woman that is fighting batman. wait a minute. >> with the appearance on "batman," television executives began to see what blacks could bring to this world of science fiction, and we got to see more afterwards. >> space, the final frontier. >> as the '60s progressed, a new frontier was being forged. >> and one of those was "star trek," developed and created by gene roddenburg. >> it's very serious. >> engage. >> "star trek" was a landmark moment, where we lived in this new egalitarian society, and jean talked about the idea of having a flight crew of different races. >> when i brought in crew, both the network and desilu studios came in saying, what are you doing? you're going to ruin us.