– A Discover Con Interview with Producer and Director Todd Thompson – By Becca Gladden, Senior Writer. Feb 12, 2021 In a scene from the new documentary “Woman in Motion,” Nichelle Nichols – known to the world as Lieutenant Uhura from the original Star Trek television series – is being interviewed for a 1989 documentary entitled Black Stars in Orbit. Referring to Nichols’ post-Star Trek work with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the interviewer says, “I’d lov