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i love that Roddenberry just created this character for his wife, so she could have the perfect role for her amazing personality.. so of course she's an awesome character.. i mean that's REAL love baby..
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.