NPR: Gene Roddenberry https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=132937527 Gene Roddenberry en Copyright 2024 NPR - For Personal Use Only Story API Shim 1.2.24 Sun, 13 Jul 2025 18:32:49 -0400 https://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/primary/npr_generic_image_300.jpg?s=200 NPR: Gene Roddenberry https://www.npr.org/tags/132937527/gene-roddenberry 'The Oatmeal' Remembers 'Star Trek' Creator's Heroic Plane Crash Rescue Many people were moved last week by an online comic on a site called "The Oatmeal." It was illustrated and written by Matthew Inman, and it's titled "It's going to be okay." Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:35:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/16/455931394/the-oatmeal-remembers-star-trek-creators-heroic-plane-crash-rescue https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/16/455931394/the-oatmeal-remembers-star-trek-creators-heroic-plane-crash-rescue

Many people were moved last week by an online comic on a site called "The Oatmeal." It was illustrated and written by Matthew Inman, and it's titled "It's going to be okay."

]]> Connor Donevan For MLK Day: 'Lt. Uhura' On How Rev. King Told Her To Stay On 'Star Trek' Nichelle Nichols, who was "Lt. Uhura" in the '60s TV classic and later movies, says she was ready to leave the show after its first season -- until Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told her to keep playing that groundbreaking character. Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:10:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/01/14/132935327/for-mlk-day-lt-uhura-on-how-rev-king-told-her-to-stay-on-star-trek https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/01/14/132935327/for-mlk-day-lt-uhura-on-how-rev-king-told-her-to-stay-on-star-trek

Nichelle Nichols, who was "Lt. Uhura" in the '60s TV classic and later movies, says she was ready to leave the show after its first season -- until Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told her to keep playing that groundbreaking character.

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