Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols’ Emotional Plea to Family After Dementia Diagnosis

The actress that played Lieutenant Uhura in the original Star Trek, Nichelle Nichols, is in a legal battle with her family after her dementia diagnosis and supposed memory loss. She has had a friend release a video of her pleading her son, Kyle, to allow her to continue working and attending Star Trek conventions.

In May, an LA Superior Court judge granted a petition from her son to sign over control of Nichelle’s assets to four temporary conservators due to her memory loss. There is a hearing scheduled later this month to determine if the actress should be assigned a permanent guardian. The son’s lawyer, Jeffrey Marvan, told the judge he was concerned Nichelle’s manager, Gilbert Bell, had deeded one of Nichol’s two $2 million properties to himself. There was also a concern that $259,000 from attending Star Trek conventions had disappeared from the actress’s accounts.

See Laura Martina, Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols’ Emotional Plea to Family Amid Court Battle to Stop her Working After Dementia Diagnosis, Mirror, August 2, 2018.