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"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | ||
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Just saw this, and was about to post it as well. So many of them gone. RIP, Nichelle.  I hate offended people. They come in two flavours - huffy and whiny - and it's hard to know which is worst. The huffy ones are self-important, narcissistic authoritarians in love with the sound of their own booming disapproval, while the whiny, sparrowlike ones are so annoying and sickly and ill-equipped for life on Earth you just want to smack them round the head until they stop crying and grow up. - Charlie Brooker | |||
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Wow, that's sad. She was a class act. Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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So sad. Goodbye, Nyota Uhura. And of course you guys know what she did on-screen that had never been done before in television history. | |||
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First mixed-race kiss. "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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Right the first time. | |||
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always with a hat or sunscreen |
William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk alongside Nichols on Star Trek, tweeted: “I am so sorry to hear about the passing of Nichelle. She was a beautiful woman & played an admirable character that did so much for redefining social issues both here in the US & throughout the world. I will certainly miss her. Sending my love and condolences to her family.” https://tvline.com/2022/07/31/...hatner-george-takei/ Also loved her recounting meeting Martin Luther King who gave her advice when she was seriously considering leaving Star Trek. Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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Hailing frequencies are closed. God bless, sweet soul ______________________________________________ Life is short. It’s shorter with the wrong gun… | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
She was such an integral part of Star Trek and that doesn’t leave too much of TOS cast left  One of my favorite scenes with her: “We am thy freighter Ursva” | |||
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R.I.P. Nyota Hailing frequencies are closed. Another great one gone but not forgotten. James We the unappreciated must do the unimaginable and see the unthinkable to protect the ungrateful | |||
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Ironically, the episode "Plato's Stepchildren" played here on Friday night, the 29th. Supposedly her favorite episode of the series. It was the first time I ever saw it and thought it was a very good episode. | |||
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One of the first, one of the best. She will be missed. ___________________________________________ Life Member NRA & Washington Arms Collectors Mistake not my current state of joshing gentle peevishness for the awesome and terrible majesty of the towering seas of ire that are themselves the milquetoast shallows fringing my vast oceans of wrath. Velocitas Incursio Vis - Gandhi | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
She was a woman of grace. I am sorry she is gone. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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sad news she went where others had never gone - what a trailblazer for TV given the time period | |||
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I got to see her at a Trek convention and she showed her great love to fans with an impromptu performance of her song from Star Trek V. One of the fans provided her the words they had brought hopping she might sing it, which she did, quite beautifully. Rest in peace Ms. Nichols. Mike __________________________ "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy." - Benjamin Franklin | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven! |
Awwwwwww Someone must have been a huge Trek nerd, was on my way in to work and passed a large electronic billboard on the highway and it had this: BOLDY GONE (in classic Star Trek font) This picture:  And this caption: Remembering Nichelle Nichols 1932-2022 | |||
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I have a DVD set of the older Trek movies. An image of her graces the jacket for Star Trek V; believe that will be the one I watch tonight. I'll listen out for the song that HKg3 mentioned and lift my glass to her. | |||
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A true icon Time to explore the universe now for real … "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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I read this with great sadness with a lump in my throat and fuzzy monitor. Yes...hailing frequency closed. She was the first to go where "no one" had gone before... "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Her whole public life was defined by that role. She definitely seemed to be a class act. Not much left of the original bridge crew. Walter Koenig and George Takei are both 85. And William Shatner is 91. | |||
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