Strange New Worlds, the prequel series to Star Trek: The Original Series, explores the lives of Captain Christopher Pike and his crew on the USS Enterprise before Captain Kirk took command.

Spock and Uhura. They never kissed. Not in the original timeline. Not in the bridge’s warm lighting or under Vulcan moons.

As communications officer Lt. Uhura (the first name Nyota was a later addition), Nichelle Nichols, who died Saturday at the age of 89, was with the show from first to last, including the ...

They even worked together on developing the character she played: Lt. Uhura, the name inspired by the Swahili word for “freedom.” She later recalled Roddenberry telling her: “I really like t ...

Nichols, of course, was best known for her portrayal of Lt. Nyota Uhura in all three seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series, the short-lived 1973 animated series, plus six feature films featuri ...

The Uhura-Kirk kiss was likely the first televised white/African American lip-to-lip kiss. STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, Nichelle Nichols, wearing her communications ear piece, 1982. (c)Paramount.

Nyota Uhura in the original Star Trek TV series and later in its film franchise, died Saturday night in Silver City, N.M. She was 89 years old. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery ...

Nichelle Nichols, an actress whose role as the communications chief Uhura in the original Star Trek franchise in the 1960s helped break ground on TV by showing a Black woman in a position of ...

By Bruce Weber Nichelle Nichols, the actress revered by “Star Trek” fans for her role as Lieutenant Uhura, the communications officer on the starship U.S.S. Enterprise, died on Saturday in ...

Star Trek's Uhura Reflects On MLK Encounter Nichelle Nichols caused a sensation in the 1960s for her role as Lieutenant Uhura in the classic television series, "Star Trek." It was one of the first ...