Based Lucille Ball

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• charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For the unfamiliar: As the head of Desilu Productions, she was the one responsible for giving TOS a second pilot.

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  • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Vigorously defended by Solow, and despite the fact that Star Trek series was already ordered by NBC, after the second pilot episode, “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, had been produced, virtually the entire Desilu Board of Directors voted to cancel Star Trek in February 1966 nevertheless, board member Bernard Weitzman being the sole exception. Yet, as Chairwoman of the Board, Lucille Ball had the power to override her board, and this she did with a mere nod of her head towards Solow. “That was all Star Trek needed,” as author Marc Cushman had succinctly put it, “A nod of Lucille Ball.” (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, 1st ed, pp. 32, 94) One of the nay-sayers on the board, studio accountant Edwin “Ed” Holly, later conceded, “If it were not for Lucy, there would be no ‘Star Trek’ today.”

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They should name entire systems and fleets of ships to her name in the Trek universe

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• Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Such a legend. During covid lockdown I dove into “I Love Lucy” (streaming on Paramount+™) and was surprised by the quality. When we think of old sitcoms there are a lot of cheesy tropes that come to mind, like “Leave it to Beaver” and “The Brady Bunch” but Lucy had hardly any of them. It was very original and funny, you can tell a lot of thought and heart was put into it. I’d recommend it to anyone!

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  • ursakhiin@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lucille Ball was a comedian first and an actor second. That’s why.

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• ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  Lucy was a baller, having saved Trek from cancelation and forming her own studio.

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I always loved reading her story … everyone who saw her on TV just passed her off as a dunce, a silly woman or a goofball … when in reality she was a powerhouse.

    It’s the same with Marilyn Monroe, everyone just sees her as a dumb sex bomb … when in reality she was a smart, shrewd and intelligent, everything you need to navigate your way into that world and survive long enough for everyone to remember you.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Risa Remembers Lucille Ball

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• The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lucille Ball is a hero: Star Trek, scifi, and I’d even argue the civil rights movement all owe her a debt of gratitude.

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  • David_Eight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    These random audience members also owe her a debt off gratitude lol

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• zepheriths@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also, Martin Luther King Jr was a fan of the show, saying it was the only show his kids would be allowed to watch.

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wasn’t that the famous story with Nichelle Nichols … she had wanted to leave the show at some point but Dr King persuaded her to stay as just her mere presence on the show was far more an important statement.

    In her autobiography, she writes that he told her she couldn’t leave because she was a role model for millions of young girls and women – the only African-American on TV in a role worth having.

    theguardian.com/…/star-trek-nichelle-nichols-mart…

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    • zepheriths@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I believe so. I am not certain, but I do think that is how that came out

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    • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      From the source herself: youtu.be/u0nUOPq31Ug?&t=1595

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• FrickAndMortar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s so true… that lady was such a boss.

  Theodore Sturgeon, Harlan Ellison, Jerome Bixby, and some other sci-fi authors all contributed to the first couple of seasons… TV’s first interracial kiss between Kirk and Urura… a third thing… We’d have missed out on a lot of good stuff if “Lucy” hadn’t insisted on producing the show!

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  • David_Eight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People also forget that a white woman kissing a Cuban man on TV also wasn’t exactly cool with alot of people in the 50s. Could technically be considered the first interracial kill 🤷🏻

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    • FrickAndMortar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh fair, I didn’t think about that… I’d just always heard that the first was Shatner and Nichols, but you could be right

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• mercano@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lucy’s name appears on Enterprise’s hull in the SNW episode “Spock Amok,” when Una and La’an go on an EVA to “sign the scorch.”

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  • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can anyone spot it?

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