Re: CHAT: Star Wars and its conlangs

At 11:52 -0400 24.5.1999, Brian Betty wrote:

>I mean, when was the last time you saw black people and white people as
>main characters on the same show when that show wasn't Star Trek, Sliders,
>or some other scifi set in the future? All sitcoms are racially segregated,
>and it makes me sick. There is more racial diversity in the original Star
>Trek crew than there is on all of non-scifi television today all added up.
>And that is *sad.*
The exceptionality of Star Trek in this respect was a conscious decision of
Gene Roddenberry [sp?], or so I read in a news magazine.  It also said that
television's first "interracial kiss" -- to me this expression does suggest
a sense of "perversion" that "kiss between people of different races" does
not, BTW -- happened on Star Trek.

What's a "Joe Schlepp character", BTW?

And when did you last see a person with a handicap in a TV show or movie,
without the handicap being marked in the plot?

/BP

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