Actress Nichelle Nichols, best known for playing chief communications officer Uhura in the original Star Trek series, has died. She was 89.
Her death in Silver City, New Mexico, was announced Sunday by her family and confirmed by Gilbert Bell, her talent manager and business partner, according to Variety."I regret to inform you that a great light in the firmament no longer shines for us as it has for so many years," her son Kyle Johnson announced on Facebook."Last night, my mother, Nichelle Nichols, succumbed to natural causes and passed away.
— Smithsonian Channel December 28, 2018 Nichols, a black woman, shared one of the first interracial kisses on television with William Shatner, who played Capt. James Kirk of the starship Enterprise on the original Star Trek TV series in the 1960s. Whoopi Goldberg, who later starred as Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation, credited Nichols for being her role model to go for such a role.
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