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Published Apr 5, 2021

Sonequa Martin-Green On Meeting Nichelle Nichols

Sonequa Martin-Green recounts how nervous she was meeting Star Trek icon Nichelle Nichols.


Star Trek: Discovery star Sonequa Martin-Green (Michael Burnham) recounts how nervous she was first meeting Star Trek icon Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) and extols the ways in which Nichols blazed a trail for women and people of color in Star Trek, sci-fi, and television at large.


Star Trek: Discovery currently streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. Internationally, the series is available on Paramount+ in Australia, Latin America and the Nordics, and on Pluto TV in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom on the Pluto TV Sci-Fi channel. In Canada, it airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave. Star Trek: Discovery is distributed by Paramount Global Distribution Group.