I read that initial audiences thought she was mouthy and shouldnt try to act like a man.. we've come a little ways

It really is kind of neat that she wound up becoming such an essential part of star trek.

She wasn’t his wife then, but ‘other woman number one.’ Sadly.

Nichelle Nichols was ‘other woman number two’ in the early days of production of TOS. Her reason for telling Martin Luther King she wanted to quit was because she didn’t want to be ‘the other woman to the other woman.’

Roddenberry was more than willing to change gender stereotypes, but let’s not romanticize his relationships.

She recorded a bunch of phonetic sounds so that her voice could be used in future iterations of Star Trek. Google bought her voice to use as the voice for Google Assistant (ok google), but they never implemented it.

Wasn't pretty much every character outside the main cast voiced by James Doohan, Majel Barrett, or Nichelle Nichols?

Hmmm being his grandma and former lover is quite the flexibility.

Yeah. Odo was definitely on her bucket list.

I called, but no one answered the phone.

Christine Chapel in the original series was played by Majel Barret, who's other roles in later Star Trek series include voicing the ships computer, and Lwaxana Troi.