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Star Trek Online Players Hold In-Game Vigil For The Late Nichelle Nichols, Who Passed Away On Sunday
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Star Trek Online Players Hold In-Game Vigil For The Late Nichelle Nichols, Who Passed Away On Sunday | MMORPG.com
The Star Trek community is in mourning as one of the original cast members and trailblazer for women and people of color in entertainment, Nichelle Nichols, passed away on Sunday at the age of 89. Star Trek Online's players took to the game to mourn this loss, holding a vigil for Nichols.
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Jokes aside.. Very sorry to hear of their passing.
RIP
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My parents wouldn't have let me watch it anymore if they knew at the time, but fortunately my sister and I were watching it upstairs out of their view.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
It caused quite a stir at the time. Some stations wouldn't even broadcast it.
By and large we live in a world largely unlike that presented in ToS. There is no global harmony or economic and social utopia. War remains. Prejudice lingers. Suffering flourishes. In many ways we're closer to the Mirror universe.
There has been some improvement but there in long, long way to go before we could say the real world and that shown in ToS are by and large similar.
It would be nice though. Maybe someday the world will collectively give it a go.
Dedicated fans of speculative fiction are often weird, nerdy people. I'm happy for it in general, and particularly so in this instance. She had a ground breaking role for the time and performed admirably in it. We are diminished by her absence.
Will we someday be diminished by yours? That's entirely up to you, of course. I wish you well should you so strive.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
What ToS concentrated on was that everybody could live together, I am not sure they pushed the idea of global and economic utopia that much. Quite happy if you tell me I am wrong, I think those ideas where implied but hardly ever stated.
Loved Uhura in the original and Zoe Saldana is a worthy successor in the rebooted alternate universe version.
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