Nichelle Nichols - Whoopi Goldberg, Martin Luther King Jr. on Star Trek's UHURA
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- čas přidán 25. 04. 2020
- 0:00 Actress #NichelleNichols on how Lieutenant #Uhura inspired #WhoopiGoldberg
1:25 Whoopi tells her side of the story
2:09 Nichols discusses how #MartinLutherKingJr - a fan of #StarTrek - convinced her to stay on the show
#RepresentationMatters
The fact that one Star Trek actress can influence another in the same franchise is remarkable in itself. Nichelle was a true pioneer whose legacy lives on, even today. 🖖😎👍
RIP Nichelle Nichols. She was not only a part of television history but also civil rights history. You will be missed.
You too huh?
Loved it, when Lt Uhura slapped Sulu in "Mirror, Mirror". In the alternate universe, they were like pirates! The actors must have had a blast, making that episode.
I can't believe this doesn't have more views.
I always loved this story 🖖
For a sheltered boy of ten-years-old, I never looked as Lt. Uhura as specifically a "black woman", I thought of her as a wiz in communications technology. One episode has her underneath her console, "soldering iron" in hand reworking the circuitry, dressed in coveralls, hard at work...and when Spock queried her progress, she quipped, "I haven't done this kind of thing in years, it's very delicate work Sir"...telling all of us, this is all "old hat" stuff...been there, done that...in response, Spock responds with "I can think of no one more qualified Lieutenant , please proceed".
And that’s exactly the correct way to view it. It’s the way she was intended to be viewed by the majority. That was kind of the whole point of what Gene Roddenberry wanted to do, and the point MLK was making. The only way you could view her as not specifically a “black woman” was for her to be in a role that wasn’t written as a black woman. Lt. Uhura was the communications officer on a starship! And having a black woman play her helped to normalize the idea that black people could be viewed as something other than a stereotype.
Stunning, what a radiant beauty, and amazing soul.
Love you so much, Nichelle, rest in life.
RIP Nichelle Nicols
I LOVED Whoopi Goldberg on Star Trek. She was auh-mazing.
No matter your race, gender, sexuality etc. we are all going into space.
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That’s pretty awesome
Fascinating, as Commander Spock would say.
Exactly not some wealthy person’s Mamie. An intellectual explorer
RIP Nichelle Nichols, you have done so much for minorities
Plus women 👏👏👏 rest in power
Not a black role, not a female role.
Today for everybody Ltd. Uhura could not be anything else without offending Star Trek.
Well... that's because the character is established. If we had a different Star Trek show with a different communications officer, we wouldn't care if they were black, white, female, alien, or a robot.
Star Trek was a Science Fiction show.
What did Martin Luther King ever say about science and technology?
not much but thats not the point, the point is Star Trek offers a very optimistic vision of the future and black people are a part of that future. whereas before that it seemed like they were not.
@@Kain5th
What did MLK say about the Ethiopian Bible?