Premiering in 1966, the original "Star Trek" series launched almost its entire cast into stardom, from William Shatner to George Takei. Many of them continued with long and illustrious careers in front of the camera, but co-star Nichelle Nichols, who played the stalwart communications officer Uhura, took a different route. While she continued to return to the role of Uhura in films, spin-offs, video games, and even fan films, she mostly spent her time on non-TV work, even becoming an ambassador for NASA .

In the late '90s, though, she did some voiceover work, including a surprising role in "Spider-Man: The Animated Series" that many may have forgotten. Nichols played a character named Miriam in a pair of 1997 episodes, beginning with the Season 4 installment, "The Vampire Queen." In the M

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