Commentary: 'Star Trek's' Lt. Uhura took Black actresses where none had gone before (via latimesopinion)
Lt. Uhura’s presence on the deck of the starship Enterprise seemed routine for the 23rd century. But the casting of Nichelle Nichols, the Black actress who played Uhura on “Star Trek” in the late 1960s, was extraordinary. Nichols, who later appeared in six “Star Trek” movies,In an era when Black women mainly played servants or entertainers on TV — if they were on TV at all — she was an officer on the Enterprise with whom Capt. Kirk conferred as seriously as he did Mr.
In one episode, she and William Shatner, as Capt. Kirk, exchanged what many think is the first interracial kiss on TV between a white man and a Black woman. Yes, alien forces made them do it, but still. For years, when
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