Why does Uhura being black make her the opposite of a Vulcan? What about black Vulcans? Tuvok was full Vulcan, and black. It's faulty logic.


This was bad music, but a good way to foreshadow the rape-y Q teenager with eyes on Yeoman Janice Rand.

Spock was clearly enjoying Lieutenant Uhura's serenade. Nurse Chapel would leave snail trails whenever she was around Spock. In TOS, he was up to his ears in pussy and arguably shagged more than Kirk, who was more of a poet that the he-slut he's made out to be in the Kelvin timeline.

Everyone tore into Spock. It was an easy way of commenting on racism. Lieutenant Stiles was reprimanded by Kirk in Balance of Terror for repeatedly shitting on old devil ears. Scotty shared several barbs with him, and no-one ripped into the green blooded hobgoblin more than Dr. McCoy.


What I'm really saying, Motherfucker, is that perhaps you should look into the mirror and contemplate your racists and sexist views.

This is Season 1. Episode 2, Its 1966, which is not only 29 years before Tuvok, but also before the characters of Spock and Uhura were settled. 56 years, 2 seasons, and six movies later, it seems weird to see Uhura carry on like this, and it's weird to see Spock sort of smile like that. To their credit, the writers and show runners soon arrived at a more workable dynamic, and a much more interesting and appropriate foil for Spock in Leonard McCoy.

Readers of English will note that I said that in the very early episodes, Uhura was portrayed as hyperemotional, and therefore she was the opposite of Spock, and she was placed in opposition to Spock by the scripts. I think that her hyperemotional nature is based on a racist trope.

My ambien is kicking in, so I'm just gonna press the submit button.

Uhura was the opposite of emotionless Spock because she was a WOMAN.

That tracks.

There were times when belligerence towards Spock was a comment on racism. Playful moments like this are NOT among them. It's just that no one seemed to consider it to be racist or inappropriate to reduce an alien colleague to a physical feature they can't change. (Within a highly organized, supposedly enlightened fleet, no less)

I can forgive the original series for not seeing this, but even in the 2009 Abrams movie they have Kirk and McCoy using the slur "old pointy ears" or whatever.

Look, I'm not trying to cancel Star Trek, okay? But this was a very early moment of tone deafness. We all have them. They definitely found their groove later on.

I agree. My comment was more in response to lef. :)

Mine too, actually.

This line is still bullshit: She's black, you see, and that makes her the opposite of a Vulcan.

That was directed by Shatner, wasn't it?