{"id":11712,"date":"2011-04-05T12:14:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T19:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11712"},"modified":"2011-04-05T12:15:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T19:15:27","slug":"nichols-on-blogtalkradio-for-japan-earthquake-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/04\/nichols-on-blogtalkradio-for-japan-earthquake-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Nichols on Blogtalkradio For Japan Earthquake Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nichelle Nichols<\/strong> was the guest on Blogtalkradio yesterday in a forty-five minute interview which fans can hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/jimthinklikeablackbelt\/2011\/04\/04\/special-nichelle-nichols-all-hailing-frequencies-open-for-earthquake-relief-in-japan\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The actress who played Lieutenant Uhura appeared on the show in hopes of obtaining support for the victims of the Japanese earthquake relief efforts.  &#8220;It&#8217;s only been three or four weeks,&#8221; she said, &#8220;and with the nature of communication and television and news service, at least they are still involved with reporting but much of it is very negative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NNicholsSmall1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11717\" title=\"NNicholsSmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/NNicholsSmall1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I saw these incredible people with such dignity in the face of such enormous catastrophe,&#8221; she said of watching the early coverage of the disaster. &#8220;Not that they were complaisant or anything about it. &#8230; In their pain, there was such beauty in their dignity. I saw the same thing on a different level in Haiti.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nichols had given anonymously to help after the recent Haitian earthquake, but decided after seeing the double tragedy of a powerful earthquake followed by a tsunami to make her support public in hopes of getting more people to assist the Japanese victims.<\/p>\n<p>On Nichols&#8217;s <em>Facebook<\/em> page, located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Nichelle-Nichols-Communications-Page\/151863034849179\">here<\/a>, she has made the following offer: &#8220;The first 1,000 people that donate $50 or more to any organization listed on <a href=\"http:\/\/usaid.gov\/ \">USAid<\/a>, I will sign &amp; mail an autographed photo to you! I do this in honor of my dear friend <strong>George Takei<\/strong> and his family. Just email a copy of your donation receipt dated 3\/18 or later to me @nnsharethetrek@gmail.com and I will mail an autographed photo to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to speaking about the earthquake relief effort, Nichols shared memories about her <em>Star Trek<\/em> days and she updated fans about her new one-woman musical show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nichelle Nichols was the guest on Blogtalkradio yesterday in a forty-five minute interview which fans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[3578,2408],"class_list":["post-11712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-blogtalkradio","tag-nichols"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11712"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11719,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions\/11719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}