Nichelle Nichols Has Died

Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Lt Uhura, died yesterday aged 89. Nichelle was one of only four surviving main cast members of the original series, one of the others of course being William Shatner, with whom she famously shared one of American television's first interracial kisses in 1967. She was also apparently a comics fan; in the early eighties, she had a letter printed in an issue of The Micronauts (unforgivably, the editor who responded to the letter clearly had no idea who she was).

I saw that earlier. I find it heartbreaking. I KNOW the show was on a long time ago, but it seems so fresh, to me.
She will be missed.

tony ingram wrote:Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Lt Uhura, died yesterday aged 89. Nichelle was one of only four surviving main cast members of the original series, one of the others of course being William Shatner, with whom she famously shared one of American television's first interracial kisses in 1967.

What a sad news, she was such a good actress and really an American Icon, this news made headlines also on generalist radio and televisions also here.

tony ingram wrote: She was also apparently a comics fan; in the early eighties, she had a letter printed in an issue of The Micronauts (unforgivably, the editor who responded to the letter clearly had no idea who she was).

Now Tony, you need to tell us in which issue of the Micronauts her letter was printed and who was the Super Ignorant Marvel editor...    

Barry_Allen wrote:

tony ingram wrote:Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Lt Uhura, died yesterday aged 89. Nichelle was one of only four surviving main cast members of the original series, one of the others of course being William Shatner, with whom she famously shared one of American television's first interracial kisses in 1967.

What a sad news, she was such a good actress and really an American Icon, this news made headlines also on generalist radio and televisions also here.

tony ingram wrote: She was also apparently a comics fan; in the early eighties, she had a letter printed in an issue of The Micronauts (unforgivably, the editor who responded to the letter clearly had no idea who she was).

Now Tony, you need to tell us in which issue of the Micronauts her letter was printed and who was the Super Ignorant Marvel editor...    

I shall have to look through my collection. It was somewhere in the first couple of years...

Barry_Allen wrote:Now Tony, you need to tell us in which issue of the Micronauts her letter was printed and who was the Super Ignorant Marvel editor...    

She had a letter in Micronauts #52, telling them not to resurrect Biotron. Ralph Macchio was editor, and Bob Harras was his assistant.

That's the one! A bit later than I thought...