Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Raffi Musiker

2. Looking Back To The Future

Like so many people alive today, Hurd was inspired by the Star Trek of yesteryear. As a biracial child, see looked at Uhura in The Original Series and saw representation on television during one of the most turbulent times in the history of the Civil Rights Movement.

She credited her father with ensuring she and her siblings sat down to watch Star Trek and that, through Uhura, they knew that they had:

The permission to be bold and brave and say, ‘I'm supposed to be here. I'm allowed to be here.

To simply be a part of the future is, for Hurd, one of the things that she is most proud of. While she, as a child, saw Uhura on the bridge of the Enterprise and knew that she had a place there too, she now hopes that there are 'little black and brown kids' who will see her, exactly as she is, in the year 2400, existing with full equality and the right to be herself.