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Star Trek: Discovery Finds Its Lead With a Current Walking Dead Actress
TVGuide ^ | December 14, 2016

Posted on 12/14/2016 7:31:05 PM PST by SMGFan

Star Trek: Discovery finally has its star. The Walking Dead's Sonequa Martin-Green will headline the first Star Trek series in over a decade for CBS All Access, TVGuide.com has learned. Martin-Green will play a lieutenant commander in the new series hitting CBS' streaming network in May 2017. This is the first time that a Star Trek series won't be anchored by a character playing a captain, but according to Entertainment Weekly, who first reported the news, Martin-Green's character's position as lieutenant will have "caveats."

Casting an African-American female to lead the series was a big priority for the show's original showrunner, Bryan Fuller, who left the show earlier this fall due to his other creative commitments. Sonequa Martin-Green's casting follows the announcement that Rent alum Anthony Rapp will also be playing the openly gay Lt. Stamets, an "astromycologist" and Starfleet Science Officer.

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To: FreedomStar3028
Sisko was THE best captain though.

I preferred Poncho.


101 posted on 12/15/2016 12:21:16 AM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: BenLurkin

I hope they rename it Urectum to end those stupid jokes once and for all ;)


102 posted on 12/15/2016 12:28:23 AM PST by Trillian
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To: SMGFan

Speaking personally, she’s so gorgeous I’d sit there for an hour just watching her read the telephone book.


103 posted on 12/15/2016 1:39:14 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: clamper1797

Amen and nothing irritates me more than Weirdowood shoving homosexual relationships down our throats on every single tv show and movie these days. Enough already; it has gotten on my last nerve!


104 posted on 12/15/2016 1:45:51 AM PST by Boomer
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To: SMGFan

I’m not familiar with the actress and haven’t paid attention to Star Trek in many years, but it strikes me as odd to build a dramatic series around a junior officer. A sitcom, sure, where the junior can play off the boss for laughs (e.g. MTM and Ed Asner), but in a dramatic series the lead generally has to make consequential decisions, and not just occasionally but in every episode. “Yes, captain,” is going to limit the scope.


105 posted on 12/15/2016 2:28:05 AM PST by sphinx
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To: LouieFisk

As soon as shows start making political correctness their primary agenda the quality goes down hill. I expect the Star Wars movies to end up losing popularity as Disney has made them just another modern space action special effects series, nothing special like they use to be.


106 posted on 12/15/2016 3:55:06 AM PST by Rufus Shinra (Trump is the last best hope for our country. Independence vs. Globalism.)
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To: SMGFan

Guess I won’t be watching that series. Woopie Goldberg was a sight for sore eyes in the other one.


107 posted on 12/15/2016 4:00:56 AM PST by Renegade
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To: SMGFan

I’m done watching TV shows with women in men’s roles


108 posted on 12/15/2016 4:04:34 AM PST by Trump-a-licious
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To: Salamander

the real actress doesn’t have dreadlocks, that’s a wig she wears for the walking dead :)


109 posted on 12/15/2016 4:47:56 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: SMGFan

Who had Sosa in the Walking Dead death pool?


110 posted on 12/15/2016 4:51:33 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
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To: LouieFisk

Didn’t she die? That was GR’s wife.


111 posted on 12/15/2016 4:52:39 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
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To: SMGFan

I think they should go all in and retitle this show “The Obama Administration in Space”.


112 posted on 12/15/2016 4:55:10 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Somewhere Jeb weeps. (please clap))
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To: SMGFan

I predict that this will fare no better than Star Trek Voyager. Black and female. Is she also ghey? Is the name of their ship, “Agenda”?


113 posted on 12/15/2016 5:12:52 AM PST by BuffaloJack
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To: Vince Ferrer
I have always wanted a Star Trek show called "Red Shirts."

I'm guessing you've probably already read it, but if not you should take a look at "Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas", written by John Scalzi. I think he stole your idea.

114 posted on 12/15/2016 6:53:47 AM PST by NewMexLurker
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To: FreedomStar3028
Sisko was THE best captain though.

WRONG !!! James T. Kirk 1.0 was the best captian

115 posted on 12/15/2016 7:13:38 AM PST by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Oh, thank God.

:D


116 posted on 12/15/2016 8:14:48 AM PST by Salamander (I'm Your Pain...)
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To: BuffaloJack

No.

Token.


117 posted on 12/15/2016 8:15:51 AM PST by Salamander (I'm Your Pain...)
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To: SMGFan
openly gay Lt. Stamets

It's a faggot show.

I don't watch faggot shows.

118 posted on 12/15/2016 8:20:21 AM PST by NorthMountain (Drain the swamp.)
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To: Duchess47

Dunno. I look at Scott Bakula, he’s likable enough but two things jump out. 1. His face looks too big for his body and it’s distracting. 2. His VERY best acting is that little “Hoooo!” at the end of his Quantum Leap episodes.

Point of interest - they wanted him for the role of Gibbs in the original NCIS. Don’t think the franchise would have lasted with him in the role, he plays touch-feely with his people unlike Mark Harmon.


119 posted on 12/15/2016 8:42:24 AM PST by FrogMom (Chicken Little is coming, and he's right!)
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To: Vermont Lt

Yes she did.


120 posted on 12/15/2016 10:34:37 AM PST by TalonDJ
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