All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.

Her most famous role is that of communications officer Lieutenant Uhura aboard the USS Enterprise in the popular Star Trek television series as well as the succeeding motion pictures where her character was eventually promoted in Starfleet to the rank of commander. S society at the time and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Robert A.

She sang with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton before turning to acting. Her Star Trek character was groundbreaking in U. personally praised her work on the show and asked her to remain when Nichelle Nichols was considering leaving the series.