Actress Nichelle Nichols is best remembered for playing Lieutenant Uhura in the original Star Trek series Landing the role was a personal win for Nichols making her one of the first African American women on a major TV show But a greater win was to come of it Nichols had actually resigned from Star Trek after its first season to return to her theater work But then she met Martin Luther King Jr who urged her not to leave For the first time he said African Americans were being seen on TV as intelligent people who could do anything even [... more]