Uhura's Most Important Star Trek Episodes

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The trail-blazing, multi-talented Star Trek: The Original Series actor Nichelle Nichols has passed away but one massive part of her legacy lives on through the character of Lieutenant Uhura. Nichols first brought Uhura to the screen in 1966 and she continued to make appearances in the role for many decades after. Her performance was a pioneering portrayal of a Black woman in a position of power on the TV, which led to later Star Trek actors such as Whoopi Goldberg being inspired by Nichols to join the franchise.

Playing Uhura also led to Nichols's life of activism. Martin Luther King Jr once encouraged Nichols to remain on Star Trek when she was considering leaving for a career in Broadway, but King recognized what important work she was doing. Later, Nichols worked with NASA to help recruit more minority and female personnel to the agency. Her work with NASA was explored in depth in the 2019 documentary, Woman in Motion. 

Related: Star Trek: How Martin Luther King Jr. Saved Uhura

Since Nichols' performance as Lieutenant Uhura, the Chief Communications Officer on the Starship Enterprise, there have been two other major performances of the role; In J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies Zoe Saldana played Uhura, and in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Celia Rose Gooding took on the character. Although these later iterations gave Uhura more screen-time and more character development than she got in The Original Series, Nichelle Nichols' Uhura shouldn't be overlooked. There were several episodes in The Original Series where Nichols dominated the screen and had a long-lasting impact on the world of TV. Here are Lieutenant Uhura's most important Star Trek episodes.

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