Topic Challenge: 50 years of Star Trek [completed]

Question

In addition to the broad release of Star Trek Beyond, the 13th installment in the official Star Trek movie series, this year also celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Star Trek franchise, one of the biggest and most famous film and TV franchises, and science-fiction universes in general, to date. So in order to celebrate the various films and TV shows this universe has generated over the years and due to popular demand we're starting a new topic challenge. From 2016-07-23 00:00 UTC to 2016-08-05 23:00 UTC we're challenging you to all your great questions about anything Star Trek (conveniently taggable with star-trek).

Once the challenge is over, we'll tally the results and winners (by question votes) here. Also don't forget to suggest and vote for new topics for our next possible challenge.

Answer 1

The challenge is over and the top-voted question (with a score of 68 and ~12489) was asked by Thunderforge, which makes him the winner of this challenge:

1. Was Kirk and Uhura's kiss in Star Trek really the first interracial kiss on TV?

The other questions asked, in order of votes are (the numbers are the votes and views):

2. What was the device named by fans of Star Trek? (8 / ~136)

3. Why didn't Krall know about the Franklin? (7 / ~304)

4. How could this jump in ranks be possible? (6 / ~100)

5. If the Star Trek TNG future has no money, were there any stakes to the poker games the officers played? (5 / ~66)

   Was the Starfleet officer connected to the later series? (5 / ~82)

   How does the USS Franklin fit in the pre-Kelvin Timeline? (5 / ~1018)

6. What was the ship under construction initially called? (3 / ~121)

7. Distance between Yorktown and the unexplored planet (2 / ~47)

   In Wrath of Khan, what is the meaning of "the word is given" in the scene where the crewman dies in sickbay? (2 / ~76)

   Who were the faceless mooks? (2 / ~127)

   What happened to the the USS Franklin crew? (2 / ~173)

8. Sulu's Daughter's Parentage? (0 / ~68)