"
Plato's Stepchildren" is the tenth episode of the
third season of the original
science fiction television series,
Star Trek, first broadcast November 22, 1968. It is episode No. 65, production No. 67, written by
Meyer Dolinsky, and directed by
David Alexander. This episode is notable for depicting an inter-racial kiss between a white man (
Kirk) and a black woman (
Uhura), which was daring for 1960s US television.
One: woa granddad your first kiss was before 1968, guess the "professional" tag refers to ww2
Two: Trek wasnt the first
The
first interracial kiss on television seems to have occurred some years earlier on British television in
You in Your Small Corner. This featured a kiss between black actor
Lloyd Reckord and white actress
Elizabeth MacLennan, and was broadcast live on the UK's
ITV channel in June 1962
Three: It is presumably of robust construction, making it able to withstand falling through time/space wormholes and being thrown into swamps, being rescued, and still operating. Arthur Dent's copy survived a spaceship crash which melted the ship into something unrecognizable yet the Guide (and on-board entertainment system) survived
Obviously no relation to an Iphone which cant even survive the short drop off the desk.