From its very beginning, Star Trek has been about moving forward with boundaries—not just in the genre of sci-fi but in real-world depiction as well.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was instrumental in ensuring that Nichelle Nichols as Lieutenant Uhura stayed on Star Trek: The Original Series.

And we learned a good deal more about Star Trek’s first woman in the Captain’s chair ... she works with the secretive organization on their special black ops missions, in order to represent ...