Self is a real person portrayed by Nichelle Nichols in the TV series One Strange Rock (based on a true story).
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Alien (season 1), they were 85 years old.
They appear in 1 episodes out of a total of 10 aired
Self is also portrayed by Mae C. Jemison, Jerry Linenger, Michael Massimino, Brian Shiro, Leland Melvin, Chris Hadfield, Peggy Whitson, Nicole Stott, Jeff Hoffman and Romo Ngatik.
Episodes1
Alien
episode S1.E8 may 2018The freak accident behind complex life. All life on earth started as single cell bacteria and stayed like that for 2 billion years. Successfully spreading across the planet. So even if we do find alien life, what are the chances of that life being complex – like us? Vanishingly rare… on our strange rock, it’s all down to a freak event, which accidentally happened when one cell ate another to create a kind of cellular power pack: mitochondria. This almost miraculous event transforms earth into a complex interconnected food web based on a competition for food. And at the top of the pyramid sits us humans.- 45min