startrekdescribed: talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla: dracophile:captaincrusher:I’m making a general
startrekdescribed: talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla: dracophile: captaincrusher: I’m making a general call out to all you creators of beautiful fanart out there: Give me Nichelle Nichols as Spock. Please. Here’s a quick version from me. I tried to give her a very Vulcan-like hair do, because the Vulcan girls get real creative with their hair, but also keep it military professional…Though when you look at Yeoman Rand’s hair… YAS [Image description: various screencaps of Uhura from Star Trek: The Original Series, an interview with Nichelle Nichols, and fanart.The first three images are screencaps from the mirror mirror universe episode. Uhura is at her communications station and using a padd, one screencap she is within the turbolife. The next seven images are from an interview with Nichelle, she is happy and is talking about her audition. Subtitles written over all screencaps say, “Later when I got the part, there was no part to read. So I read the part of Mr. Spock. I said, “Well, could Spock be a woman?” And they said, “Yeah, but Leonard Nimoy wouldn’t like it.” And they explained to me what kind of character he was. And I brought those given curcimstance to the reading. And when I finished, there was silence. And finally, someone said, “Why don’t we have Penny call downstairs, um, and see if Leonard Nimoy has signed his contract yet?” Ha ha.“The next image is digitsl fanart of Uhura as a Vulcan. She’s wearing science blue, has Vulcan ears, and has her hair tied back in a plaited bun type of way./end image description] -- source link