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"Well, when I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be."

— Whoopi Goldberg

(William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Star Trek)

Without Sulu and Chekhov, they'd all be about the same age.