Long before becoming a part of the Star Trek universe himself, LeVar Burton watched the original series, impressed to see an African-American character in Nichelle Nicholss Uhura: I was a huge Star Trek fan when I was a kid. I loved science fiction literature and it was rare for me to see heroes in the pages of those novels who looked like me. Gene Roddenberrys vision of the future said to me, you— you little black kid from Sacramento, California, reading science fiction books— when the ...
