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RIP and Thank You, Lieutenant Uhura
I wasn’t allowed to stay up to watch Star Trek (the original series) during its first run (though I dearly wanted to) but watched it faithfully in syndication. When my mother would ask me to turn off the TV, I would say, “But I haven’t seen this one all the way through!” (Usually lying.)
As the members of the original cast pass away, it saddens me. This is very much true as I learned today of the death of Nichelle Nichols. We talked recently at the Movie Fight Club of childhood crushes and she was one of mine.
Star Trek was a politically liberal show for its time. But it was classically liberal, which meant back then that it called for racial equality and fair play. It could be hamfisted in this at times (such as the episode “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield”), but it was mostly all for the good.
One of the things that has been keeping me sane in (solitary) lockdown is movie nights with my friends. With two close guy friends from high school, in particular, I have a weekly date for a movie at 8 p.m. EST (1 a.m. GMT) and this week it was my turn to pick the film. I had given the selection a fair bit of thought ahead of time, and presented them with a few options that I thought would be fun to watch; we settled on 
Discovering Discovery
Today is the seventh of September, in other words, 7 of 9. It seems like a good time to ponder the actress who played the character of 7 of 9 on Star Trek: Voyager and her role in American History. Because, you see, Jeri Ryan had the most profound impact on American politics as an actor since John Wilkes Booth. Without her, Barack Obama would not have been president.
