Women and Blacks

I remember Nicelle Nichols saying years ago that she as very proud of being on Star Trek because it portrayed her as a powerful black woman who was an officer on a space ship; this was true. As I mentioned before, Gravity and I are watching old Mission Impossible TV shows; we are on season two. Towards the end of season one I began to realize that these old shows (1966 to 1973) do an even better portrayal of blacks, and additionally, women. The members of the MI team are all totally professional -- no even hints of romance. Greg Morris, the shows' black team member, is the master engineer and gadgets whiz -- an absolute genius who can make and create anything based on principals of physics and chemistry. The teams' woman (played by Barbara Bain) portrays a former model with an eidetic memory and who never needs to be rescued by the men. She thinks fast and quickly with brilliance. Both women and blacks are portrayed in a more flattering light than often done today when few shows don't eventually run amok with romance. The new MI movies pale in many ways to the old shows with the shows' plot lines being based on valor, honesty and love of country; and the focus on a team instead of one man (yuk - Tom Cruise). Please someone, turn the old shows into current MI movies!