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This ‘Star Trek’ Actress Changed TV (and NASA) Forever

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
6 years 3 months 2 weeks ago

YouTube description:

Live long and prosper? Nichelle Nichols sure has. At the height of the American civil rights movement, she played “Star Trek’s” Lieutenant Uhura—then one of television’s few confident, strong Black female characters. It was a trailblazing role she nearly walked away from—until a certain legendary activist and super fan intervened. Who knew Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Trekkie?

7 Comments

BSR

I rode in an elevator with Nichelle Nichols back in 1989 at Magnum Opus Con in Greenville, South Carolina. I was starstruck.

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Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by C-note.

ant

Did you even talk to her? Obviously, no pictures.

BSR

I rode in an elevator with Nichelle Nichols back in 1989 at Magnum Opus Con in Greenville, South Carolina. I was starstruck.

BSR

Talked briefly. Told her I couldn't believe I was meeting her. The usual fan stuff. It wasn't until afterwards I thought I should have said, "bridge" as soon as the doors closed.

A lost moment.

ant

Did you even talk to her? Obviously, no pictures.

ant

jokingly says...

Do what Star Trek and other scifi does, time travel!

BSR

Talked briefly. Told her I couldn't believe I was meeting her. The usual fan stuff. It wasn't until afterwards I thought I should have said, "bridge" as soon as the doors closed.

A lost moment.

MilkmanDan says...

Heard a lot of that before, but I never knew that Nichelle was thinking of leaving the show and got talked out of it by MLK himself. Wow!

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