A Shocking Scene For Audiences Of The ’60s
Star Trek made American television history in 1968 when it aired the first interracial kiss. In the season three episode “Plato’s Stepchildren,” aliens used psychokinetic powers to make Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura kiss against their will.
Mind you, this was the ’60s and worried about how viewers in the South would take it, producers wanted to film different versions of the scene where they don’t actually lock lips. But apparently, William Shatner kept purposely flubbing the extra scenes so much, that they were forced to use the kissing scene as written. Also, the kiss was originally supposed to be between Uhura and Spock, but Shatner insisted that he star in the historic moment.
