I did so as well. She was such a role model for black women that MLK himself had to convince her not to leave the show after her first year. And then there's this [0]:

> I met Whoopi Goldberg when Gene was doing The Next Generation and she had told me when Star Trek came on she was nine years old and she said she turned the TV on and saw me and ran through the house screaming: Come quick, come quick. Theres a black lady on TV and she ain't no maid.

On top of that, while on Star Trek, she was one half of the first and second interracial kisses involving a black person on US television, which was a big deal at the time [1].

She played a black person in an important leadership role on a very popular series. As MLK said to her: "We don't need you on the - to march. You are marching. You are reflecting what we are fighting for." [0] She'll be missed.

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[0]: https://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942461/Star-Treks-Uhura-Re...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_interracial_kiss_on_tele...