# Not exactly typecast as Uhura....

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 7, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-exactly-typecast-as-uhura/577489 "2011-04-07T03:38:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-exactly-typecast-as-uhura/577489/1 "2011-04-07T03:38:21Z")

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I’d never heard of the movie _Truck Turner_ (no surprise, I suppose, me being a white boy and all). But I found these clips interesting:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/i9Pmgp_0HT4/hqdefault.jpg "Female Pimpin, Nichelle Nichols in "Truck Turner"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Pmgp_0HT4)

I had no idea that Nichelle Nichols ever played such a character. Pretty cool. And see the dialogue cleverly reused here:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Max8UvHgDds/hqdefault.jpg "Nichelle Nichols as Uhura in "Trek Turner"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Max8UvHgDds)

Wow! She could’ve gotten through Starfleet Academy in _two_ years with that kind of attitude. Sheeeeit.

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**Author:** ![\_mostly\_Harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9d8465/32.png) [@\_mostly\_Harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_mostly_Harmless)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-exactly-typecast-as-uhura/577489/2 "2011-04-07T04:43:01Z")

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DAAaaaaaammmn!!

Nichelle Nichols was BAD ASS!

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-exactly-typecast-as-uhura/577489/3 "2011-04-07T19:28:27Z")

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Submitted for your approval

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9CJdFppsHeo/hqdefault.jpg "Uhura pwns Mirror!Sulu") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CJdFppsHeo)