Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Convinced Nichelle Nichols To Not Quit ‘Star Trek’
Written by Tariq on August 2, 2022
Star Trek icon Nichelle Nichols understood the power of fandom firsthand. After all, it was a Trek fan that convinced her to remain with the classic sci-fi show when she tendered her resignation from Starfleet following the freshman year of The Original Series aired between 1966 and 1967. And not just any fan: pioneering civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is the reason why Nichols’s communications officer, Lt. Uhura, stayed on the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise throughout the show’s three-season run, and the many feature films that followed.
Nichols had her fateful close encounter with Dr, King at an NAACP event. “He told me that he was my biggest fan,” she remembered in From the Bridge. “And he asked me to please stay on the show — that I was a role model to Black children and women all across America … He told me that I couldn’t leave: that I was part of history.” Click Here To Read More.
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