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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on July 31, 2022, 08:07:57 PM

Title: Nichelle Nichols dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 31, 2022, 08:07:57 PM

Hailing frequencies closed

https://comicbook.com/startrek/news/nichelle-nichols-dead-star-trek-uhura/

Title: Re: Nichelle Nichols dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 31, 2022, 08:16:21 PM

"I thought it was a Trekkie, and so I said, 'Sure.' I looked across the room and whoever the fan was had to wait because there was Dr. Martin Luther King walking towards me with this big grin on his face. He reached out to me and said, 'Yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan.' He said that Star Trek was the only show that he, and his wife Coretta, would allow their three little children to stay up and watch. [She told King about her plans to leave the series because she wanted to take a role that was tied to Broadway.] I never got to tell him why, because he said, 'you cannot, you cannot...for the first time on television, we will be seen as we should be seen every day, as intelligent, quality, beautiful, people who can sing dance, and can go to space, who are professors, lawyers." Dr. King Jr went further stating "If you leave, that door can be closed because your role is not a black role, and is not a female role, he can fill it with anybody even an alien""

Title: Re: Nichelle Nichols dead
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 01, 2022, 06:05:56 AM

Sad news.

Title: Re: Nichelle Nichols dead
Post by: Anchorman on August 01, 2022, 09:07:35 AM

Another crew member boldly goes...
And a pretty good singer as well.

Title: Re: Nichelle Nichols dead
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 01, 2022, 10:06:02 AM

A nice collection of photographs here:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2022/jul/31/star-treks-nichelle-nichols-a-life-in-pictures?