Top 10 Intriguing Facts About Original 'Star Trek' Characters

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Captain James T. Kirk

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For many years, the kiss between Captain James Tiberius Kirk, of Iowa, and Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, of African descent, was thought to have been the first televised interracial kiss, but research has shown it is, in fact, the third.

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Top 10 Intriguing Facts About Original 'Star Trek' Characters

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Commander Spock

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Leonard Nimoy, who portrayed Commander Spock, Kirk's executive officer and the Enterprise's science officer, created Spock's Vulcan salute, the greeting that accompanies it, and Spock's Vulcan "nerve pinch."

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Lieutenant Commander Leonard 'Bones' McCoy

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DeForest Kelley, who portrays Lieutenant Commander Leonard "Bones" McCoy, the Enterprise's chief medical officer and one of Kirk's confidants, almost didn't appear in the original Star Trek series. When producer Gene Roddenberry offered him the part of Mr. Spock, Kelley declined.

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Lieutenant Commander Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott

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Lieutenant Nyota Uhura

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Ensign Hikaru Sulu

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Strider Xanthos 8 years ago

The surname originally intended for Lieutenant Uhura became that of Ensign Hikaru Sulu, instead. The Enterprise's Asian helmsman was played by George Takei. Roddenberry planned to expand and develop the character during the series's second season, but Takei had agreed to appear in The Green Berets, alongside John Wayne.

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Ensign Pavel Chekov

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Walter Koenig was hired as a recurring cast member because Roddenberry wanted to add a younger character to the Enterprise's crew, someone who could attract teen viewers. Roddenberry saw the young actor's character, Ensign Pavel Chekov, as a budding genius, albeit one hampered by his youthful exuberance, inexperience, tactlessness, his ne

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Nurse Christine Chapel

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In the pilot episode of the original Star Trek, there was no Nurse Christine Chapel. Instead, Majel Barrett, the actress who would play Chapel, portrayed a different character. She was the unnamed first officer, known only by her position. NBC executives objected to a woman playing such a part and demanded that Roddenberry replace her with a man, w

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