Nichelle Nichols has been played on NTS in shows including The Windmills of Your Mind w/ Taylor Rowley, featured first on 22 September 2022. Songs played include Beyond Antares and Starry-Eyed.

Actress best known as Star Trek's Lieutenant Uhura. She sang with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton before turning to acting. She studied in Chicago as well as New York and Los Angeles. During her time in New York, Nichols appeared at the famous "Blue Angel" and Playboy Clubs, as a singer. She also appeared in the role of Carmen for a Chicago stock company production of Carmen Jones.

Nichols toured the United States, Canada and Europe as a singer with the Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton bands. On the West Coast, she appeared in The Roar of the Greasepaint—the Smell of the Crowd, For My People, and garnered high praise for her performance in the James Baldwin play, Blues for Mister Charlie. Prior to being cast as Lt. Uhura in Star Trek, Nichols was a guest actress on television producer Gene Roddenberry's first series, The Lieutenant.