There is a quote by Whoopi Goldberg underlying the importance of representation. After seeing Nichelle Nichols play Lieutenant Uhura in Star Trek, Goldberg said, “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.” That day stirred powerful emotions in her, inspiration that g