Celia Rose Gooding as Nyota Uhura and Christina Chong as La'an Noonien-Singh are particular standouts.

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"Children of the Comet" reveals that Uhura speaks 37 languages, and it's her skills with linguistics that save the day.

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Mariner also met her hero, Ensign Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), and that set up Beckett facing the loss of her best friend from Starfleet Academy, Ensign Sito Jaxa (Shannon Fill) in season 4's finale.

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Not to mention that Nichelle used her notoriety as Uhura to help recruit people to NASA.

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Uhura suffers from horrific waking nightmare visions that actually lead her to strike James, her superior officer.

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Up on the bridge, the crew hovers while the inspectors nitpick all the ways they've customized the Enterprise when Uhura () receives a distress signal from La'an who appears to be calling out from a world on the edge of Klingon space.

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While most of this episode revolves around other characters, Uhura proves her versatility after Chief Engineer Lt. Hemmer (Bruce Horak) is injured.

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