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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Reset-Trek's Hot Spock Has More Than Uhura On His Mind


As Spock would say, once you out the impossible whoever remains in the closet, however obvious, must come out... or something like that.

Yes, Reset-Trek's Spock, Zachary Quinto, has come out, and at the height of his career, too -- talk about strange new worlds!

As for my well-known Vulcan Queergeek fetish and wannabe issues -- not helping, Quinto! not helping!

3 comments:

Dale Carrico said...

I've been chided in e-mail that this news is two months old... Hey, I teach philosophy, where timely response times are measured in centuries...

Chad Lott said...

Screw timeliness.

I just listened to an old episode of the Smiley and West Podcast with guest Neil De Grasse Tyson.

Tyson told a story about Nichelle Nichols (the OG Uhura)that's decades old an still inspiring.

She was going to quit the show until she ran into Martin Luther King Jr. in an airport. He told her how much of a fan he was of the show and asked her to stay on in order for their people to have a visible hero on TV.

Totally awesome.

jimf said...

> She was going to quit the show until she ran into
> Martin Luther King Jr. in an airport. He told her
> how much of a fan he was of the show. . .

A heartwarming story, no doubt, and Dr. King may possibly
have known that _Star Trek_ had a black woman on the bridge
(Nichols as Uhura was on the cover of a '67 issue of _Ebony_
magazine -- which I bought at the time ;-> )
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l58oy1MBM41qzb91ho1_500.png
but I find it difficult to believe that King was
actually **a fan of the show**!

I seem to recall Whoopi Goldberg telling a similar story
about Nichols as a role model in which,
as a child, she saw Uhura on Star Trek and remarked
"She ain't no maid!".
http://www.startrek.com/database_article/goldberg-whoopi

But as for being an actual fan. . . Despite Roddenberry's efforts
to make the show "basically _Wagon Train_ to the stars"
(as he told the writers), the appeal was mostly limited to
folks who were already pretty hard-core SF geeks.
My parents certainly scorned it -- they let me watch it,
but retired to the kitchen when it came on. Though they --
or at least my mother -- were big-time fans of TV westerns,
they didn't make the connection with _Wagon Train_, I'm
afraid. ;->