Isn't that first interracial kiss? :-D

hehe now I wonder what you wrote before "interracial"

i think you mean first inter-racial kiss.

Yup. In it's way, the Original series was much more progressive that the ones that followed, many more women in positions of authority, etc.
It pushed the envelope of the time considerably.

I once read the autobiography of Sulu (can't remember the actor's name, sorry). He relates that the whole original crew was quite concerned that the next generation would screw up the frachise because they weren't nearly as good. This upon seeing the first new episodes. Of course, most people think that the general level of acting in next generation far exceeds anything Shatner or really any of them have ever done. But is is true what someone said above that the writing of the old ones was often more progressive. There was even an episode written by Harlan Ellison, one of my favorite SciFi authors.

Oh! Oh! That makes me sooooo happy!!!