Neil deGrasse Tyson talks with Nichelle Nichols: http://www.startalkradio.net/show/a-conversation-with-nichelle-nichols/
Neil deGrasse Tyson talks with Nichelle Nichols....
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No, but Tyson does ask her about it and it seems to be consistent with what she has said before. She also talks about Whoppi Goldberg getting onto TNG.Does she go on about how Dr. King came to the set, begged her to stay and then started writing her dialogue?
The insistence some people have over calling her out as a liar about the MLK story or accusing her of embellishing it over the years is one of the more unseemly things about TrekBBS. I believe it happened, that it was an important even in her life, and one that may have grown in importance to her as she has aged. So if she has embellished the story a bit in the telling and retelling, I don't fault her one bit. Memory is inexact, esp. when infused with emotion. I sure loved hearing my Grandparents' stories, told and retold, and never thought to call them out on it when they added a new detail. Heck, I find myself at the age of 50 repeatedly retelling stories that have great meaning to me. I don't think I embellish them, but maybe I am and don't even realize it. Human memory is not like that of a computer.
I don't think it's her being a liar over it. It's the retelling of it to where it's pretty much everywhere now, it's become kind of something that she's expected to say anytime she gives an interview (kind of expecting Shatner to talk about Nimoy's bike).
It's an amazing story, but becomes a little stale after it's been heard the first 1,000 times.
It's an amazing story, but becomes a little stale after it's been heard the first 1,000 times.
I agree about stories being told to the point of being stale, and The bike story is the quintessential example. However there are multiple threads on this board that do call out Ms Nichols as I described, and that is how I took the derisive comment up thread. I would not equate a practical joke story with mtg MLK however. And even if I were to, as in the case of my grandparents who are now sadly gone, I will regret when the day comes that The surviving cast won't be around to tell their well worn tales.