Mattel produced a 30th anniversary Star Trek Barbie and Ken doll set. Barbie wore a red uniform like Uhura, and Ken got the captain's uniform. But this time, Mattel went for verisimilitude.

Some of that is a matter of marketing – a lot more of us had at least one of Fisher's likenesses, courtesy of Kenner toys, than ever scored a Uhura doll. But much of it is a matter of the way ...

When I first saw the 2009 Star Trek, I was struck by the linguistic superpowers of that film's Nyota Uhura (Zoe Saldana). They were familiar to me. It wasn't simply that this ability often arises ...

Nyota Uhura has arrived on the Enterprise. Although each episode of the forthcoming Paramount+ series — Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — is designed to tell self-contained stories, one arc ...

TV icon Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura on Star Trek and used her status to promote various ways to support women and people of color, died over the weekend at the age of 89. Nichols continued ...

Nichelle Nichols, who broke new ground as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek franchise, has died. Details of her passing have not yet been made public, but she suffered a stroke in 2015.