Strange New Worlds, Lt. Uhura has gained more depth and gotten more to do than she ever did on Star Trek: The Original Series ...

Unfortunately Nichols declined ... woman in space was inspired to chase her dreams because she saw Uhura do it first on "Star Trek," and she also helped pave the way for other Black women in ...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds understood that it needed to provide a backstory for Uhura's engineering skills. Additionally, making Hemmer her mentor was a stroke of genius. Their scenes together—him ...

Nichelle Nichols' legacy as part of the Star Trek cast has a dark shadow in the form of a personal tragedy linked to the 'final frontier'.

The actress, 86, attended the 18th annual official Star Trek convention ... conservator by a court. Nichols broke a major race barrier when she was cast as Lt. Nyota Uhura in the 1960s sci-fi ...

Though Nichelle Nichols was best known for her role as Lieutenant Uhura on 'Star Trek,' she also played a key role in the formation of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program and inspired generations of ...

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Suddenly, there is an emergency on Vulcan and the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise is crewed with promising cadets like Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov and even Kirk himself, thanks to ...