Woman in Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek and the Remaking of NASA, a new feature-length documentary exclusive to Paramount+, has received its first trailer at today’s virtual First Contact Day celebration. The documentary explores howStar TrekactressNichelle Nicholswas critical in NASA’s decision to begin recruiting women and people of color in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Directed byTodd Thompson,Woman in Motionshows the incredible story of how in 1977, Nichols began a campaign to diversity NASA. Nichols founded Women In Motion, Inc., which recruited more than 8,000 African American, Asian and Latin women and men. In the trailer for Woman in Motion, interview subjectDr. Kerry Mark Joels, a former space educator for NASA’s Ames Research Center, says that “she changed the space program forever.”
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In addition to interviews with Nichols,Woman in Motionalso includes interviews withNeil deGrasse Tyson,Pharrell Williams,George Takei,Rod Roddenberry,Vivica A. Fox,Al Sharpton,Martin Luther King III, amongst many others.
Nichols played Nyota Uhura in the originalStar Trekseries and in the first sixStar Trekfilms. With her work in variousStar Trekfilms and the original series, Nichols would play Uhura for over 25 years. In addition to her work onStar Trek, Nichols has also appeared on shows likeFuturama,The Simpsons, andThe Young and the Restless.
While Nichols has certainly had an impressive career as an actress in one of the most iconic science fiction series of all-time, her remarkable work with NASA is one that many fans might not know about. Thankfully,Woman in Motionlooks to help enlighten audiences on Nichols’ outstanding work in helping diversify the space agency.
Woman in Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek and the Remaking of NASAmakes its Paramount+ debut on June 3. Watch the trailer below:
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