Nichelle Nichols Longest On-Camera Interview! | Star Trek's Hit Actress 

Star Trek has had many lovely ladies in its history, but it had only ONE Queen! RIP Nichelle Nicholls forever!!! 😔😔

My beloved Nichelle Nichols “Lieutenant Uhura” of Star Trek has passed away. As a child growing up in the 1960s this iconic woman inspired me. In fact, I thought of my mother when she watching her. She later worked for NASA inducting women into NASA. After the first season of Star Trek in 1966 she was preparing to leave the show when Dr. Martin Luther King advised her to stay indicating that there were very few African-Americans on TV that predicting African Americans in the future in a positive role. What a powerful woman she will be truly missed.. Long live your legacy!

What a lovely lady. She gave us such an iconic character.

Absolutely unforgettable in Star Trek. I grew up admiring and having a crush on her - being young I had not learnt to be afraid of people whose skin colour was different to mine - and thanks in part to Lt. Uhura - I never have. Sail the stars and explore the unkown dimensions of the Universe you beautiful, elegant lady. Rest in peace Nichelle.

I was a Star Trek baby, being a toddler when it was first run. I saw Uhura as someone complected like me, doing the important task of keeping the communications channels open, optimizing the flow of information. She was also a leader, and a team player simultaneously. She knew how her equipment worked, could troubleshoot and repair it when needed. Spock did science, computer troubleshooting, repair, was a leader and a team player. Because of these 2 characters, I worked in the telecommunications industry, troubleshooting the equipment and the network. I have had a career spanning over 30 years, inspired by Star Trek. I owe my thanks to Nichelle and everyone involved in the success of that show and its vision.

What an amazing, thoughtful and eloquent interview. Every Trek fan should see this.

Madam Nichelle Nicholls during the time you were reaching towards new stratospheric planes, there again were not many women of color on television. Yet when Star Trek's weekly showing came up it was awesome to see a mixed collection of beautiful people who could work, travel, live, interact, and strive throughout the difficulties that the dynamics of space can bring. Your optimistic mindset, and engineering skills were adamantly admired by myself. Though I couldn't get past calculus. Miss Nicholls, Lt., Uhura deepest condolences, I hope that you've found peace. What a beautiful lady. To keep your memories vivid I'll watch the episodes of Star Trek. Until then Aye-aye, Lt. Uhura.🌹🤘

We are so grateful to have had her on our screens, Such an Icon for us all 👑😘💛

I had a crush on Uhura. I just watched a 2018 interview where she revealed that she and Gene Roddenberry were in a romantic relationship. How a racist security guard at the studio wouldn't let her through the gate and how the men in the mail room stopped her one day to notify her that racists studio executives weren't allowing them to give her all of her fan mail. She went through so much. Rest In Power 👑🌠☮ Nichelle Nichols 🙏🏾💐.🌌

Loved her as Uhura, the new actress played her well too.

Was saddened to hear of the passing of Nichelle Nichols. Even she had no idea of what impact she was having while making Star Trek all those years ago. Until Martin Luther King convinced her to stay, and what an amazing character she created in Lt. Uhura. Really something special. Iconic and memorable. May you go where no one has gone before. RIP Nichelle. From Australia.

I'm so glad she stayed on Star Trek. I loved her contribution to the show. My Christian faith and my parents' appreciation of all cultures and races predisposed me to accept Gene's vision of a society lacking prejudice and injustice. I definitely was, and am, a Trekkie.

I could listen to her all day.

She was so gorgeous! I remember when I was a little girl in the 60’s watching Star Trek and being in Awe of her poise and elegance. She was so beautiful!

I saw her perform in Toronto many years ago and she had a wonderful voice she had a warm way of interacting with people and very easy going with regards to questions I wish her the best

RIP - Uhura. We will miss you.

I had the honor and pleasure of meeting her, what a gem Nichelle Nichols was. ❤️

Nichelle Nichols forever!! 💛💛💛💛

adding a date for when the interview was made would be Great!

R.I.P. Nichelle. Hailing frequencies closed. 🖖

ONE of the BEST celeb. interviews I have watched in a long time. Amazing..

We have lost a truly great, inspirational, compassionate, insightful, intelligent, humane, beautiful lady today. Though I never met you, I always felt such a deep connection and I can definitely sense the lack of your bright energy today on earth. Wherever it is now they are truly blessed. My thoughts, heart and prayers go out to your family today ❤️❤️🙏❤️❤️

I was very young watching Star Trek in syndication in the 70's. In the bay area we were partially insulated from racism. Ohurah was beautiful and cool. My mother was very progressive with women's issues and I saw the character as part of the cool Star Trek show. She is beautiful, inside and out, still. What a great show glad to hear her experience, she is a true icon now. As I grew up I too realized what Gene Roddenberry was doing. I will always love him for his beautiful vision. Though I will always love Star Trek, I am not much of "Trekie" in the truest sense.

Look at her - in her golden years and still gorgeous. We miss you, Nichelle. 💛🙏🏽

Loved her on Star Trek Nichelle Nichols was.a gorgeous lady rest in peace

GODDESS NICHOLS RULES!

Hailing frequencies closed. Rest in Peace, you beautiful soul. I will miss you.

Nichelle was an incredible actress. RIP

“I wanna know how to fly.” Ur flying now lovely lady. Enjoy the flight. You’ve earned it. Be at peace.

What a spectacular woman. Thank you.

What an amazing woman! She is beautiful and amazing!

She was also fantastic in her brief run as the late Kristoff St. Johns mother on the CBS soap "The Young and the Restless" her performance was Emmy worthy and she was definetly a ground breaker as "Uhura" on Star Trek, one of the few times back then that there were people of color on a major network TV show and she was a beauty and still is..

I was fortunate enough to have met her. RIP :)

What a spectacular interview....I sure miss her

Thank you for being there.

Thanks for inspiring so many! May your legacy continue and your soul rest well 💜 ✨️🙏🏽

Nichelle, Rest in Peace - Rise in Power!

RIP and thank you!

RIP....Nichelle.. You will be missed....A Gorgeous woman who broke barriers.

As a kid she was the only reason why I watched Star Trek..............you will be missed

Rest in Paradise, my dear sister 💙

I had a childhood friend, who once claimed he was Ms. Nichol's hairdresser. His name was Ron and I hadn't seen him since elementary school. He randomly popped at the house of my best friend's friend.Ron told me that now he was a cosmetologist. Me and Ron started chatting and out of the blue he claimed to be doing Ms. Nichol's hair

RIP Nichelle Nichols. You definitely broke a barrier in television playing Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series. You will forever be missed.

R.I.P...you where a trail blazer..gone ...but will always be remembered..😓❤🙏🖖

RIP Uhura 😭😭😭😭

Rest in peace Nichelle Nichols. 😞

Nothing but class, elegance and style.....AND a sense of humor. Wow!

She was so beautiful. Thank you for all you did for women not just Black women but all women.

Rest in peace Nichelle Nichols. I always enjoyed getting to see her in Star Trek :-).

Really enjoyed hearing share her story. I know there's so much more ‼️❤️

Rest in peace Queen. You will be surely missed.

What a natural beauty!

😢Bless you Nichelle, you will be missed. RIP

Nichelle Nichols 😥 in memoriam perpetua!

I've read the "Uhuru's Song", a Star Trek pocket book and it would have been a great episode where she was the main character and she sings a lot more.

Commander UHURU.........OUT!!!!😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I love when she imitates Shatner. She's got all the mannerisms down.

She said a lot with her eyes and her expressions even when there were no lines for her to speak... we heard, her we felt, what she showed us... I say thank you to her for those three seasons at Desilu Studios... all her work has been with me every decade since then and will be, beyond now... feel as though I have lost a long time friend and am feeling sorry for myself; i am....But fan that I am ...I imagine the Enterprise is out there, somewhere waiting at the edge of the universe for all her crew to find there way back to her... Gene Roddenberry waiting to greet them all to take them to where ever they most wanted to go but may have never made it in this life... and as they beam up and materialize on the transporter pad they are as young and vibrant as they were in those days in the 60s... a last gift to them for being there for us... we will always love you all.

Love her

We like you too Nichelle Nichols...surely you attained the rank of Captain in our beloved StarTrek universe...I mean let's get real🤔...how could you not!

Please watch the wonderful Paramount+ documentary "Woman in Motion". It tells the amazing story of how Ms. Nicholls changed the world as the first black woman in a major role in sci-fi, and how she helped NASA recruit women and minorities into the space program. She was a true inspiration for humanity. RIP and Bless you, Nichelle Nichols.🌺

So beautiful she is 😊❤️🙏✝️✌️🧐💕

She had such a beautiful way of looking at the world and her art, truly an inspiration. No words can sum up how much we lost with her passing, but she clearly left the world in a much better state than she found it.

Thank you Nichelle, thank you.

I liked Lieutenant Uhura, but to be honest I always saw that character as one of the guys. Original Star Trek, to me, is the greatest show ever produced. I'm glad she has these thoughts and reflections. A cool lady. I'm sorry she recently passed.

Rest in peace, Nichelle. You were a class act.

See! This is an amazing woman. Where are they now?

I loved Nichelle. I'd love to listen to her and really learn from her.

My brother his friend and me as kids were pretending we were star trek characters and the friend was capt kirk bro was spock and I was uhura😁I wish I could here that recording today, 55 years later

Gosh Nichelle nichols is beutifull even more so in her later years ! But what and who she is on the inside is ten fold more !

I hereby promote Lt. Uhura to Admiral Uhura!

She was great in the original series

Future... Paradise... When we r civilized. Great Goal.

Such a wonderfully serious minded delightful officer of the federation. Really a strong iconic force that through theater brought the words of Martin Luther King Jr about the scintillating light of a not so distant future. By making her so real she made it a reality.

So beautiful, so elegant! 😍

She did not change my mind. I was young enough that she was able to guide my thinking into understanding that the differences don't have to be divisions. Prize the differences.

I follow the serious for years, I had so much reverence for Gene Roddenberry! I still do. I saw way back in the 80s what this man thought and felt in his heart. Anyone follows surely knows the Great work he did and The unsung accolades he should have! For if we grew to a future that he saw her mankind, we surely would not be in this spot we are today. I personally thought his influence would change the world much more than it did. But unfortunately his wisdom got put into a box what's on the side wow humans still chase the dollar instead of the dream!

When did this interview take place?

I admired her because of Trek. I regarded her very highly for years until I heard her talk politically. The way she talks about Martin Luther King is inspiring and I guess I expected more from her. So, for years I felt disappointed in her. Now, hearing this video I see why she is so personable. I wish all actors and actresses did not talk about politics because I really do enjoy so many of their expertise in acting. I'm all for a black president, but one that unites us instead of dividing us. She is one of those Actresses that never got the starring role she deserved. Granted, through ST I love her and enjoy her, but she also should have had a shinning career in other venues as well. She never got that role that woul push her into mega stardom. This is also so very important with all the Gene bashing that is being done by his son, Paramount, and Star Trek management itself. She is giving you some small window into what Star Trek was before the greed in ST today. I may disagree with her politically, but I love her. I am so thankful that ST gave her the opportunity to impact so many people in a positive way. You do not hear modern day Trek fans (they are not Trekkies or Trekkers) talk about ST, the characters, nor the show like this. Trekkies and Trekkers know what she is talking about and respect Gene as well as the actors. ST is more than a vision, it is a life all its own created by these people and taken up by the fans. You do not see the knowledge and dedication in modern day fans. They talk about what is common such as Creations being the first ST convention forgetting that the first one was by Joan Winston in 72, while Creations was a comic book store in LI and Adam was trying to talk his Dad into doing conventions. So, much history is disappearing and to hear her talk is a blessing.

She's very poorly now and family are arguing over her money. Very sad state of affairs when she is this iconic.

Beautiful, smart, and talented.

She and Capt Kirk made a kiss on the show. Iconic action there.

I read Ms. Nichols' memoir and the story she told regarding how much of a 'family' that cast was - Shatner and Nimoy had instructed the mail room NOT to give Nichelle her fan mail! Apparently she was getting more mail than they were and they were jealous. Anybody feel free to correct me if this story is wrong.....

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She is so beautiful

For the sake of accuracy the KISS was not the first interracial kiss on network TV. Check out the NBC special Movin' With Nancy in which Nancy Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. kiss. That was in 1967 a full year before ST.

A truly beautiful and magnificent and articulate woman !!!! 👍

Star trek had all kinds of people on the ship for its time that people were going to turn out working together in the future that it would happen some how the way it was meant to be in time if you really want it to happen more when any thing else you want to have

You need to do one with Lindsay Wagner.

I would have taken 300 takes on the "interracial kiss"

Classy lady

When was this interview taped ? I lookin' , lookin' and could not find a date for taping. I found the date for upload of the interview to RU-vid (2022) . TAPING and UPLOAD is two different things . I found another Nichelle Nichols (NN) interview dated (2010). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dYK2s3YM_o8.html (08:58) NN looked and spoke the same as in this interview. So i am suggesting that this interview was made (taped) in (2010).

Ok, we loved you, so that worked.

I regret that I won't live long enough to attend Admiral Uhura's retirement party!

What the...?!? Most Videos from "Pioneers of Televison" had Time Chapters. Why does THIS VIDEO AND THE VIDEO OF GEORGE TAKEI suddenly does not have ANY Time Chaperts???? Not good, beacuse of missing Time Infos. UPDATE / PS.: Leonard Nimoy and William Shatners Videos got Chapters and these Videos were posted earlier. (It could be tha the Chanel decided to put Chapers in, later. That the First Videos the produced doesn't get / have Chapters, and then suddenly the Chanel decided to put in Chapters from this Moment on / from this Video forward, okay ... could be. BUT THIS VIDEO HERE with Nichelle Nichols AND the other one with with George Takei came out AFTER the Videos from Leonard and Bill... so that cannot be the explanation. Since her/hiis Video got out later. So what's going on? And yes it also could be that at a certain Point they decided to use Chapers / to put in Chapters, and then after some time, they chanced there mind again and went back to no-Chapters. But this ALSO cannot be the Chase since the Video that was posted later, since the next Video, the one with James Edward Olmos suddenly has Chapters again. Hmm...) Just saying, just Noticing. That's all

What was SO CAPTIVATING ABOUT MS NICHELLE is the SOUND of her voice. She could tell a MUSLIM to eat PORK, an they WOULD do it.

I don’t really believe it’s Star Trek. It’s Hollywood. They rebooted Star Trek. On Paramount spun it. Didnt go over so well/sit well some of us. All the good that did. 😒. I know I know this isnt for Star Wars. But, samething kinda happened to Star Wars. Too much politics was&is clouding it after Kennedy created w/force is female.👈🏻That didnt go over so well. Then the confusion set in w/all three films. Some Star Wars live action TV shows werent going ok. Could have been better/worse. Then recently Kenobi is kinda laughable. Im thinkin Disney just ‘73 it. (Side Note:Which is attached to Roe v Wade). Im thinkin Disney just ‘73 it. Using old ideas/scene clips for new scenes/movies. Which doesnt go over so good. & at the sametime it tries/kinda links OT. While rendering Old legends obsolete. Which is an insult to lot of fans. My view point/opinion: COVID19 & inflation isnt helping(Stupid). W/all the shit flyin around at now. Hollywood & Disney were doing ok. Could have been better. Disney needs to broken up. Also Disney turn Star Wars the family soap opera into a fan opera. Which is out of place. Its a failure in corporations that big(Monopolies). George Lucas created Star Wars to be a family soap opera. Not Moral soap opera. I neither like nor dislike the Sequel Trilogy. Just ☹️(Disappointed). Now Nicholas it the nail on the head. Star Trek is a moral space opera. It’s designed to be like that.

These people obsessed with race........I would love to ask her a question : "The Black on White Crime Rate is staggering.....stunning.....mind boggling. How is this not the real racism in America ?"

She is SO RIGHT about US TREKKIES, we ALL come in different sizes shapes and colors. And ID bet that 75 percent of us DONT HAVE TO WONDER WHERE OUR NEXT MEAL IS COMING FROM. LONG LIVE THE QUEEN.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️