Nichelle Nichols question

[seigezunt]

Has she ever commented on the NuTrek Spock/Uhura thing, or has anyone asked her? Just curious.

 

[Alrik]

Good question. I haven't seen anything.

 

[cooleddie74]

Zoe Saldana DID say at one point in an interview that Nichelle signed off on and loved her performance as the new Uhura and gave Zoe moral support during the filming process.

 

[Alrik]

^

And I think at another time she said something to the effect of 'My tits where NEVER that small'.

 

[DevilEyes]

Has she ever commented on the NuTrek Spock/Uhura thing, or has anyone asked her? Just curious.

Yes.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQrHIQhvWNo[/yt]

She's also praised Zoe Saldana's Uhura. From an article in California Chronicle (the link is now defunct):

She has played Uhura through six "Star Trek" movies, up to this summer's prequel. Even though she's not in this particular film, she did have her day on the set.

"While they were shooting, J.J. Abrams invited me to lunch and invited me to come to the set," she says. "I was so excited. The surprise he had going was that the young woman playing Uhura didn't know I was coming. She just gasped.

"As J.J. had planned it, she didn't have to shoot, so we sat for two hours and talked, and it was as though I had known her all her life. I was so honored. I thought I was seeing myself -- I knew I was in good hands. She just picked my brain." Nichols has seen the new "Star Trek" movie twice and says she'll probably see it two or three more times. She likes what actress Zoe Saldana has done with Uhura.

"When I see her come on, that's me and I'm living it," she says. "A little ways into the movie, I realized she had taken to heart what I said and became more reserved and tighter. I'm so proud of her. She took a role that was established and gave it life.

"Now I know who I was before I got on that ship for that first mission. It's so exciting for me and rewarding.

"J.J. and she did me honor," Nichols says.

"J.J. with his casting did all his characters honor.

It's so nice to see Spock back in the future." And does Nichols see herself in a "Star Trek" future?

"I don't know what will happen, as quiet as it's kept," she says.

 

[Starbreaker]

She's in the DVD special features as well.

 

[Shatmandu]

Has she ever commented on the NuTrek Spock/Uhura thing, or has anyone asked her? Just curious.

She said Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke with her in 1966-67 and approved it.

Joe, noted Trek historian

 

[cooleddie74]

Most famous Nichelle quote from 2009:

"Gene would have tapped Zoe too!"






Or at least that's what my imagination tells me she said.