she actually changed the future, for all star voyagers

Yes. Mae Jemison was the first Black female Astronaut…because of Nichelle’s collaboration with NASA.

Mae Jemison earned her spot on that mission and was inspired by Nichelle Nichols. Get it right! And never speak that crap again.

@@petepanteraman WRONG. If your lazy ass did something called THOROUGH research (instead of repeating the "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" TALKING POINT), then you'd know MAE HERSELF per Nichelle (in her 1994 interview) said the recruitment program Nichelle had with NASA....opened the doors for Mae. But, this is what happens when you're desperate for a talking point and fail to do research.

@@domarq - She recruited personally Sally Ride, Judith Resnick, Guillion Bluford, and Ron McNair - ALL of the first women and men of color.

Ive heard this story. But I heard it was a woman

I've come across it too, @@Ottophilbut from a source that gave all the credit to JD and didn't mention Nichelle. Guess it's one for the List of Topics to Search; see if we can get the details straight. Wonder if there's more than one case of this happening!

@@alm2187 I heard it at a convention from the two of them when I was a kid. So I only have that to go on.

@@alm2187 There could've been more than one incident. Jimmy-and "ST"- had a great influence on many. I got to meet him and De at one convention, Shatner, Walter, Robin, Michael Forest, Ray Bradbury, and Billy Mumy at a bigger one, and Leonard Nimoy at a CP telethon at WTBS as well.

That choked me up

Hi Ian! I find your comment powerful and eye-opening. I’m a white guy from Europe’s (arguably) “whitest country”. We used to watch Star Trek in the 80’s, both actual and re-runs from the ‘60’s. We never considered blacks (or other races) as inferrior, we never even thaught about it. They were exotic and interesting, that was something very “American” and progressive, to have person of other race as a friend or partner. There is small community of “Afro-Croatians” here, they are 99% mixed race and most beautiful people ever, I have neighbours with 2 kids, mother is local (blonde, white), father is Carribean black. Their children are accepted and treated as equal here. We’re starting to have more considerable influx of immigrants only last 3-4 years so it is still exciting to meet someone who’s not white but now you see those people on a weekly bases, not once in the couple of years as it was before. Also we never had colonial past so no bad memories or history. Moreover - Croatian emigrants to New Zealand in the 19th century were the first whites to work and marry local Maori people and treat them equal to us. It’s much appreciated by Polynesian peoples to this day.

As a white male living in America, I hope that the future we see in TOS, TNG, DS9, and VOY can some day come to pass. Where we aren't judged by...how did Kirk put it in "Plato's Stepchildren"? "Where I come from, size, shape, or color makes no difference." "

Whoopi goldberg is a liberal racist piece of trash. She's not worthy to even be mentioned in the same article much less the same sentence with Nichelle Nichols

Maybe this sounds naive and silly, but I was very into Star Trek. My school and community was all white at the time but I'd sit in class and think why can't this room look more like the Enterprise bridge.

@@timojarun7830 thanks for sharing that brother. All I can tell you is if our future is going to resemble Star Trek it's going to be because of people like you. Despite the racism and violence I have seen in different parts of the world I believe as Abraham Lincoln would say in the better angels of our nature. I think deep down inside we all want to be better people. And I think one day we will be better people. Croatia's on my list of places to visit 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

Well said and very true.

All hail to her Majesty

Heaven itself is improved by her presence there…

Yes RIP, Hailing frequencies closed. :(

She had been monitoring the Empires' "old-style radio waves" and discovered it was the "Son" that the Empire was trying to discredit

Season 2, episode 25 - Bread and Circuses?

Track Gaseous Anomalies from the Bird of Prey in ST:TUC "It's got to have a tailpipe."

@@jasonjimerson7046 yes it was that episode. That episode also has, in my opinion, one of the best insults used in Star Trek

The things gotta have a tailpipe

Would have been hilarious...umm Captain Kirk. 😆

You lucky, lucky person. On the other hand, the rest of us undoubtedly even luckier. :)

I would have promoted you immediately just for the jokes .

I came here to say this, but you beat me to it! "Are you with us? Or against us?"

For me this was the best Uhura scene forever.

Its something the ST: TNG crew never thought of in Nemesis, and they had Data, who advised a defense against the “Picard Maneuver”!

I bet Hemmer was smilng down on Uhura for coming up with that idea from whatever afterlife Aenars believe in. Would have been even better if she had been part of the team to modify the photon torpedo...but being the genius who thought up the workaround to Chang's prototype cloaking device certainly would have made the crusty engineer proud 😉

The best tag line in the movie.

​@@generalilbis That is one of the best retcons I've seen in a long time - bravo!

“Sorry, neither,” it had to be vague to get past the censors

As a Black male and a retired professor I am thankful to you 🙏🏾 both for making her line clear. I was born in 1964 and always remembered this line. I never heard it clearly. Black people would have loved hearing this more clearly.

This was one of my faves. I only saw TOS in syndication but I was shocked this made it to tv.

This was one of the lines that I only fully understood after growing up with the show!

I was 11 in 1966 when I saw "Naked Time" and to me, "fair" meant beautiful or attractive. I didn't necessarily associate it with being blonde and blue-eyed. So when I heard "Sorry, neither," I couldn't understand why Uhura was denying she was a beautiful woman. I, as a young white girl, thought she was very pretty. Took me a while longer to understand what she meant, even the "maiden" part.

TAS series is so amazing. I grew hearing everyone say it was crap and wasnt canon... Today I honestly doubt if any of those people even bothered to see it. Great storylines and the opportunity to go wild with character designs in ways impossible in the 60s or even in the 90s really makes it a treasure IMO. And how can you argue with the entire original cast providing VO???

@@patreekotime4578 Not to mention many of the original writers providing scripts!

And she made it!

If ever you think you don't matter or that your life or upright lifestyle doesn't make a difference, remember this story, remember Nichelle Nichols.

As a young, white, American girl in the 70's I watched the original Star Trek and was instantly drawn to the diversity in the show. Especially Nichelle's Uhura. A strong female was rare in those days and it was wonderful to see this happening. My parents taught us that as girls we could be whatever we wanted and to respect others no matter their background. Learned a lot from my parents, and Star Trek. And thank you to Nichelle Nichols for pushing forward for women in many ways. You will be missed.

Absolutely! I hope she's with her crew in heaven. May they all rest in glory.

Could use some Memory Beta filler on how she can surpass the expectations of the great reasoner, like that. Spock does keep reckoning without emotional intelligence, though. Can feelings improve musicianship that much? We could also use some real-world frame of reference for how mathematically complicated music can really be.

@@alm2187 There was an episode on ST: NG where Data is given a compliment about his skill on the violin. Data disagreed. Sure,he could master the mechanics of the instrument but he lacked "soul".

@@alm2187 Someone who fully understands musical theory can read sheet music and hear the full score in their mind. A novice sees marks on lines, and can perhaps slowly work out each value and slowly translate that to a piano keyboard one. note. at. a. time. Perhaps. EGBDF/FACE. Like any language music can be mastered but is very much complicated to the neopphyte and very mathematical in theory.

(shrug) I always interpreted that there's no call for Cadets to waste neurons on linguistics since computerized translations are good ninety-nine percent of the time, apparently. Bigger question is in NextGen when Riker's prospective First Officer is said to speak forty languages. Viewers tend to ask: "what good does that do?"

With that scene, i assumed that she might have had a basic proficiency, but would have needed more in order to actually make things work there.

Until Trek 09 and the Uhura of SNW, I guess I never thought Uhura was a linguistics expert. Communications and languages aren't the same thing, necessarily. My major was Communications, but the only language I can read (other than English) is Latin and a bit of Klingon!

Another aspect of it may come to light if we research wartime submarines,@@paulfaulkner5786 Would a Comms Officer ever not have proficiency in the enemy language.

100% agree, but this is also a problem that goes well beyond ST VI and indeed all of Star Trek. Earth today still has an estimated 6,000 languages, and the top-spoken languages are as varied as English, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, and Hindi. Even if English is the main global lingua franca, that doesn't make it "Terran" (and ST:DISCO demonstrates languages other than English are still commonly spoken in the 23rd century). Yet other planets are always depicted as monoglot: Vulcan, Qo'nos, Romulus, Bajor... where are the dialects? (I know, I get it, world-building is more art than science, and the story is the top consideration; I'm just highlighting one of the key challenges of realistically portraying these characters and worlds.)

police monitor twitter. arrested people last week

@@esecallum Proof that that freedom of speech is dead and gone.

Wow! I did not see that one coming! Excellent!!

Insubordination to a superior officer is grounds for court martial.

"The thing has to have a tailpipe."

Her refusal to execute the slave, awesome.

I was gonna say the same thing. Not only was it a critical moment, but the ship was spiraling out of control and about to crash out of orbit into the planet. That takes extreme skill to pull that off!

@@atlguy00 And the look Sulu gave her as she took her station seemed to me to say - Well done and it's about time!

I just might have gotten it in the post-Napster era. (I dabbled with Kazaa when it was popular. Shut up! I am not old!) I'd need to go through an external hard drive to find it and then find an expert listener to authenticate it. Guess it's the Stormy Weather of Star Trek soundtracks!

@@alm2187 ooh!!! Would love to hear that! The only thing I was after at that time were books.

I have to add. An absolutely epic lady. Star Trek would not have been the same without her.