{"id":465,"date":"2011-01-07T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/uhuras-fan-star-trek-and-christianity\/"},"modified":"2011-01-07T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T09:16:00","slug":"uhuras-fan-star-trek-and-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/uhuras-fan-star-trek-and-christianity.html","title":{"rendered":"Uhura&#8217;s Fan, Star Trek, and Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i260.photobucket.com\/albums\/ii40\/wordboy1\/Star%20Trek\/Nichelle%20Nichols%20-%20Lt%20Uhura\/NichelleNichols2x04-MirrorMirror-7.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i260.photobucket.com\/albums\/ii40\/wordboy1\/Star%20Trek\/Nichelle%20Nichols%20-%20Lt%20Uhura\/NichelleNichols2x04-MirrorMirror-7.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There was a nice brief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2011101060304\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">article in the <i>Indianapolis Star<\/i> yesterday about Nichelle Nichols<\/a>, who played Lt. Uhura on the original Star Trek series. In it she tells of how she was considering leaving the show at the end of the first season, and was persuaded not to by a very famous fan. This is a must-read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thechurchofjesuschrist.us\/2011\/01\/star-trek-was-a-christian-show-told-you-so-you-heretics\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheChurchOfJesusChrist+%28The+Church+of+Jesus+Christ%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joel Watts<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cdntheologianscholar.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/07\/is-star-trek-friendly-to-christianity\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cheese-Wearing Theology<\/a> offer contrasting responses to an article entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/features\/2011\/01\/06\/catholic-propaganda-on-the-enterprise\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Catholic Propaganda on the Enterprise<\/a>\u201d which appeared in <i>The Catholic Herald<\/i>\u00a0in the UK.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2367744508253430475?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a nice brief article in the Indianapolis Star yesterday about Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. 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