I've always admired Uhura as a character-- Nichelle Nichols was one of my heroes growing up. Her character was the reason why I was allowed to watch "that space show" by my Grandmother. I can absolutely see why Dr. King insisted that she stick with it, so that Roddenberry's future would feature intelligent, beautiful, strong people of color on the ( Read more... )

Star Trek uniforms have always been easy.

I may find people interested in doing the new 'Trek thing next year, at least for one evening. Because no matter how awesome the costume is-- it's always better to go in a huge mob of similarly related costuming, and "easy" means "more people will probably do it."

Then again: still want to be a 'Cardie

I have been told that at least one of the costumes I wear to the next D*C should be Chiana from Farscape, to go with the D'argo, Aeryn, and... what's his name that the rest of the group is doing. Apparently, I look enough like Chiana when in white makeup and such that I could pull it off (see: Decent into Hell party). But obviously from the way I ( Read more... )

Hrm. Maybe I'll go to Dragon*Con as Tia Dalma (the creepy Fate Witch in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest). Then I wouldn't have to worry too much about putting together something pretty... I could just go in rags and tags and have a jolly old time.