Thanks to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, this Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) moment from Star Trek: The Original Series makes perfect sense. Uhura was always an integral part of Captain James T. Kirk's ...

When the first season of Star Trek was drawing to a close, actress Nichelle Nichols had enough. She felt she had endured enough racist and misogynistic behavior at the studio and wanted to go back to ...

IDW Publishing has been debuting a lot of new Star Trek books in recent months, and that trend will continue in 2026. IGN can exclusively reveal IDW's latest Trek project, an Uhura-focused one-shot ...

Star Trek Deviations has served as IDW's way of revisiting iconic stories of the series and introducing a twist to tell the tale in a different way. It's essentially its version of Marvel's "What If," ...

LOS ANGELES - MARCH 29: Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in the STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES episode, "Assignment: Earth." Season 2, episode 26. Original air date was March 29, 1968. Image is a screen ...

Just in time for next Black History Month, 'Star Trek' is doing another what-if comic that takes Uhura back to the Civil Rights Movement. Reading time 2 minutes In 2017, IDW released Star Trek: ...

The character of Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) wasn't in either of the original pilot episodes for Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek." The first pilot, "The Cage" — which initially didn't air — didn't have any ...

Let me be the first to say that I took Nichelle Nichols, and her groundbreaking role as Lt. Uhura on “Star Trek,” for granted. Never did I lack appreciation for Nichols’ historic significance or that ...

It was sad to read about the death of Nichelle Nichols. Nichols played Lt. Uhura on “Star Trek.” She helped us imagine a future in which science and reason helped create a more just and equitable ...

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