Posted on 06/05/2015 9:05:16 AM PDT by markomalley
Star Trek actress and NASA recruitment ambassador Nichelle Nicols is recovering in hospital following a stroke.
Nichols – best known for playing Lt Nyota Uhura on TV and in the Star Trek film franchise – suffered a mild stroke while at her home in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening.
Her agent Zach McGinnis informed Nichols’ followers on her Facebook page of the stroke. In an update, he said Nichols had undergone a CAT scan and MRI, and was awake and eating as of Thursday evening.
Nichols has shown minor signs of loss of mobility but otherwise no signs of paralysis.
Nichelle shot to fame as Lt Uhura, the red-mini-dressed, black-beehived comms officer, with one finger pressed to her ear and others massaging the flashing lights of the USS Enterprise’s comms desk in the 1960s TV series Star Trek.
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Went through both one night a couple years back with a one time and inexplicable episode. Thought I was having one. Didn’t though. Almost did when I got the bill.
She and Kirk were also the first interracial kiss on network TV.
Yes it was her use of one of the first blue tooth devices that contributed to her stroke on a serious note prayers up to her
Black don’t crack like white folk
82. Wow!
Time has flown. Just flown.
She is still beautiful Its much more than skin deep, you can see it in her eyes.
He was in the Canadian army, and lost the finger from friendly fire while on Juno beach during D-Day.
“Do you not understand what God has given you? … You have the first important non-traditional role, non-stereotypical role. … You cannot abdicate your position. You are changing the minds of people across the world, because for the first time, through you, we see ourselves and what can be.” Nichols remembers King saying to her.
Wow, that’s great!
I believe it was Jane.sc/
AMAZING skin ! She looks fantastic.
"...not every one who wore red got killed..."
It was never used on TV. Some of the Star Trek tie-in novels called her Nyota, but it didn't become official until J. J. Abrams' 2009 movie.
Similarly, Sulu unofficially had the first name Hikaru before it was uttered on-screen in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
It sounds like Ms. Nichols is going to be OK, and that's good news. My grandfather had a stroke when he was about her age, and apart from a slight speech difficulty, pulled through OK and lived for years afterwards.
There’s a Star Trek blooper where Lt. Uhura contacts someone who comes back with a jive accent, so she replies “Hey, sugar, what’s doin’?” in a Black Velvet purr.
Prayers for her recovery.
And she never has abdicated from it
cat scan is always done first if something is suspected a MRI is then done, happen to me 3 yrs ago had a small stroke had a ct done saw something so a mri was done the next day
thx ...
no problem FRiend
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