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TIL Nichelle Nichols planned to leave the role of Uhura after the first season of ‘Star Trek’ but Martin Luther King Jr. persuaded her to stay.
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This is alluded to (in universe) in the SNW episode “Children of the Comet”, where Cadet Uhura states >!she doesn’t see herself staying in StarcFleet!<
Well, working for Gene Roddenberry probably sucked terribly, especially for a woman.