Nichelle Nichols, l'actrice qui jouait Uhura dans la série Star Trek originale a révélé pourquoi elle n'a pas quitté la série après la première saison, alors que son vrai métier, c'était les shows de Broadway.

Elle avait donné sa lettre de démission, mais Roddenberry ne voulait pas qu'elle parte.
Peu de temps après, à une soirée de collecte de fond, on lui présenta un fan absolu de la série : Martin Luther King. Et quand elle lui annonça qu'elle quittait la série, il s'indigna et répondit :
"STOP! You cannot! You cannot leave this show! Do you not understand what you are doing?! You are the first non-stereotypical role in television! Of intelligence, and of a woman and a woman of color?! That you are playing a role that is not about your color! That this role could be played by anyone? This is not a black role. This is not a female role! A blue eyed blond or a pointed ear green person could take this role!" And I am looking at him and looking at him and buzzing, and he said, "Nichelle, for the first time, not only our little children and people can look on and see themselves, but people who don't look like us, people who don't look like us, from all over the world, for the first time, the first time on television, they can see us, as we should be!
As intelligent, brilliant, people! People in roles other than slick tap dancers, and maids, which are all wonderful in their own ways, but for the first time we have a woman, a WOMAN, who represents us and not in menial jobs, and you PROVE it, this man [Gene Rodenberry] proves and establishes a precedent that validates what we are marching for because three hundred years from today there we are, and there you are, in all our glory and all your glory! And you CANNOT leave!"

http://scifiwire.com/2010/01/the-true-story-of-how-dr.php#more


Beau comme un épisode de la série. Ce qui était important, c'est pas la métaphore, mais bien le sens.

Erion