What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

science-officer-spock:

science-officer-spock:

Nichelle Nichols on meeting Martin Luther King jr. 

“I said "I’m going to leave Star Trek because (I was going to say ‘because  I have an offer to star in) …I never got that far”  

He said “You cannot - you cannot”

and I felt like that little boy Willis “What you talkin’ about dr. king”

(laughs) “But you know I didn’t say that”  

“But I was taken aback, and I didn’t say anything, I just looked at him”

He said “Don’t you know understand what this man [Gene] has achieved?”

“I just looked at him” and he saidFor the first time on television we will be seen as we should be seen every day – as intelligent, quality, beautiful people who can sing, dance, but who can also go into space, who can be lawyers, who can be teachers, who can be professors - who ARE on this day, and yet you don’t see it on television – until now…

"and he went on and I could say nothing, I just stood there, realizing every word that he was saying was the truth”

“and he said, “Gene Roddenberry has opened a door for the world to see us. If you leave that door can be closed. You see your role is not a black role, and it’s not a female role, he can fill it with anything - including an alien”

“And in that moment the world tilted for me, and I knew then, that I was something else, that the world was not the same. That’s all I could think of, what dr. king said ‘the world sees us as we should be seen’ “and i remember being angry come sunday. “Why me? Why should I have to?…

"Whatever happened come monday morning I went to Gene, and I’m not sure to this day what I was going to say. He’s sitting behind that same dang desk and he had whoever he was talking to leave because I went there first. And I said “Gene, and I told him what happened” and I told him “If you still want me to stay, I’ll stay - I have to" and he opened his drawer and said “God bless dr. martin luther king, somebody knows where I’m coming from" and he took out my resignation — that was torn into a hundred pieces  and handed me the pile, and we just stood there looking at each other, and I finally said “Thank you, Gene, and he said “Thank you, Nichelle"

“And my life’s never been the  same since, I’ve never looked back, I’ve never regretted it. Because I understood the universe had somehow put me there, and we have choices - are we gonna walk down this road? are we gonna walk the other..and it was the right road for me”

If you don’t tear up a bit and get goosebumps while reading this, I don’t know what the fuck is wrong you.

(via racebending)

  1. groovygirlie reblogged this from mehyewll-blog
  2. ra-anu reblogged this from hairpincat
  3. thgeekside reblogged this from thgeekside
  4. flamingcreature19 reblogged this from science-officer-spock
  5. chaotic-hypnotic-erotic said: Uhura had authority, capability, and agency. She should really have had at least one episode focused on her. Kirk could swoop in to solve a problem, sure, but Uhura should have had the reins of the A plot, even advising Kirk on something he’d missed, allowing him to switch tactics at the last minute or something.
  6. backintime reblogged this from fobwatchedtimelady
  7. archivistslullaby reblogged this from hairpincat
  8. toxwik reblogged this from ginger-swag-rapunzel
  9. ginger-swag-rapunzel reblogged this from science-officer-spock
  10. eiremauve reblogged this from science-officer-spock
  11. andgetthismanashield reblogged this from eidetictelekinetic
  12. quonit37 reblogged this from bartsfrogprince
  13. zerianquestionssleep reblogged this from eidetictelekinetic
  14. bartsfrogprince reblogged this from eidetictelekinetic and added:
    This is all true, but they still had the black lady answering the space phone. I would’ve loved to see her swap with...
  15. eidetictelekinetic reblogged this from starfleetsfinest
  16. starfleetsfinest reblogged this from logicandprosperity
  17. lilesbella reblogged this from science-officer-spock
  18. deweydell25 reblogged this from eternallybeautifullyblack
  19. stonface reblogged this from eternallybeautifullyblack
  20. d-and-i-curation reblogged this from science-officer-spock
  21. my-km-me reblogged this from science-officer-spock
  22. capitaine-tartine reblogged this from fuckyeahstartrektos
  23. science-officer-spock posted this