Reply #1: I totally agree. (spoilers) [View All]

I adore Nichelle Nichols for the dignity she brought to the part. I'm not sure how much of the current Uhura disaster to blame on the writing, how much on the directing and how much on the actress, but there was none of that dignity and self-assured competence that Uhura personified in the original series and subsequent movies.

It was the biggest problem with the film, by far. All of the other stuff was either to be expected from Star Trek (dodgy science, questionable plotting) or relatively minor (the car chase scene, that annoying cutesy alien of Scotty's.) But the weird treatment of women (tarting up Uhura, killing off Amanda, leaving out any other women of note in the series) was definitely problematic.