{"id":187470,"date":"2014-10-08T19:29:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T19:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/08\/queenrikki-cunextues-viergacht\/"},"modified":"2018-09-14T20:04:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T20:04:45","slug":"queenrikki-cunextues-viergacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/08\/queenrikki-cunextues-viergacht\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-187470 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/08\/queenrikki-cunextues-viergacht\/attachment\/187471\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_mkwo4489vg1s9wwkco2_250-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_mkwo4489vg1s9wwkco2_250-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_mkwo4489vg1s9wwkco2_250-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/08\/queenrikki-cunextues-viergacht\/attachment\/187472\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_mkwo4489vg1s9wwkco1_500-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_mkwo4489vg1s9wwkco1_500-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_mkwo4489vg1s9wwkco1_500-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/08\/queenrikki-cunextues-viergacht\/attachment\/187473\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_mkwo4489vg1s9wwkco3_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_mkwo4489vg1s9wwkco3_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_mkwo4489vg1s9wwkco3_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/queenrikki.tumblr.com\/post\/99432519425\/cunextues-viergacht-femmeforeverybody\" target=\"_blank\">queenrikki<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cunextues.tumblr.com\/post\/47690015532\/viergacht-femmeforeverybody-nichelle-nichols\" target=\"_blank\">cunextues<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/viergacht.tumblr.com\/post\/47525892054\/femmeforeverybody-nichelle-nichols-uhura-on\" target=\"_blank\">viergacht<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/femmeforeverybody.tumblr.com\/post\/47403242636\/nichelle-nichols-uhura-on-the-original\" target=\"_blank\">femmeforeverybody<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nichelle Nichols (Uhura on the original series):\u201dWhoopi Goldberg, she\u2019s just marvellous. I had no way of knowing that she was a Star Trek fan. When I finally met her it was her first year on the Next Generation.<\/p>\n<p>She loved the show so much and she told her agent she wants a role on Star Trek. Well agents go \u2018Big screen, little screen, no, you can\u2019t do that\u2019. Well you can\u2019t tell Whoopi \u2018You can\u2019t do that\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>And so they finally asked, and they had the same reaction at Star Trek office, specifically Gene. And she said, \u2018I want to meet him and I want him to tell me to my face. If he tells me he doesn\u2019t want me and why, I\u2019ll be fine.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Knowing Gene he had to take that challenge, and so he met with her. She said, \u2018I just wanted you to tell me why you don\u2019t want me in Star Trek.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Gene said, \u2018Well, I\u2019ll just ask you one question and I\u2019ll make my decision on that. You\u2019re a big screen star, why do you want to be on a little screen, why do you want to be in Star Trek?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>And she looked at him and she said, \u2018Well, it\u2019s all Nichelle Nichols\u2019 fault.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>That threw him, he said, \u2018What do you mean?\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>She said, \u2018Well when I was nine years old Star Trek came on,\u2019 and she said, \u2018I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, \u201cCome here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there\u2019s a black lady on television and she ain\u2019t no maid!\u201d\u2019 And she said, \u2018I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be, and I want to be on Star Trek.\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And he said, \u2018I\u2019ll write you a role.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cult\/st\/interviews\/nichols\/page4.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cult\/st\/interviews\/nichols\/page4.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Manly tears were shed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what representation is about.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No matter how many times I hear this story it still makes me tear up a little. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>queenrikki: cunextues: viergacht: femmeforeverybody: Nichelle Nichols (Uhura on the original series):\u201dWhoopi Goldberg, she\u2019s just marvellous. I had no way of knowing that she was a Star Trek fan. When I finally met her it was her first year on the Next Generation. She loved the show so much and she told her agent she wants &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/08\/queenrikki-cunextues-viergacht\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3150,1640,8458],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187474,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187470\/revisions\/187474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}