OT: RIP Lt Uhura
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Another tv icon from one of history’s greatest shows though nobody saw it being so successful not even Gene Roddenberry
At an awards banquet, and my daughter just showed me on her phone. Wow... R.I.P. to a beautiful woman and a real trailblazer. I had a serious crush on her when I was a kid.
She was part of the first interracial kiss ever shown on television. Loved her work on the series and movies. RIP, Ms. Nichols.
RIP Nichelle Nichols. One of my favorite characters.
True story but she had doubts about her part in the show. It was a chance meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr who convinced her to stay on the show because she was a black woman who was an officer and who's part was bigger in keeping peace.
Truly a great and graceful woman. She will be missed.
True story but she had doubts about her part in the show. It was a chance meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr who convinced her to stay on the show because she was a black woman who was an officer and who's part was bigger in keeping peace.
Truly a great and graceful woman. She will be missed.
Gene Roddenberry had to fight to get her on the bridge, arguing that centuries in the future race wouldn't be an issue.
Neither did NBC or the Nielsen folks as it only lasted three seasons because of low ratings.
Syndication saved it to boldly go where no series had gone before.
"Uhura" (Swahili for "freedom") was a good name
If she was "Ripley" things wouldn't have been the same
Originally her character was supposed to be called "Sulu" but since it sounded like Zulu the name was changed
Her first name - "Nyota" (Swahili for star) - was only used once.
I was always surprised the name never became generally popular (I thought the same of "Nova" in planet of the apes).
She was a key character
She wanted to quit the show for Broadway but MLK told her she was too important on Star Trek
If she was "Ripley" things wouldn't have been the same
Originally her character was supposed to be called "Sulu" but since it sounded like Zulu the name was changed
Her first name - "Nyota" (Swahili for star) - was only used once.
I was always surprised the name never became generally popular (I thought the same of "Nova" in planet of the apes).
She was a key character
She wanted to quit the show for Broadway but MLK told her she was too important on Star Trek
Only Sulu and Chekov left. Kirk's crew is getting thin.
Love her uniform in the alternate universe.
R.I.P. to a beautiful lady.
Love her uniform in the alternate universe.
R.I.P. to a beautiful lady.
RIP. Classy lady.
Kirk and Sulu will be last two left. At each other's throats for eternity.
Kirk and Sulu will be last two left. At each other's throats for eternity.
Just like everything else TV was different back then. In three seasons Star Trek had 79 episodes.
In contrast Breaking Bad in five seasons had 62.
In contrast Breaking Bad in five seasons had 62.
The kind of impact her character had. Can't imagine this airing today. We can learn something from a 55 year old TV show.
That was one of the Star Trek drinking game rules:
red shirt dies...drink.
There's a funny book written about the Redshirts. Scalzi is the author IIRC.
Star Trek had a lot of problems with character names. Kirk's middle name was changed from the Pilot to the series. LOLWHY?
That's what it was throughout the series. But somewhere in Season 1 Kirk is fighting some alien and the alien shows him his grave. The tombstone said "James R. Kirk"
The R was the block R for Rutgers. James "Rutgers" Kirk. Good legend to go along wiht out Death Star when it finally gets constructed.
