“Now we’re in, and I think the iconic short Caesar cut has been a thing for Black men for a long time, but we are slowly but surely as a community getting closer and closer to widening the ideals of what Black femininity looks like,” she adds. Meanwhile, Saldana’s version adopted the high ponytail with long extensions down the back in Abrams’ first Star Trek film, which was released in 2009. In the ‘60s, Nichols’ stuck to the classic bouffant look, in which hair is puffed out and framed around the face. Star Trek: Picard: Next Generation's LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn and Gates McFadden Join Final Season Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Who Is Spock Smooching in the New Trailer? “ was incredible with Nichelle’s Uhura and Zoe’s Uhura was that they had the epitome of what Black femininity was at the time.”
“I think the first thing that people were really keeping an eye out for was that I chopped off all her hair, and I love it,” Gooding tells TVLine.