She worked for NASA too. Wow! Star Trek...The Next Generation
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The Shatner-Nichols kiss was seen as groundbreaking, even though the kiss was portrayed as having been forced by alien telekinesis. There was some praise and some protest. In her 1994 autobiography, Beyond Uhura, Star Trek and Other Memories, on page 197 Nichols cites a letter from one white Southerner who wrote: “I am totally opposed to the mixing of the races. However, any time a red-blooded American boy like Captain Kirk gets a beautiful dame in his arms that looks like Uhura, he ain’t gonna fight it.” During the Comedy Central roast of Shatner on August 20, 2006, Nichols jokingly referred to the groundbreaking moment and said, “Let’s make TV history again … and you can kiss my black ass!”
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After the cancellation of Star Trek, Nichols volunteered her time in a special project with NASA to recruit minority and female personnel for the space agency, which proved to be a success.[13] She began this work by making an affiliation between NASA and a company which she helped to run, Women in Motion.[14][15][16][17][18][19]
Those recruited include Dr. Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, and United States Air Force Colonel Guion Bluford, the first African-American astronaut, as well as Dr. Judith Resnik and Dr. Ronald McNair, who both flew successful missions during the Space Shuttle program before their deaths in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986. Recruits also included Charles Bolden, the current NASA administrator, and Lori Garver, the current Deputy Administrator.[19]
An enthusiastic advocate of space exploration, Nichols has served since the mid-1980s on the Board of Governors of the National Space Society, a nonprofit, educational space advocacy organization founded by Dr. Wernher von Braun.[17]
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More here...
http://3chicspolitico.com/2013/02/06/wednesday-open-thread-53/
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It was a great post. I learned things about Nichelle Nichols that I never knew.
Here is the link:
Posted by freshwest.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11027217
Thanks oregonjen!
She is a Woman, she can do anything!
but those boots - oh myyyy
is that her alternate universe uniform was a 2-piece: and she ROCKED it!
Oops! Meant to reply to the "which is sexier?" post. Sorry! 
ST
OS
hated that show
I read that Whoopi Goldberg said that Nichelle inspired her to be a performer, which is why she approached Roddenberry about being in TNG.
She also delivered what I consider one of the best lines in TV, ever> When Sulu thought he was a swashbuckler and saw Uhura:
Sulu: Ah, fair maiden!
Uhura: Sorry, neither!
Love the Ebony cover of Ms. Nichols in the Jeffries Tube. ( A little Star Trek geek trivia there )
