Star Trek Legend Nichelle Nichols Has Died At 89

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“I said well why don’t you do an alliteration of it and soften the end with an ‘a’ and it will be Uhura,” Nichols recalled in an interview years later. “[Roddenberry] said, ‘That’s it. That’s your name.’”

Initially frustrated with her lines getting cut and racism she faced on the studio lot, she famously almost quit the series after one season to pursue theater jobs. But she decided to stick with it after a chance encounter with Martin Luther King Jr., who convinced Nichols of the significance of her role to the Black community.

“He said, ‘For the first time on television we will be seen as we should be seen every day, as intelligent, quality, beautiful people,’” she recalled. “And he said, ‘… Gene Roddenberry has opened a door for the world to see us. If you leave, that door can be closed.’

“And at that moment the world tilted for me,” Nichols said.

Still, she had to continue fighting for lines and for her character’s integrity. In her autobiography, she recalled one new director who insisted that Uhura “do something cutesy” that she “simply would not do.” She held her ground and — after Roddenberry backed her up — the director relented.

“This was not a ‘female role,’” she recalled, using her hands to make air quotes, in Woman in Motion, a 2021 documentary about her life and work with NASA. “And I refused to treat it that way.”

Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, the son of Gene Roddenberry and an executive producer of several franchise series, reacted to her death on Sunday.

The Cannes Film Festival Is Practically The New Met Gala, So I’m Curious What You Think Of These 40 Viral Looks

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31 Outdoor Home Items So Gorgeous, You’ll Wanna Move To Your Backyard

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This set includes six 28″ Burlywood hardwood handles, six 8″ hardwood mallets with caps for added protection, two 18″ hardwood ending stakes, six 2.8″ weather-resistant molded balls, nine steel wickets with vinyl coating, and a nice bag to carry it all in.

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Get it from Amazon for $39.55+ (available in two colors).

46 Practical Parenting Products That You Should Just Own Already

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The stickers feature letters, numbers, vehicles, butterflies, deep-sea life, animals, fish, dinosaurs, and more. Even if you find stickers on your shoes, walls, coffee table, and laptop later, you’ll be able to easily peel ’em off — phew!

Promising review: “I love that they are removable. They don’t leave marks on your window. You can even place them back on the plastic sheet and use them again. I have a busy box for my toddler and these stickers are in there. She peels them off and puts them on the lid of the box and then peels them off again and puts them back. She creates scenes with them. She puts them on windows at home. I peel them off and put them back. They really are fantastic stickers.” —Elizabeth A. Zapf

Get a pack of 20 sheets from Amazon for $7.99.