Illustration Friday: Communication

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Lt. Uhura, Communications Officer aboard the starship Enterprise, played by the beautiful Nichelle Nichols. probably the most useless job on the bridge. so useless in fact that the position was dropped in later series (excluding the Enterprise series), but who cares?

other than Yeoman Rand, Kirk's personal.. (oh, what's a good title for her? secretary? assistant? concubine?) Uhura was the only female senior officer on the bridge. with such memorable lines as "hailing frequencies open, captain" and "they're not responding, sir" it's pretty obvious her main purpose on the show was eye candy for adolescent geeks, with her sexy red miniskirt uniform and go-go boots (and i know we all miss those in the later movies and tv shows).

i also couldn't resist a pop culture reference to the classic rock hit of the phenomenal band Led Zepplin "Communication Breakdown". along with a tip o' the hat to Image Comics, some of the people who defied the CCA and actually made a living without bowing to the censorship of that outdated institution.

as usual this illustration was created exclusively for this IF challenge in Adobe Illustrator. thanks for stopping by and have a groovy week ahead. and thanks for last week's comments.