2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTaken 2/29/12 in the Oval Office--"Live Long and Prosper"
Has this been posted yet? Nichelle Nichols tweeted her photo an hour ago...pretty sweet.
https://twitter.com/#!/RealNichelle
http://twitpic.com/95b6ki
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)Our president is a Star Trek fan too! I love Nichelle. She is such a lovely and talented woman.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)I vaguely remember reading a Leonard Nimoy interview in 2008 in which he says he encounters then Sen. Obama (while walking thru an airport, I think) who instantly recognizes him and promptly flashes him the Vulcan hand salute......
bayareamike
(602 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)You could have knocked me over with a damned feather after seeing that.
Star Trek forever. I think he better go with that.
2ndAmForComputers
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silverweb
(16,402 posts)NBachers
(17,107 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,784 posts)But I always thought Lt Uhura was the coolest! So calm, even when all hell was breaking loose around her and the bridge (aboard the Enterprise)
http://www.startrek.com/database_article/tuvok
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Thanks for the pic!
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)dimbear
(6,271 posts)Rules of Acquisition, my friends. Rules of Acquisition.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)He'd fuck the Crystalline Entity over for a chance to gain more beach front real estate.
bananas
(27,509 posts)Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)(Comment made by 'Fledgist'.)
Thanks for posting this! She looks just great!
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)She does look great. I love her Starfleet pendent too.
jade3000
(238 posts)lol
catchnrelease
(1,945 posts)I expect his picture will be on the front page of the Inquirer, next to the Batboy--ALIEN OBAMA!!!!!!
livetohike
(22,140 posts)Thanks for posting this .
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)paparush
(7,964 posts)Danascot
(4,690 posts)He's a vulcanized muslin?
SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)I remember as a little girl looking up to Nichelle Nichols for being a Lieutenant on the Enterprise. I tuned in just to see her.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)One of the organizers came up to me and said that there was someone who wants to meet you; and he says that hes youre best, biggest fan and Im thinking its a Trekkie! [laughs] and so I said certainly and I got up and turned around and maybe 10 or 15 feet coming towards me I see Dr. Martin Luther King and I remember thinking whoever that little fan is, hes going to have to wait, because heres Dr. King, who walks straight up to me with this big, magnificent smile on his face and says, Im the fan! because Im sort of looking around for someone else, and he says, I am your best fan, I am your biggest fan! and I I was at a loss for words, and if you know me, I am never at a loss for words.
I just couldnt say a thing and he began to tell me how important my role was, what an inspiration it was. And you have to understand we were in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, people were regularly being attacked by dogs, and marchers were being hosed on the television every night, real life things, and here I am in this futuristic thing on TV and he was so complimentary, he told me I was so important and the way you have created this role, and I am just looking at him and looking at him and I remember I just kept hoping hed never stop talking. Because his voice is just you know the voice. And I finally just start saying, thank you so much Dr. King and I am shaking his hand and still shaking from nervousness and I said thank you so much and I am really going to miss my co-stars.
And at this his face totally changed, and he said What are you talking about?! and so I told him I would be leaving the show, because; and that was as far as he let me go, and he said, STOP! You cannot! You cannot leave this show! Do you not understand what you are doing?! You are the first non-stereotypical role in television! Of intelligence, and of a woman and a woman of color?! That you are playing a role that is not about your color! That this role could be played by anyone? This is not a black role. This is not a female role! A blue eyed blond or a pointed ear green person could take this role! And I am looking at him and looking at him and buzzing, and he said, Nichelle, for the first time, not only our little children and people can look on and see themselves, but people who dont look like us, people who dont look like us, from all over the world, for the first time, the first time on television, they can see us, as we should be!
As intelligent, brilliant, people! People in roles other than slick tap dancers, and maids, which are all wonderful in their own ways, but for the first time we have a woman, a WOMAN, who represents us and not in menial jobs, and you PROVE it, this man [Gene Rodenberry] proves and establishes a precedent that validates what we are marching for because three hundred years from today there we are, and there you are, in all our glory and all your glory! And you CANNOT leave!
And I did not leave.
AnnieBW
(10,425 posts)And I always get a chill when she tells that story.
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)...it also reflects Obama's position as President.
One of the cool things about ST was that they had "one of every kind" in the crew, and yet it did not stand out or seem that noticeable. It was simply the future as we understood it would develop.
horseshoecrab
(944 posts)Love this fantastic photo!
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)My favorite Star Trek the Original Series star and my president!
Skittles
(153,150 posts)I used to RUN home from school to catch Star Trek at 4:00 PM - I was so impressed with this beautiful black gal ON TV *NOT PLAYING* a maid or a prostitute!
AnnieBW
(10,425 posts)Full text, including Nichelle's tweets, at HuffPo:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/04/obama-nichelle-nichols-star-trek-_n_1402836.html?ref=entertainment&ir=Entertainment
MADem
(135,425 posts)What a great pic!
shireen
(8,333 posts)Fantastic photo, thanks for posting.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,013 posts)all my friends and I thought Uhura was great. He just smiled in agreement.
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Tarheel_Dem
(31,233 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,896 posts)Thanks for posting. That made my day too!