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Last week, Nichelle Nichols<\/strong> was able to meet President Barack Obama<\/strong>, and she has shared a picture taken with the President with her Star Trek<\/em> fans.<\/p>\n “I was honored to get a chance to meet with Pres[ident] Barack Obama today in the White House,” she said via Twitter. “He was as charming and handsome as I had expected.”<\/p>\n Obama also said something to Nichols guaranteed to bring a smile to Star Trek<\/em> fans. “President Obama also confirmed for me that he was definitely a Trekker,” said Nichols. “How wonderful is that!”<\/p>\n Click on the thumbnail to see the full-sized photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week, Nichelle Nichols was able to meet President Barack Obama, and she has shared…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[2408,2404],"class_list":["post-16255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-nichols","tag-obama"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a> Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255","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=16255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16267,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255\/revisions\/16267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/553115394.jpg\" "\\"553115394\\"")
<\/a>Nichols had heard that Obama had once had a crush on her, and she asked Obama about it. “Months ago Pres[ident] Obama was quoted as saying that he’d had a crush on me when he was younger,” said Nichols. “I asked about that and & proudly confirmed it!”<\/p>\n