![]() ![]() We even had outlined exactly where Uhura had grown up, who her parents were, and why she had been chosen over other candidates for the Enterprise’s five-year mission. According to her memoir, 'Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories,' Nichols and future 'Star Trek' creator Gene Roddenberry first met in 1963 on the set of his previous. Spock, whom she admired for his daring, his intelligence, his stoicism, and especially his logic. As head of Communications, she commanded a corps of largely unseen communications technicians, linguists, and other specialists who worked in the bowels of the Enterprise, in the “comm-center.” A linguistics scholar and a top graduate of Starfleet Academy, she was a protégée of Mr. And her name, Uhura, is derived from Uhuru, which is Swahili for “freedom.” According to the “biography” Gene and I developed for my character, Uhura was far more than an intergalactic telephone operator. Gene and I agreed that she would be a citizen of the United States of Africa. Many times through the years I’ve referred to Uhura as my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter of the twenty-third century. ![]() It was only after I’d been brought on board, and Gene and I conceived and created her, that Uhura was born. Interestingly, though he’d said many times before that there might be something in this for me, that day I won a part that had yet to be created. ![]() ![]() “As I soon learned, this was the dream to which Gene had alluded so often in the past. ![]()
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