comtessedebussy:

queertilly:

nerdyfacts:

Nerdy Fact #1501: The producers of Star Trek included scenes of overt sexuality to deflect the focus of NBC’s Broadcast Standards Office censors from other controversial aspects in certain episodes, like blatant allegories of the Vietnam war and racism.

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a little tasteful sideboob and no one will notice we’re telling the government to go fuck itself

And it WORKED. They had an episode about birth control. They had an episode about racism. They had an episode about the meaninglessness of war. In the 1960s. Right under the eyes of the censors. Because boobs.