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    Nichelle Nichols (/nɪˈʃɛl/ nish-EL; born Grace Dell Nichols; December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) was an American actress, singer and dancer whose portrayal...
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    In the original television series, the character was portrayed by Nichelle Nichols, who reprised the role for the first six Star Trek feature films. A...
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    entered into relationships with Nichelle Nichols and Majel Barrett, seeking to have an open relationship with both women. Nichols has since said that they broke...
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  • the first season were the communications officer, Lt. Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), the first African-American woman to hold such an important role in...
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  • Nichelle is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Nichelle Nichols (1932–2022), American actress, singer, and voice artist Nichelle Prince...
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    Celestis' "Enterprise Flight". The flight also would contain the ashes of Nichelle Nichols and Douglas Trumbull. The Celestis "Enterprise Flight" was successfully...
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  • Jr., with a supporting cast of James Coburn, Joanna Bacalso, Sisqó, Nichelle Nichols, Christopher Judge, Michael Bolton and M. Emmet Walsh. The film was...
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  • first broadcast November 22, 1968, Uhura (played by black actress Nichelle Nichols) and Captain Kirk (played by white actor William Shatner) kiss. The...
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  • medical officer. James Doohan as Montgomery Scott, chief engineer. Nichelle Nichols as Nyota Uhura, communications officer. Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov...
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  • Johnson's attorney in a long-running dispute with Nichelle Nichols' former manager, Gilbert Bell. Nichols was an American actress, singer and dancer whose...
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    Before his work on Star Trek, he began relationships with Nichelle Nichols and Majel Barrett. Nichols wrote about their relationship in her autobiography Beyond...
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  • 20, 2015. Nichelle Nichols, Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories, G.P. Putnam & Sons New York, 1994. pp.195-198 Nichols, p.195 Nichols, pp.196-197...
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  • 'You can't. You're part of history.' — Nichelle Nichols, Detroit Free Press (2016) After the show, Nichols used this public standing to speak for women...
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  • acknowledgment and respect from your peers," she said. She met with Nichelle Nichols, who explained to her how she had created Uhura's background, and also...
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    performance in the 1969 film The Learning Tree. He is the son of actress Nichelle Nichols and her husband Foster Johnson. His parents divorced the year he was...
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  • Bryan Fuller conceived the character based on the cultural impact of Nichelle Nichols' portrayal of Uhura, as well as that of Mae Jemison and Ruby Bridges...
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  • Kai Terrence Mann – Oberon Kate Mulgrew – Titania, Anastasia Renard Nichelle Nichols – Diane Maza C. C. H. Pounder – Desdemona, Coldfire Gregg Rainwater –...
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    "Scotty" Scott, chief engineer. Doohan also voiced Arex, a navigator Nichelle Nichols as Nyota Uhura, communications officer. George Takei as Hikaru Sulu...
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    NASA astronaut program. He was one of several astronauts recruited by Nichelle Nichols as part of a NASA effort to increase the number of minority and female...
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  • protect the space-time continuum. His group is filled out by Hawking, Nichelle Nichols, Gary Gygax, and Deep Blue. Fry explains what happened the previous...
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  • Nichelle Nichols deliberately flubbed every take of the latter version, thus forcing the episode to go out with the kiss intact. As Nichelle Nichols writes:...
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    giving women jobs of respect, most notably through the casting of Nichelle Nichols, a black actress, as Uhura, the ship's communications officer. Black...
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  • cropped hair rather than wear a wig to match previous Uhura actresses Nichelle Nichols and Zoe Saldaña because she felt they both represented the "black femininity"...
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  • and film dialogue of the characters as depicted by Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, and René Auberjonois, respectively. Beverly Crusher...
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    Retrieved 17 November 2014. The Morning Call (16 November 2014). "Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura on Star Trek, dazzles at Great Allentown Comic...
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  • The series so typecast the actors, however—as early as March 1970, Nichelle Nichols complained of Star Trek having "defined [her] so narrowly as an actress"...
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  • justice, until he is blackmailed by Mr. Burns to do his bidding. Actress Nichelle Nichols appeared as herself. The episode received positive reviews. After seeing...
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  • Trek star Nichelle Nichols had joined the soap for a two-episode stint beginning with the 11,000th episode. Speaking of joining the soap, Nichols told Mashable...
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  • lifelong fan of Star Trek, having been inspired to become an actress by Nichelle Nichols' appearances as Uhura in The Original Series. Goldberg later recalled...
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    discovered Nimoy's "compassion, his intelligence and his humanity". Nichelle Nichols noted that Nimoy's integrity, passion and devotion as an actor "helped...
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