Nyota Uhura (alternate reality)

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Lt. Nyota Uhura (2258).
Gender:	Female
Species:	Human
Affiliation:	Federation Starfleet
Rank:	Lieutenant
Occupation:	Starfleet officer
Status:	Alive (2258)
Played by:	Zoë Saldana
Cadet Nyota Uhura (2255).

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Nyota Uhura was a Human female who served as communications officer aboard the USS Enterprise under the command of Christopher Pike and, later, James T. Kirk in the 2250s. She was proficient in 83% of official Federation languages and regional dialects.

[edit] Biography

As a cadet in Starfleet Academy, Uhura specialized in xenolinguistics with tracking toward communications officer. Uhura's roommate during her stay at the Academy was an Orion cadet named Gaila.

During her time at the Academy, Uhura became romantically involved with Spock, an instructor holding the rank of commander. Commander Spock served as Cadet Uhura's instructor and judged her performance to be consistently exemplary.

While visiting the bar near the Riverside Shipyard, an inebriated Kirk met and began flirting with Uhura. Although annoyed by Kirk's advances, Uhura was surprised that Kirk knew what was involved in the study of xenolinguistics. Moments later, Kirk engaged in a bar fight with four male cadets who were displeased at the attention he was giving Uhura.

Uhura was able to detect a message within Klingon territory indicating that a fleet of 47 Klingon vessels around Rura Penthe was engaging an unknown Romulan ship. She determined all of the 47 ships were lost in the battle. She was also present at Kirk's third re-take of the Kobayashi Maru test scenario, acting as communications officer.

Spock was later in charge of starship deployment assignments for the cadets of Uhura's graduating class. Spock initially assigned Lieutenant Uhura to the USS Farragut, in spite of Uhura's stated desire to serve aboard the USS Enterprise, the new flagship, in order to avoid any appearance of favoritism. Uhura later confronted him about this choice, noting that she was more than qualified to serve aboard the Enterprise and that it was unfair to deny her an opportunity she would have gained had they not been involved. Spock relented and assigned her to the Enterprise.

Aboard the Enterprise, Captain Christopher Pike promoted Uhura to communications officer because Lieutenant Hawkins, the ship's prior communications officer, was not certain that he could distinguish transmissions in Romulan from transmissions in Vulcan. Uhura, by contrast, was fluent in all three Romulan dialects.

After Vulcan's destruction, Uhura privately comforted Spock. Before Kirk and Spock beamed to Nero's ship, Spock shared a tender goodbye kiss with Uhura, calling her by her first name, and revealing their relationship in the presence of Kirk and Montgomery Scott. Kirk, who had repeatedly attempted to learn Uhura's first name to no avail throughout the years, asked Spock if "Nyota" was her first name. Spock responded "I have no comment on the matter." (Star Trek)

Although keeping her distance, she has come to respect Kirk as captain of the Enterprise after he chose her for his senior staff.

Communications officers of the starships Enterprise
Enterprise (NX-01):	Sato
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701):	Garrison • Uhura • Farrell • Palmer • Martine • M'Ress
USS Enterprise-A:	Uhura
USS Enterprise-D:	Pendleton
ISS Enterprise (NX-01):	Sato
ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701):	Uhura
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) alternate reality:	Hawkins • Uhura

[edit] Memorable quotes

"Here I thought you were some dumb hick who only had sex with farm animals."

- Nyota Uhura, to James Kirk

"An alternate reality?"
"Precisely. Whatever our lives might have been, if the time continuum was disrupted, our destinies have changed."

- Nyota Uhura and Spock

"I sure hope you know what you're doing...Captain."
"So do I."

- Nyota Uhura and James Kirk after he takes the Captain's chair