When the first season of Star Trek was drawing to a close, actress Nichelle Nichols had enough. She felt she had endured enough racist and misogynistic behavior at the studio and wanted to go back to ...

Nichelle Nichols, one of the first Black actresses to appear in a leading role on a television series and whose Lt. Uhura shared one of the first onscreen interracial kisses on “Star Trek,” has died.

As kisses go, it is neither romantic nor explicit. There are some who argue - among them, on occasion, William Shatner - that the lips never touched. Watching it now, the scene seems chaste, almost to ...