Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols

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Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols

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Nichelle Nichols in her role as Lieutenant Uhura in Star Trek, 1967, which was considered a pioneering television role for a Black actor at the time [image: NASA on Wikimedia Commons Public Domain]

The story behind the iconic interracial kiss

On a 1968 episode of Star Trek, Nichelle Nichols, playing Lieutenant Uhura, locked lips with William Shatner’s Captain Kirk in what’s widely thought t, William Shatner Star Trek CR Wikimedia Commons public domain, William Shatner as Captain James T Kirk in Star Trek; a storyline in which Kirk and Uhura were impelled to kiss was seen as a landmark TV moment [imag