#andreea kindryd

[charliejaneanders]

Andreea Kindryd was a production assistant on the original Star Trek back in the 1960s, and was heavily involved in the civil rights movement alongside Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. She became one of the first Black women movie/TV producers, and was friends with Octavia Butler. She's written a memoir called From Slavery to the Stars that just came out, and it's well worth picking up. Please show her some love!

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[spockvarietyhour]

#Andreea Kindryd #Kindred #Octavia Butler

[tvsotherworlds]

[mitchipedia]

Gene L. Coon brought the heart and laughter to the original Star Trek

Gene Roddenberry’s vision for Star Trek was preachy and serious. Gene L. Coon injected laughter and heart. He also invented the Klingons, and the constant thread running through Trek that hostile behavior often stems from cultures misunderstanding each other.

Andreea Kindryd was an African-American civil rights activist who had worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and worked for Coon as his production secretary. She was at first “uneasy about working with an old white guy named Coon—especially after Coon told her that his father had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan—but Coon was passionate about injecting anti-racist messages into Trek.”

Charlie Jane Anders, Wired

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