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 * 009-1 Official Website

Nichelle Nichols, born Grace Nichols, is an American film and television actress born in Robbins, Illinois on December 28th, 1932. Nichelle is best known for playing the role of Communications Officer Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek television and film franchise. Nichelle's character was introduced in the season one episode of the original Star Trek television series, "The Man Trap" and has appeared in 67 out of 78 broadcast episodes. Nichols reprised the role of Uhura in the first six Star Trek feature films. She also served as a consultant to actress Zoë Saldaña, who re-imagined the character for the 2009 relaunch film simply titled Star Trek.

Career
Before turning her sights towards acting, Nichelle was an accomplished singer and dancer. Having performed with the likes of jazz pioneers Lionel Hampton and Duke Ellington, Nichelle's early stage work began with the musical play Kicks and Co. by playwright Oscar Brown (also from Illinois).

Nichelle's work on Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek however, though minimal, made her an icon of not only the science fiction genre, but for African American culture and the feminist movement as well. As Nyota Uhura, Nichelle Nichols was the first black character regularly featured in a television series that was not portrayed as a stereotype. She was also the first female military officer to serve as part of the bridge crew of a ship. In one episode of the series, Nichelle and co-star William Shatner gained notoriety and more than just a little controversey by presenting the TV-viewing audience with the first televized interracial kiss. Nichelle's work on Star Trek earned the attention of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., who encouraged her to remain on the series even after Nichols had considered quitting the show. Nichelle's character also inspired a young Caryn Elaine Johnson who, under her stage name Whoopi Goldberg, would earn herself a place in the Star Trek franchise as well playing the role of Guinan, a recurring guest star featured on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Along with the rest of the cast from the series, Nichelle Nichols also provided the voice for her character on the 1973-1974 Star Trek: The Animated Series. She was credited in all twenty-two episodes of the show and also provided the voice for several other characters including Doctor Sarah April, Karla Five, Devna, Kali, Magen, Anne Nored and an alien entity.

As a cultural icon, Nichelle Nichols has used her popularity to advocate career roles for other women and African Americans. Following the discontinuation of the first Star Trek series, Nichelle volunteered her time in a special project with NASA to recruit minority and female personnel for the space agency, which proved to be a success. Those recruited include Doctor Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, and United States Air Force Colonel Guion Bluford, the first African-American astronaut, as well as Doctor Judith Resnik and Doctor Ronald McNair, who both flew successful missions during the Space Shuttle program before their deaths in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28th, 1986. In 1994, Nichelle Nichols published her memories entitled Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories. The first printing was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons and released in October, 1994. It was released again in 1995 by Boulevard Books and Boxtree. In the year 2000, Nichelle Nichols voiced a character called the Chief in the "The Yukari Imprint" episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.

Nichelle was one of several veteran sci-fi talents to appear on the popular TV series Heroes. She played a character named Nana Dawson and appeared in five episodes of season two.

Television

 * Nichelle Nichols at Wikipedia
 * Nichelle Nichols at Memory Alpha
 * Nichelle Nichols at NNDB
 * Nichelle Nichols at Uhura.com
 * Nichelle Nichols at the Internet Speculative Fiction DB
 * Nichelle Nichols at Uhura.com
 * Nichelle Nichols at the Internet Speculative Fiction DB


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 * Vanessa Ibert - 009-3; Blonde hair
 * Mia Connery - 009-7; Brit
 * Berta Kastner - 009-4; black girl

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
A newscaster for KRKR-TV broadcasts a report about strange sightings of a large, spherical satellite that has been spotted all over the globe. By following its course, he predicts that it will appear next somewhere in the California desert.
 * Newscaster
 * Nancy drives out; swerves; sphere; giant hand; runs off screaming to police station
 * Tony's bar and grill; harry conspires with honey to get nancy sent to nut house; 50 million; honey suggests killing her. begin making out. deputy charlie comes in and tells charlie that nancy is at the police station. slips him money to say he couldn't find him.
 * Sheriff and deputy take nancy out to her car; no sign of giant or satellite; nancy thinks that the giant wanted her diamond necklace; the Star of India
 * Comes home and gets drink. harry tells jess the butler to leave the room. nancy knows that harry was at Tony's Bar and Grill with Honey. starts crying; yelling; but confesses that she is in love with him and just wants him to stay faithful. repeats her story and tells harry that she thought the giant was after her diamond. harry humors her and takes her up to bed. removes diamond and pockets it as she drifts off.
 * Harry goes to Tony's. Honey dancing with Charlie. she is frustrated with waiting for their plans to come together. harry takes her aside. tells her that he is calling doctor cushing to examine her and likely have her committed. shows her the star of india and tells her that if she plays her cards right, it'll be hers.
 * Doctor cushing examines her the next morning. suffering from mental exhaustion. gives jess instructions on her meds. tells harry that nancy needs lots of rest. he'll check by in the morning. after he leaves, nancy comes downstairs, seemingly healthy and sober. she gives him more crap and knows that he spent the night with honey. gives her the diamond back.
 * Nancy turns on TV and hears news reports about her claims of a 30 foot giant. she throws glass at TV set.
 * Nancy insists on going back out to the site to prove she's not crazy. harry drives her out. drive all day and night; find nothing. turn around to head back home when they see it. nancy gets out of car and runs to satellite. touches it. giant leans out to grab her. harry shoots at it, but it does nothing. leaves her and drives off.
 * harry returns home; rushes begins collecting stuff; jess wants to know where allison is; they fight. harry runs off. he goes to hotel to get HOney. quickly packs their things. go to leave, but charlie is at the door. tells him that jess called the station. sheriff dubbitt wants to see him.
 * At the station, charlie fields a call from the telephone operator that nancy archer has been found on top of the pool house.
 * Doctor cushing meets sheriff at the archer house. harry arrives. cushing warns him that there is evidence of some kind of radiation and that she may be contaminated. sheriff questions him about what happened last night.
 * Later, harry sabotages the dosage on nancy's meds. when he goes to administer it, he turns on the light and sees that nancy is huge.
 * Next day they order 40 lenghts of chain, surpluss of meds and elephant syringe. Doctor Heinrich Von Loeb is called in to consult with Cushing, but he has no idea what to make of her condition.
 * Sheriff and deputy scope around the pool house to see how nancy got up there. they find a giant footprint. take jess with them in their car and follow the footprints. see satelite in the middle of hte desert. they find Jess's gun which harry had stolen during their fight. go into ship. glass globes with diamonds. one of them is nancy's Star of India. they see the giant and run back to the car. the giant leaves the ship and marches across the desert. sheriff fires gun but it does nothing. they run. throws a stick of dynamite, but his only staggers it. the giant hefts up their car and tosses it end over end.
 * At the house, nancy begins shouting for harry. the doctors run upstairs and try to calm her down, but she's in hysterics. cushing tells the nurse to call teh sheriff.
 * Nancy breaks loose; busts through roof; screaming for harry. STalks off; shakes power transformer;
 * Harry and HOney at Tony's. drunk; lights start flickering.
 * Stalks over to hotel. Scares young couple necking in car. looks in hotel window; doesn't see harry. starts shaking tony's. reaches hand through door. harry grabs charlie's gun and begins shooting. tears away at roof. timbers fall and crush honey. grabs harry walks towards power lines. sheriff fires shotgun several times. hits transformer. explosion kills them both. Cushing says, "She finally got Harry all to herself".

Star Wars

 * Star Wars: Dark Times #3 at Wookieepedia
 * Star Wars: Dark Times #3 at Comic Vine
 * Star Wars: Dark Times #3 at Comicbookdb.com
 * Star Wars: Dark Times #3 at the Dark Horse Database
 * Star Wars: Dark Times #3 at the Grand Comics Database