Kira Nerys – Nana Visitor
From 1993 to 1999, Nana Visitor portrayed Kira Nerys, a former freedom fighter slash terrorist from the planet Bajor, who had worked to drive off the alien occupiers, the Cardassians, from her homeworld. She earned an OFTA Television Award for Best Actress in a Syndicated Series for her role. Since the show, she has starred in a few film and television shows.
Kira Nerys – Nana Visitor
Lieutenant Uhura – Nichelle Nichols
Nichols’ Star Trek character was one of the first African American female characters on American TV who wasn’t portrayed as a servant. This was groundbreaking in American society at the time. When she considered leaving the show, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. personally asked her to remain. After the show, she joined a special project with NASA to help recruit minority and female personnel for the space agency (that’s freaking awesome). She has also released two music albums.
Lieutenant Uhura – Nichelle Nichols
