Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories

Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories
by Nichelle Nichols

Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories
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Author: Nichelle Nichols
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-08-01
ISBN: 1572970111
Number of pages: 323
Publisher: Berkley

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Book Review: Not just another Star Trek memoir
Summary: 5 Stars

Nichelle Nichols, originally named Grace, knows from an early age that she wants to perform. Originally a singer and dancer, she marries early despite parental disapproval and quickly regrets everything about that union except the son it produces. Her life on the road, as a Black performer during the 50s and early 60s, evokes an America in transition. It's an exciting time, but a dangerous one, too. Eventually she relocates her entire family (the support system she needs in order to keep raising her son) to Los Angeles, and lands her first television role in The Lieutenant - a series produced by Gene Roddenberry, who becomes her close friend. When Roddenberry casts her as a member of the bridge crew aboard the starship Enterprise, in what critics call the first intelligent science fiction series on television, she finds herself filling another role on which she didn't bargain: that of role model for an entire generation of American young people. Especially for small girls, young women, and minorities.

This is not just another Star Trek memoir, although I'll admit I picked it up with that expectation. I was pleasantly surprised to find much more than that in its pages: the autobiography of a woman living through a time of extraordinary changes, who not only survived those changes but helped to shape them. The Star Trek reminiscences, my original reason for buying this book, wound up being the least interesting part of it for me. Instead, I found myself intrigued by the actress's pre-Star Trek career and - especially - by her work for NASA, in the years after the TV series ended. To me it reads like a volume of transcribed oral history instead of a celebrity tell-all.

--Reviewed by Nina M. Osier, author of HIGH PLACES and 2005 EPPIE winner REGS

Summary of Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories

The personal story of Nichelle Nichols, a well-recognized cast member from the original Star Trek series, covers such areas as her love affair with Gene Roddenberry, career, the historic interracial kiss, and personal relationships. Reprint. AB.

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