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Lt. Uhura, RIP.
1 posted on 08/01/2022 6:55:43 AM PDT by rktman
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Hailing Frequencies Closed.


2 posted on 08/01/2022 6:58:03 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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She’s dead Jim.


3 posted on 08/01/2022 7:07:37 AM PDT by wny
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A very nice clip from the article:

"She often recalled how Martin Luther King Jr. was a fan of the show and praised her role. She met him at a civil rights gathering in 1967, at a time when she had decided not to return for the show’s second season.

“When I told him I was going to miss my co-stars and I was leaving the show, he became very serious and said, ‘You cannot do that,’” she told The Tulsa (Okla.) World in a 2008 interview.

“‘You’ve changed the face of television forever, and therefore, you’ve changed the minds of people,’” she said the civil rights leader told her.

“That foresight Dr. King had was a lightning bolt in my life,” Nichols said."

10 posted on 08/01/2022 7:34:25 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, second of three generations.)
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RIP to the designer of the Bluetooth headset.


12 posted on 08/01/2022 7:36:54 AM PDT by bigbob (z)
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and included an interracial onscreen kiss with co-star William Shatner that was unheard of at the time.

That was nothing. Kirk has a quite a few interspecies kisses on that show. You could always count on him to bang the hot aliens.

17 posted on 08/01/2022 7:42:52 AM PDT by PGR88
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I really liked Lt. Uhura from the original series. IMHO, Nichols was far more attractive than the Lt. Uhura in the Star Trek movies of recent years.


18 posted on 08/01/2022 7:52:23 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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I met her once, back in 1988 in Hawaii. Spoke to her for only a few seconds, but she came across as warm and personable. She suffered greatly from dementia during these last 10 years of her life.


20 posted on 08/01/2022 8:01:29 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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I was five when star trek was on TV. I though she was an alien.


21 posted on 08/01/2022 8:08:51 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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Nichelle was smokin hot on the OS. RIP.


23 posted on 08/01/2022 8:22:56 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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