In 2017, IDW was released star trek: deviation, The one-shot explored what would have happened if the Romulans instead of the Vulcans had made first contact with Earth. For its next alt-history outing, deviation line focusing on origin enterpriseNyota Uhura, commerce officer and translator.
Written by Stephanie Williams (nubia and amazon) and created by Greg Maldonado and Anthony Fowler Jr. threads of destiny One-shot puts a different spin original series Episode “The City on the Edge of Forever.” Instead of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy using the Guardian of Forever to travel through time, it’s Uhura, and it places her in 1963 during the Civil Rights Movement. While searching for a way home, she decides to “join all the people fighting for equality and justice and reconnect with why her job as a communications officer is perhaps the most important job of all.”
Why the Civil Rights Movement, other than the immediately obvious reason? This brings things full circle with Uhura and her first actor, the late Nichelle Nichols, who initially planned to leave the original star trek After one season. It was a discussion with Martin Luther King, Jr. that changed his mind; As a fan of the show, he called her “our image of where we’re going. You’re 300 years from now, and that means we’re right there and it happens right now. Keep doing what you’re doing, you’re our inspiration.” And when she told him of her plans to leave, he told her, “You don’t have a black role. You have an equal role.”
In sticking around, Nichols’ Uhura inspired black women like Whoopi Goldberg and astronaut Mae Jemison, who eventually guest starred on star trekThe character is currently played by Celia Rose Gooding, strange new world series, and previously on film by Zoe Saldana in the reboot trilogy.
Star Trek Divergence: Threads of Fate will be released on February 25, 2026, and you can check out its two covers, one of which features Nichols as Uhura.
[via IGN]
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