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Perhaps the most significant work of Nichelle Nichols can be measured in how kids of my generation never knew to question her place onboard the Enterprise as Communications Officer Nyota Uhura. She was there, and it made sense, so who were we to examine it? When I saw Lieutenant Uhura and Captain Kirk make out in the episode Plato’s Stepchildren, I thought it was just another dramatic scene in an excellent narrative arc. I didn’t learn until much later – when I was in college – that that was the first interracial kiss in the history of television in the United States. Because of Nichelle Nichols, I never even thought it was a big deal that she – a black woman – was an officer in Star Fleet.
It just made sense.
Though, of course, her portrayal of Uhura was a massive cultural shift in our benighted land.
By casting Nichelle Nichols as Lieutenant Uhura, Gene Roddenberry – and Nichols herself – helped establish the template of the better, more just world they were contemplating through the creation of Star Fleet. For my peers in Generation X, they slipped the mightily subversive concept of race and gender equality into our thinking before anyone else could fill our brains with the pervasive and contrary garbage of the five preceding centuries.
It didn’t fix everything, of course, and didn’t impact everyone the same way. Still, as with all butterfly effects, if you remove Nichelle Nichols from the Desilu Production facilities in 1966-1969 – and therefore from the deck of the USS Enterprise from 2266-2269 – then there’s a mighty strong argument that our world in 2022 is an even less enlightened place than it has become.
So, beautiful queen, as you pass from this world and onward to the Final Frontier, I’d like to say thank you and promise that, at least with Gen-X science-fiction geeks like me, the mission most certainly continues.
Scotty, one most righteous sister and guide to beam up.
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“Yesterday I witnessed something that took my breath away. I heard a sound at the window of the cottage. When I looked, a cedar waxwing had hit the window and fallen to the deck. It’s mate stood beside it. It was clear that the fallen bird was dead. I turned away for a moment and when I looked again, it’s mate had hopped over. It lay down beside its partner, their heads touching. It closed its eyes and passed over to Spirit with its mate.
The sadness and beauty of the moment was such a privilege to witness. If anyone has ever doubted that animals feel emotion and love, this moment was absolute proof of both. Nature truly has much to teach us.”
In case you missed this, it might make you smile. One of the images released today from the JWST is of Stephan’s Quintet an apparent cluster of five galaxies, though only four are interacting. The galaxy on the left is actually about 250 million lightyears closer to earth than the other four.
Anyway, what’s just charming about this image, to me, is that Stephan’s Quintet is the home of the angels, including Clarence, in Frank Capra’s perfect movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
If you’ve watched it as many times as I have, you’ll remember them blinking back and forth during these lines:
Senior Angel : A man down on Earth needs our help.
Clarence : Splendid. Is he sick?
Senior Angel : No, worse. He’s discouraged.Things turned out okay for George Bailey with a little help from his friends, as they did for the James Webb Space Telescope on its long journey to Lagrange 2, a million miles away from Earth.
Who knows? Maybe we’ll be okay in the end, too.