The pioneering actress who played Lt. Nyota Uhura for over three decades is being mourned around the planet.
, Adam Nimoy, George Takei, LeVar Burton, Kate Mulgrew, J.J. Abrams, Wilson Cruz, Jeri Ryan, Alex Kurtzman, and dozens more.
"Star Trek" actress Nichelle Nichols was employed by NASA to recruit new astronauts into the late 1980s.."She was a beautiful woman and played an admirable character that did so much for redefining social issues both here in the US and throughout the world. I will certainly miss her. Sending my love and condolences to her family."
Celia Rose Gooding, currently starring as a younger Nyota Uhura in Paramount Plus's"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," offered her own words to the memory of Nichols."She made room for so many of us,"."She was the reminder that not only can we reach the stars, but our influence is essential to their survival.
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