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Star Trek: Discovery Finds Its Lead With a Current Walking Dead Actress
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| 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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KEYWORDS: hollyweirdvalues; homofascism; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; propaganda; rapingmychildhood; revisionisthistory; thesearchforviewers
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To: Brooklyn Attitude
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posted on
12/14/2016 7:57:38 PM PST
by
longtermmemmory
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To: FreedomStar3028
Star Trek: Powered by Astroglide....
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posted on
12/14/2016 7:58:57 PM PST
by
longtermmemmory
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To: LouieFisk
Michael Dukakis’ perfect running mate...(that win well, NOT!)
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posted on
12/14/2016 7:59:49 PM PST
by
longtermmemmory
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To: fieldmarshaldj
...with special Guest appearance by Hitlary.
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posted on
12/14/2016 8:01:10 PM PST
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longtermmemmory
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To: LouieFisk
Barret, Roddenberry’s 2nd wife, would be awfully old to have any kind of major role. She’ll be 85 before the show airs.
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posted on
12/14/2016 8:01:19 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: headstamp 2
To go where no gerbil should go...
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posted on
12/14/2016 8:02:01 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
To: FreedomStar3028
only the st voyager fans who don’t like Seven of Nine who was hired to save the series from cancelation.
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posted on
12/14/2016 8:02:16 PM PST
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longtermmemmory
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To: FredZarguna
“Shell be 85 before the show airs.”
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Being dead doesn’t bode well for her acting future, either.
To: FredZarguna
To: SMGFan
You might want to wait until Lucille gets done with her.
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posted on
12/14/2016 8:04:18 PM PST
by
McGruff
(If you tell a lie and keep repeating it, stupid people will come to believe it.)
To: longtermmemmory
*shudders*
Well, if they want to do a horror sci-fi (which would probably be better)...
To: McGruff
Snowflakes IIIINNnnnnnnn Spaaaace!!!!!!!!
USS Hissyfit
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posted on
12/14/2016 8:05:40 PM PST
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longtermmemmory
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To: FreedomStar3028
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posted on
12/14/2016 8:05:45 PM PST
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: FreedomStar3028; sheana
Nothing wrong with Supernatural I won't go that far. It is a great show and the leads play well off each other, but it's as bad as just about any program out there for pushing progtard agenda items. Some episodes have gotten so bad in the last two seasons you have to fast forward through them.
I suppose DVR's were invented just to screen out the awful politics in otherwise decent material.
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posted on
12/14/2016 8:06:08 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: LouieFisk
Eenie meenie miney moe...
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posted on
12/14/2016 8:07:25 PM PST
by
W.
(A funny thing happened on the way to the forum...)
To: reg45
Astromycologist: an expert on space mushroomsDefinitely on space mushrooms:
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posted on
12/14/2016 8:07:38 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
To: Brooklyn Attitude
They should cast Hillary Clinton in the lead and watch the ratings soar!
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posted on
12/14/2016 8:09:03 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
To: fieldmarshaldj
Probably voted for Hillary, then.
[Thanks, did not realize she had passed; been gone a while.]
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posted on
12/14/2016 8:11:04 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: butlerweave
The Brits already made a SF movie about about a female dominant culture where 2 men try to escape (essentially they are labour slaves). I don’t recall if there was a related series or several movies in the storyline. I caught it on American tv a few times in the 1970s.
Think Space: 1999 type costumes.
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posted on
12/14/2016 8:13:08 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
To: LouieFisk
Ah yes, Yeoman Colt - the one with the "unusually strong female drives". :-)
My favorite is still the "Trek girl" prototype:
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posted on
12/14/2016 8:15:35 PM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
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