear in mind that, in 1968, Kirk and Uhura kissed on screen, one of the first instances of an interracial kiss. It didn’t destroy the show (shitty ratings did.) And I know that, in the 1970s, TV was starting to cater to the black community. So it’s possible it could work, but you may be averting a few things here - Nichelle Nichols was very influential in getting Sally Ride into space, so that may be lost.

On the other hand, Barack Obama’s is a Trekkie, so a show like this would make him an even bigger nerd.
 
OTL it took until last year to have a black female captain in a Star Trek franchise (Burnham in Discovery.) The question is, between 1969 and 1987, would there be enough demand for another Star Trek series? It wasn’t a hit until syndication, so in the late 1970s, could people bring it back the way shows like Family Guy were brought back in the 2000s?

Bear in mind that, in 1968, Kirk and Uhura kissed on screen, one of the first instances of an interracial kiss. It didn’t destroy the show (shitty ratings did.) And I know that, in the 1970s, TV was starting to cater to the black community. So it’s possible it could work, but you may be averting a few things here - Nichelle Nichols was very influential in getting Sally Ride into space, so that may be lost.

On the other hand, Barack Obama’s is a Trekkie, so a show like this would make him an even bigger nerd.

Uhura is underrated in terms of historical impact. I've heard a decent number of white guys who were old enough to remember the TV series say she was hot. That had to put a few cracks into racism.
 
Uhura is underrated in terms of historical impact. I've heard a decent number of white guys who were old enough to remember the TV series say she was hot. That had to put a few cracks into racism.

I suppose having a black woman as a standard of beauty (not as someone white men fuck on the side; shit, Thomas Jefferson fucked his slaves and it didn’t do jack for black folks’ social standing) helps social standing, but it’s a small gain, somewhere between “white people laugh at black comedians” and “whites people vote for a black man for Congress.” Nowadays we have several black women who are universally regarded as beautiful, and Beyoncé is pretty much the queen of them.

For me, Nichelle Nichols is before my time. The first celebrity I remember lusting after was Tyra Banks (no small coincidence she’s black as well - her SI cover shoot was a ten out of ten on the “damn!” scale.) I’m also not a Trekkie and I doubt that Nichelle Nichols would have been enough to make me one since I’m just not into the show (but then again, I’m not into tennis but I could watch Serena Williams all afternoon, so maybe not.)

I could see Uhura as a possible leader since she seemed the most human out of all the non-Shatner characters; the biggest obstacles would be whether America is ready for more Star Trek in the late 70s and getting past “Uhura” sounding like an old man coughing up a golf ball-sized wad of phlegm.
 
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