Nichelle Nichols has such a great reputation. My personal favorite, only met in autograph lines, was DeForest Kelley. Everything I’ve heard says he was a wonderful man, and I loved that his charity was no-kill animal shelters. Husband spent quite a bit of time talking to Frederick Pohl at a tiny MA con because no one else much showed up. Husband was thrilled.
I fear I’m an unrepentent autograph collector. First one was from the gentleman who played The Grey Ghost, Todd Andrews, back in the 50’s. Still remember getting one from a physicist that I explained that I’d heard he would get a Nobel prize one day. Oh, one of my Physics professors did. Very old by that time and spent an entire quarter teaching us that it wasn’t an x,y world. It was an x-x0, y-y0 world. My husband’s PhD advisor remembered his class tried to get him kicked out of teaching for senility.
My wife is bigger on autographs than I am.
We have a fair collection between us.
One is a wedding present of a sort from Peter Jurasik. We had gotten married a few weeks before that con.
The subject came up and he was ecstatic. He insisted on taking an autograph as a present. It’s hanging by the bedroom door.
Peter remembered us every time after that as the wedding kids for the times we went.