The Other Ground-breaking Star Trek Icon, with the President

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"Science is not a boy's game, it's not a girl's game. It's everyone's game."
http://boingboing.net/2014/08/04/uhura-and-obama.html

(CNN) -- Nichelle Nichols has spent her whole life going where no one has gone before, and at 81 she's still as sassy and straight-talking as you'd expect from an interstellar explorer.


"I don't have enough sense to keep my mouth shut," says the legendary Star Trek actor with a hearty laugh. "Whatever comes up, comes out."

"I can't help myself."

As the startlingly beautiful and fiercely intelligent Lt. Uhura on the hit 1960s TV series, Nichols was a revolutionary figure at a time when the only African-American women you saw on U.S. TV were usually playing servants.
Indeed, Star Trek was reportedly the only program Martin Luther King Jr would let his children stay up late to watch.

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/04/showbiz/star-trek-legend/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

[postulater]

1. Great photo, great story, great people.

[joeybee12]

2. She still looks great...knr

[Cha]

3. thanks, n2doc

[sheshe2]

4. KnR

[BlueJazz]

5. Two Pioneers

[ReRe]

6. Wowser!

I don't look that good, and I'm NO WHERE NEAR 81! Beautiful smiles.

[Major Hogwash]

7. Nice picture.

Tomorrow Sean Insanity will claim this "new hand gesture" is just yet another "signal" given to liberals by President Obama telling them it is okay to go ahead and fornicate in the road.

[3catwoman3]

8. Live Long and Proper...

...to both Ms. Nichols and President Obama.

(And Sean Hannity can go fornicate himself. Or maybe we can semd a Horta after him.)