Uhura Quotes and Sound Clips

Nyota Uhura (English pronunciation: /??h??r?/; from Swahili nyota, "star", and uhuru, "freedom"), originally played by Nichelle Nichols, is a character in Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series, the first six Star Trek films, and the 2009 film Star Trek. In the 2009 film, a younger Uhura is portrayed by actress Zoe Saldaña. Uhura was part of the original series' pioneering multicultural cast; she was one of the first major black characters on an American television series. Soon after the first scripts for Star Trek were being written, Gene Roddenberry spoke of a new character, a female communications officer and introduced Herb Solow and Robert Justman to Nichols, who had worked for him on The Lieutenant. Nichols planned to leave Star Trek in 1967 after its first season, but a conversation with Martin Luther King, Jr. persuaded her to stay, stating that she was a role model for the black community. Uhura is from the United States of Africa and speaks Swahili....