Star Trek: Discovery star Sonequa Martin-Green paid homage to the Black women of Star Trek while speaking with Whoopi Goldberg. As of Discovery season 4, Green has become the first Black woman to portray the captain of a ship in the Star Trek universe.
Her character, the xeno-anthropologist Michael Burnham originally started the series as a disgraced mutineer hired as a science officer, but eventually worked her way up to the captain's chair. The first two episodes of Discovery season 4 have
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