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15 Things You Didn't Know About Star Trek

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Peregrin
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Not seeing anything.

I guess I still don't know those things....

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Ok.. I see it now.
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I can see it...
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Um.... I knew all of those except

Quinto and glue
Lake Tahoe College linguistics
Billy S.'s stone
1957 Space booklet
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Yeah, I knew most of them too, but I thought is was a good little poster.
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They forgot that Chechov was added because the Russian ambassador mentioned that the "supposed" utopian society of Star Trek didn't include any Russians.
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My favorite part of this is the mention that "to boldly go where no man has gone before" is grammatically incorrect. =D

To be fair though, "To go boldly where no man has gone before" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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Yeah... kind of an artistic liscence thing.
Now it's just plain iconic.
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Is it common knowledge that Nichelle Nichols wanted to quit the show, but Dr. King talked her into staying?
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Her job on the ship may not seem that 'liberated' from our perspective, but she was definitely a first non-caucasian woman in a lot of roles because of that show.
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Nobodies mentioning her affair with Roddenberry, who was apparently the real life Captain Kirk, bedding many of the women who passed through. Majel actually caught her nekkid on Roddenberry's couch as a 'birthday present'.