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Author Topic: RIP Uhura  (Read 975 times)

tower912

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RIP Uhura
« on: July 31, 2022, 03:58:02 PM »
Time flies.   Nichelle Nichols.  89.
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Re: RIP Uhura
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2022, 05:05:34 PM »
Good on her for sticking with Star Trek even when she wanted to quit due to a bunch of racist bullying BS. Credit to Dr. King for urging her to keep at it. She made a big difference in a lot of lives.

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Re: RIP Uhura
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2022, 07:12:49 PM »
Good on her for sticking with Star Trek even when she wanted to quit due to a bunch of racist bullying BS. Credit to Dr. King for urging her to keep at it. She made a big difference in a lot of lives.

How so?  Serious question.

She had a great voice.  Very, very talented.




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Re: RIP Uhura
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2022, 08:41:30 PM »
How so?  Serious question.

She had a great voice.  Very, very talented.


She has said that in the first season that the execs were withholding her fan mail and cutting her lines. Here is her telling the interesting part of the story about the weekend she tried to quit. A wonderful story about Gene and MLK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSq_UIuxba8

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Re: RIP Uhura
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2022, 08:52:57 PM »
Hugh Hefner identified her talent and One of her early jobs was as a singer at The Playboy Club at Chicago.
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Re: RIP Uhura
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2022, 05:49:35 AM »
Time flies.   Nichelle Nichols.  89.

Only Kirk, Chekov and Sulu remain from the original show.

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Re: RIP Uhura
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2022, 05:56:02 AM »
Only Kirk, Chekov and Sulu remain from the original show.

Oh my!!!
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Re: RIP Uhura
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2022, 06:54:27 AM »
She has said that in the first season that the execs were withholding her fan mail and cutting her lines. Here is her telling the interesting part of the story about the weekend she tried to quit. A wonderful story about Gene and MLK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSq_UIuxba8

Thanks for the link. (With the Vulcan hand gesture)

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Re: RIP Uhura
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2022, 07:06:27 AM »
Hope the link works
https://youtu.be/o-uJOzkrJV4

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Re: RIP Uhura
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2022, 09:00:48 AM »
For you fellow Trekies out there, I'd just like to note Strange New Worlds is an a amazing show.  You get the background of Uhura.

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Re: RIP Uhura
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2022, 11:31:37 AM »
For you fellow Trekies out there, I'd just like to note Strange New Worlds is an a amazing show.  You get the background of Uhura.

I'll second that. I like it better than Discovery and Discovery is not bad. The production of those shows is just outstanding.