>> it's hard to find someone who doesn't know what a phaser means. or a cling on. these are part of the american methology. >>reporter: it isn't just special effects that keeps it a vie acl franchise. it's an attitude. >> star track is about hope. there is a responsibility here. there is a cliche here. the fact it survived for 30 years has a great deal for it's intelligence. >> it's alum nateing about our

lives. >> this weekend anniversary celebration at the nasa facility. major was there to represent her late husband. >> these are genes own words. why are we not traveling in space. our prime obligation is to make the unknown, known. we are on a an -- an adjourn any to keep an a -- appointment. >>reporter: he went were no one had gone before. >> in 1992. the space museum represented

the yearlong exhibit for the series. this was the first time they honored an if he fictional instead of science. >>reporter: they have boldly gone were no man has gone before. they are about to do it again. >> how did you get up here so fast? >> the cast found themselves mugging for the national press. the museum is honoring the show with their own exhibited. >> this represents a worldover -- world of ideals. although it's science fiction

that some people take seriously. >>reporter: if you don't want to think about the more social immoral questions the show raises you can look at the ears mcspock wore. if you come to admire the memorabilia you may miss the point. >> it's if he thinks fiction but necessary. >>reporter: they won dihow a tv show got to museum status. >> she's asking me not to. >>reporter: the reporters who turned into to autograph hounds is proof enough is to attract more museum-goers.

>>reporter: the show rain from 1966 and ran for 6 years. the show was nearly abandon before it hit air. >> i shot a first piolet in '64. nbc turned it down. they were impressed by the fact that it seemed believable. wanner who our supporters he said that was the first time they felt like in a spaceship. the first one we don't have a color copy of it when it was turned down the studio never held onto a color print. it's an interesting thing to see it has jeffrey hunter as the man it's interesting to see what and why it was changed.

one interesting thing we had a woman second in command. this was ahead of our time. i felt and so did most of the people with us that sexual equality is something there should be there are no arguing. they did make us take the woman out. i hope that has changed now. >> in addition they wanted to lose the dr. spock role. still to come gorge decay was placed behind bob wire at age five. >> oh, boy. it makes me cry. >> we go back to one of the camps were he was held. it makes me happy to go on the computer.

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he remembers that soldiers came to his home in las angeles hand ordered his family to leave. >> i lived in an american internment came. >>reporter: he recalls this as a painful time for him and his family. he wrote about what he called the impulse to smear whole communities. he remembers what his father told him. >> he said our democracy is a peoples democracy. our democracy is viedly dependent on good people to be engaged in bad process. he took me to the head

quarters. >> the incarceration of japanese americans was part of his activism. in 1989 when some were kept their lloyd went along and attended a ceremony for some who had been buried there for decades. >> passing potterrist on highway 139 just south of the border don't notice the dry wheat infested field. the fence is topped with bob ware designed to keep people in. this rem innocents of a foundation a guard tower. they make this as the war relocation center. the plaque describes it as one

of ten concentration camps. this is not a tourist spot. this weekend a bus load of camp inturnees returned as tourist. gene started picking up shells. as a 12-year-old she did the same thing. >> when we were kids here people used to use these as craft items. just to do something for a long time i didn't want to think about it. only recently i thought i should go back and see what it's like. what really was it like. of course it will never be the same because i'm not over their

behind the barb wire. >>reporter: 18,000 were inturned. >> for the first few months the tops were open. they just had 8-foot walls. whatever you said, coughed, was heard one or two apartments. they called them them apartments. >>reporter: roy and ruth found one of the old barracks. they say the barracks were all the same. walking through this 45-year- old building brought back bad memories. >> one family, regardless how many were put in one room. the bed, i don't know what he

had but it had straw in it. oh, boy. it makes me cry. >> we had a shower. >>reporter: this man spent 2 and half months in a stock aid. he was involved in a camp riot. to this day he denies any involvement in the violence. he and hissies there -- his sister were deported to jap japan. even though he was an american citizen. >> some say if they get money they would like to restore the

place to a museum. the children playing don't know what happened here. the elderly who remain silent about this want them to know. >> coming back with third generation it's a memory and tribute and honor. it's not because it's right but because they came. >> the guy said he was shipped here during the war. >> and what do you think about that? >> sad. >> yeah. [drumming] >>reporter: at a small cemetery a memorial service for 11 who died behind the fences. there remains were unclaimed and left behind when the camp

closed. until today their grad had a head stone that says in memory of the decease 1942 to 1945. two years ago mark found the grave. >> we didn't know how many people were in their. who they were or what their story was. we felt the need to honor the individuals. that's a basic thing. >> that remember are remembered today. a elderly man with no family and ten infants believed to be stillborns. >>reporter: most of the morners were japanese americans. >> i'm grateful to all of you for making this a possibility

for history so it won't be repeated again. i think very much. when we come back the role when congressman played on winning reparations for a japanese americans. michelle explains why a civil rights leader asked her to stay on star trek.

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>> half of the cammers are still alive and eligible to reparations. to them the reparations bill marks the independent of a lifelong struggle. >> i don't want to go through my life without that being corrected. my liberties and equalities are not the same as other people. >> former u.s. senator who said he would have voted against the bill if he had a chance wants president reagan to veto it.

they have a higher income. >> they don't know anything. they don't know the trama associated with all of this. >> all japanese were sent to internment camps. this was east of the rocky mountains. relocation was done quickly sometimes with less than 48 hour noticement some families were able to put their stuff in store rest or trust. >> when we come back it was a historic kiss. >> you open the door and change the face of television. >> what martin luther king said

to a cast member.

it where you say the first kiss between an african- american and a white person in 1968. they were forced to kiss by their dap capotes in an episode of star track. the original tv serious thunderstorm watched on many social issues. one of the ground beaking characters was an african person woman. she was portrays as a member of the command staff. she said at one point she was thinking of leaving the show. she changed her name by a civil

rights leader. >> i can see you kirk, do you see me? >>reporter: instar track 6 michelle returns. >> general, are you fond of shakespeare? >>reporter: she had no idea she would be playing the character 25 years after the fact. she was going to quit after the first season. >> i didn't want to get bogged down on a tv series.

that weekend i met dr. martin luther king and when i thanked him for his comment on my role i told him i was leaving the show. he said you absolutely cannot leave the show. he said don't you understand? i thought he meant a role model. he said no it's so much more important that then. he said you are a first. i said, i'm not the first black person on tv. you have the first nonstereotypic call role. this is not a black role or female role. you are part of a command crew. he says don't you know you are 4th in command. he said it's a door opener and

you changed the face of television for ever. the world sees us for the first time as we should be. men and women working on a equal bases and going in peaceful exploration. you can't leave the show. i went back and told gene inwalln't be leaving did show. >> you and william shattner had the first interracial kiss. i didn't realize this was important. then the networks and studio became nervous about it. they thought they would lose

the south. the hate male was father was from a man in the south. he said if captain kirk had a girl in his arms that looked like me he wasn't going to fight. >> that's it for this week second look. thank you for watching.

come on, boys! it's leap day, not sleep day! - whoo! - (claps hands) i love leap day! (chuckles) it's kind of a big deal in the dunphy house. this year, we even got manny involved. you're given this gift of 24 extra hours. you can't waste it at work or school. you have to do something extraordinary, - something shocking. - mm. this year, the entire family is taking a trapeze class. - how extraordinary is that? - it was my idea. how shocking is that? i can be spontaneous every four years. i can't wait. leap day is stupid. you're not understanding the logic behind it. a year is actually 365.25 days. every four years, we gain one day. if we didn't adjust the calendar in, say, 40 years, february would almost be january. that's not my problem, and it's definitely not your problem.