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'The Oatmeal' Remembers 'Star Trek' Creator's Heroic Plane Crash Rescue

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'The Oatmeal' Remembers 'Star Trek' Creator's Heroic Plane Crash Rescue

Many people were moved last week by an online comic on a site called "The Oatmeal." It was illustrated and written by Matthew Inman, and it's titled "It's going to be okay."

'The Oatmeal' Remembers 'Star Trek' Creator's Heroic Plane Crash Rescue

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For MLK Day: 'Lt. Uhura' On How Rev. King Told Her To Stay On 'Star Trek'

Actress Nichelle Nichols -- "Lt. Uhura" -- at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on Nov. 3, 2010. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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For MLK Day: 'Lt. Uhura' On How Rev. King Told Her To Stay On 'Star Trek'

Nichelle Nichols, who was "Lt. Uhura" in the '60s TV classic and later movies, says she was ready to leave the show after its first season -- until Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told her to keep playing that groundbreaking character.

Nichelle Nichols on being "chosen"

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