geekery for the day
1 Mar 2008 04:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaigouApparently, Dr. King talked Nichelle Nichols out of leaving Star Trek...
That series was on reruns by the time I was allowed to watch anything other than Sesame Street, and given the diversity on Sesame Street, I probably figured Star Trek -- with its hokey costumes and plots but obvious mix of ethnic and cultural backgrounds -- wasn't all that landmark. I thought Captain Kirk was too square-face farmboy, and Spock's voice gave me the creeps (mostly because I already associated it with the narrator on In Search Of), but I had the biggest freakin' grade-school crush on Uhura.
Purely innocent except for the greedy element of "when I grow up, I want to be her!". I just thought she was Sexy-Smart Incarnate: she knew everything that was happening on the ship, when she said stuff, everyone listened, and she looked good while doing it and was always cool and collected -- how can such a combination not be totally hot!?
Now she's what, in her sixties? The woman is still sexy-smart incarnate. Zzzzing!
[I find myself thinking, okay, world: since you didn't let me grow up to be Tina Turner, can I be Nichelle Nichols instead?]
That series was on reruns by the time I was allowed to watch anything other than Sesame Street, and given the diversity on Sesame Street, I probably figured Star Trek -- with its hokey costumes and plots but obvious mix of ethnic and cultural backgrounds -- wasn't all that landmark. I thought Captain Kirk was too square-face farmboy, and Spock's voice gave me the creeps (mostly because I already associated it with the narrator on In Search Of), but I had the biggest freakin' grade-school crush on Uhura.
Purely innocent except for the greedy element of "when I grow up, I want to be her!". I just thought she was Sexy-Smart Incarnate: she knew everything that was happening on the ship, when she said stuff, everyone listened, and she looked good while doing it and was always cool and collected -- how can such a combination not be totally hot!?
Now she's what, in her sixties? The woman is still sexy-smart incarnate. Zzzzing!
[I find myself thinking, okay, world: since you didn't let me grow up to be Tina Turner, can I be Nichelle Nichols instead?]