Nyota Uhura joined the Enterprise after the 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before". She's been featured on the Enterprise & Enterprise A since then. Below are the episodes in which she appeared, and my comments upon her role in those episodes.

Season One "The Corbomite Maneuver" - role: minor "Mudd's Women" - role: minor "The Man Trap" - role: minor "The Naked Time" - role: involved - "Sorry, neither" is Uhura's response to a swashbuckling sword carrying Sulu, who offers: "I'll protect you fair maiden" - she's also involved in communications coordination of the crisis "Charlie X" - role: involved: - we hear Uhura sing for the first time; we also see her playful sense of humor and interaction with her crewmates "Balance of Terror" - role: involved - definitely an integral bridge role here; interaction with Spock on Romulan transmissions; ordered to take over navigation just prior to final battle; wish we'd seen more of her in this type of role "What Are Little Girls Made of?" - role: minor "Dagger of the Mind" - role: minor "The Conscience of the King" - role: minor "The Galileo Seven" - role: minor "Court-Martial" - role: minor "The Menagerie" - role: minor "Shore Leave" - role: minor "The Squire of Gothos" - role: involved - interaction with the crew and with Trelane; plays the harpsichord planetside courtesy of Trelane's powers "Arena" - role: minor "The Alternative Factor" - role: minor "Tomorrow is Yesterday" - role: involved - monitors 20th century communications; makes quite an impression on Captaion John Christopher "The Return of the Archons" - role: minor "A Taste of Armageddon" - role: minor "Space Seed" - role: involved - refuses to cooperate with Khan's people and is physically struck for her loyalty to her Captain and shipmates "This Side of Paradise" - role: minor "Errand of Mercy" - role: minor "The City on the Edge of Forever" - role: involved - member of the landing party stranded on the planet after McCoy changed time; she also states some of the sweetest words the landing party will here, "the Enterprise is up there, they want to know if we want to beam up" "Operation: Annihilate!" - role: minor

Season Two "Catspaw" - role: minor "Metamorphosis" - role: minor "Friday's Child" - role: minor "Who Mourns for Adonais?" - role: minor "Amok Time" - role: minor "The Changeling" - role: involved - Uhura's singing prompted Nomad's curiousity to investigate the sound, subsequently wiping Uhura's memory; we see Uhura in Sick Bay being retrained to read; her pronunciation 'BLU-EE' for blue has always been a fan favorite "Mirror, Mirror" - role: pivotal - this episode is as close to the network's unfulfilled promise of a second season 'Uhura episode', as there was; each member of the landing party has crucial roles in the attempt to get back to 'their Enterprise'; Uhura covertly gets information to the Captain; marvelously handles a jaded and heartless Sulu to get what she wants and needs to get them home; rushes into the fray in Sick Bay trying to subdue the 'other' Spock; she conquers her internal fears of the 'mirror universe' and does what she must do to help complete the mission, including physically disarming Lt. Marlena Moreau. "The Deadly Years" - role: minor "I, Mudd" - role: involved - Uhura runs a play on the androids making them think she wants an android body so she can live forever, thereby giving a reason for her turning 'traitor' on her Captain and shipmates; the ruse works and aids in the total plan to confuse the androids "The Trouble with Tribbles" - role: involved - on shore leave at Space Station K-7, Uhura brings a tribble back to the ship ensuring the ensuing antics caused by the creatures "Bread and Circuses" - role: minor - although we don't see much of Uhura, she's the only one who realizes that the Roman like culture are not sun worshippers, but Son of God worshippers "Journey to Babel" - role: minor "A Private Little War" - role: minor "The Gamesters of Triskelion" - role: involved - Uhura, along with Captain Kirk and Ensign Chekov are beamed to a remote planet and told they are 'thralls' (slaves); Uhura is in the unenviable position of having to fight off her lusting 'trainer'; "Obsession" - role: minor "The Immunity Syndrome" - role: minor "A Piece of the Action" - role: minor "By Any Other Name" - role: minor "Return to Tomorrow" - role: minor "Patterns of Force" - role: minor "The Ultimate Computer" - role: minor "The Omega Glory" - role: minor "Assignment: Earth" - role: minor

Season Three "Spectre of the Gun" - role: minor "Elaan of Troyius" - role: minor - Uhura vacated her quarters for the ungrateful Dohlman; we get a glimpse of the quarters: a zebra-skin bedspread, African sculptures, masks and decorated wall panels "The Enterprise Incident" - role: minor - Uhura is quite strong with a sarastic Dr. McCoy; when McCoy states he doesn't make housecalls (referring to the Romulans), she assertively breaks through his sarcasm with ".. it's Captain Kirk!". "And the Children Shall Lead" - role: minor "Spock's Brain" - role: minor "Is There in Truth No Beauty" - role: minor "The Empath" - role: minor "The Tholian Web" - role: involved - Uhura sees an almost spectral Captain Kirk while in her quarters; in her off-duty clothes she rushes to tell Spock; she is not believed that Captain Kirk is alive; her faith that Kirk was alive was vindicated when other crew members saw him "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" - role: minor "The Day of the Dove" - role: minor "Plato's Stepchildren" - role: involved - Uhura, along with Chapel are beamed to Platonius against their will. She is forced to appear in a 'live-play', mind-directed by Parmen. Her role in this appears to be as Captain Kirk's 'lover'. Their kiss was the first interracial kiss on network television. "Wink of an Eye" - role: minor "That Which Survives" - role: involved - Uhura is tasked to watch ship reactions while Scotty is working in the Jeffries Tube "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" - role: minor "The Lights of Zetar" - role: minor "The Way to Eden" - role: minor "The Savage Curtain" - role: minor - Uhura lets 'President Lincoln' know that racial prejudice is a relic of the past and not known in their time; this was in response to Lincoln's referring to her as a "charming Negress" and then promptly apologizing for the remark "Turnabout Intruder" - role: minor

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