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Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura on 'Star Trek,' dies at 89

Actress and singer Nichelle Nichols, best known as Star Trek's communications officer Lieutenant Uhura

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died Saturday night in Silver City, New Mexico. She was 89 years old.

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it has for so many years," her son Kyle Johnson wrote on the website Uhura.com.

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Nichols was one of the first Black women featured in a major television series, and her role as Lt. Nyota Uhura

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it has for so many years," her son Kyle Johnson wrote on the website Uhura.com.

Here I was projecting in the 23rd century what should have been quite simple," Nichols told NPR in 2011.

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In 1968, Nichols made headlines when Uhura shared an intimate kiss with Captain James T. Kirk (played by William Shatner) in an episode called "Plato's Stepchildren."

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Their interracial kiss on the lips was revolutionary, one of the first such moments on TV.

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She got her first break in the 1961 musical Kicks and Co., a thinly veiled satire of Playboy magazine.

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He also posted a photo of his longtime friend, both of them flashing the Vulcan greeting, and these words: "We lived long and prospered together."

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