[ SECRET POST #2183 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2183 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Sorry for late, overslept.

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Comments

[sarnath]

That's not actually true. Roddenberry didn't want any romance between the crew at all, since he thought it would seem unprofessional. It's the reason why yeoman Rand (a white woman) never had a relationship with Kirk.

There was two instances of Uhura flirting whit Spock in the very earliest episodes of TOS, where they hadn't completely decided how the character arcs should develop, but even then he's completely uninterested (and oblivious), and Uhura is mostly just poking fun at him, not actually hitting on him.

One of the reasons Uhura was nearly completely unconnected with romance is that she is black, but there is an episode where she sees her "perfect man" in a vision, and they simply made him a black man. There is also her being sexy and being flirted at by Mirror!Sulu in the episode "Mirror, Mirror".

So no, TOS didn't desexualise her completely, that's a myth. As is Roddenberry intending her to have a romance with any of the crew.

The reason that they couldn't have written a romance between her and a white man at the time was racism, of course. But even if they could have, they didn't want to; the crew were only ever allowed to have romance with one-off characters.