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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Yep. You are totally right.
Yo,yo,yo - make it so!
“Didn’t she die? That was GR’s wife.”
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Yup. The original “Number One”, Majel Barrett, passed away in 2008.
Agree on both counts. Politically correct makes for boring TV and FX with a dash of T&A, but no character/talent isn’t much on which to base an ongoing film series.
I was thinking more like a Proctologist on Uranus.....
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He’s on the New Orleans version. I have always liked Bakula because of my love for QL and despite the fact he’s a big lib. I didn’t care for Enterprise, but Men of a Certain Age was great. I wouldn’t watch him on whatever that gay show was that he was in.
Wow....women are so tough nowadays....I know for sure they are aggressive as hell on the highways..!!
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