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Sonequa Martin-Green Has 'Settled Into' Her 'Worth as a Black Woman in a Way That I Would Not Have Imagined' (Exclusive)

"It has meant a great deal to stand in this position and to have, in a way, grown to fit the position," the actress told PEOPLE of playing Star Trek's first Black female captain

Sonequa Martin-Green is embracing her worth.

The actress portrays Star Trek: Discovery ’s Michael Burnham, the first Black female captain in the long-running franchise, and recently spoke with PEOPLE about how the groundbreaking role has changed her. 

"Since the impact that the show has had on my life has changed over time, it's really hard to answer that question because I feel a certain way about it right now, but I'm going to feel even differently a month from now,” Martin-Green, 38, said at SCAD TVFest in Atlanta on Feb. 8 when asked how being on the series has changed her career. “I'm going to feel even differently five years from now. And it's hard for me to say how it's impacted me when I know that there is still more to come from it.”

Reflecting, Martin-Green shared that playing the protagonist has helped her realize and accept a new level of “worth.”

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"I've settled into my worth as a Black woman in a way that I would not have imagined that was facilitated by the story, that was facilitated by playing Michael Burnham and then Captain Michael Burnham,” she continued. “And then, by the connections that I've made with the people that tell this story. Those connections, they're the kind that ripple throughout the rest of your life.”

Still, Martin-Green doesn’t plan on stopping — and said there’s room for even more personal evolution, telling PEOPLE, “It has meant a great deal to stand in this position and to have, in a way, grown to fit the position. And I'm still growing to fit it.”

She explained, “It's like on one hand I understand that I don't need to do that, but then at the same time it's like that position is greater than me, so I'll just always be growing into it.”

The Walking Dead alum became emotional at the idea of being able to show her 9-year-old son, Kenric Justin III, the CBS series one day, giving him a chance to see her star as a Black lead. 

“He hasn't seen it yet,” said Martin-Green, who shares Kenric III and 3-year-old daughter Saraiyah Chaunté with husband Kenric Green, 41. She added that she’s “excited” for the moment Kenric III and Saraiyah — who wasn’t born yet when Martin-Green began playing Captain Burnham — are ready to tune in to the series. 

“I mean, I could really cry talking about what I might be able to lead by example, what I might be able to show them by example and teach them from what I've experienced and how they might benefit from it,” said the mom of two. “That's everything right there.”

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Sonequa Martin-Green takes the chair as captain in Star Trek: Discovery season 4 trailer

Martin-Green's character Michael Burnham is the first Black woman captain in a live-action Star Trek series.

Sonequa Martin-Green is boldly going where no Star Trek has gone before in Discovery 's fourth season.

After Martin-Green's Michael Burnham was promoted to captain in the season 3 finale, season 4 of the Paramount+ series will see her taking charge as the first Black woman to occupy the captain's chair in a live-action Star Trek show. A new trailer for Discovery 's fourth season, unveiled Saturday at New York Comic Con , teases the crises ahead for Burnham and her crew in the new batch of episodes.

"Today we seek to understand a threat like none our galaxy has faced before," Burnham says in the trailer. The fourth season will see the starship Discovery 's crew dealing with a massive anomaly that threatens life throughout the galaxy, putting Federation and non-Federation worlds alike at risk. The crisis forces these various worlds to work together to confront the unknown and ensure a hopeful future for all.

Multiple new Star Trek series are slated to hit Paramount+ over the next year, including the animated kids' series Star Trek: Prodigy and the Captain Pike-focused Strange New Worlds . Star Trek: Picard is also slated to return for its second season in February.

Star Trek: Discovery season 4, meanwhile, premieres Nov. 18 on Paramount+. Check out the season trailer above.

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How Sonequa Martin-Green became the first black female lead of Star Trek: 'My casting says the sky is the limit for all'

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Star Trek pioneered diversity long before diversity was a hot-button issue. When the series first launched 51 years ago, its original crew featured black, Asian and, yes, females actors – not merely as eye candy – among its cast.

But an all-new reboot, Star Trek: Discovery , goes boldly where no Trek has gone before by placing two women of colour in command of a starship: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon actress Michelle Yeoh and Walking Dead’s Sonequa Martin-Green.

Trekkies have always been a passionate crowd, although even Star Trek: Discovery’s genial show-runner Aaron Harberts was caught off guard by the intensity of the internet trolls and haters. “It’s our job to reflect the world we live in; a world where more than half the population are women. Quite frankly, I don’t know what all the fuss is about,” argues Harberts when The Independent meets him and his cast.

If Yeoh brushes off the pressure – after all, the Malaysian martial-arts dynamo has quietly been shattering glass ceilings for the past four decades – then much of the burden falls to Sonequa Martin-Green taking centre stage as (arguably) Trek’s first black female lead (some fans point to Nichelle Nichols, who played Uura from 1966-91, as the rightful owner of that honour).

“My casting says that the sky is the limit for all of us. I think what we’re seeing now in our media is this push to diminish and to devalue and to make people feel that the sky is not the limit for them, that they are meant for the ground,” says Martin-Green, a force of energy so bubbly and exuberant, its hard to imagine she was chosen to play a human raised as a Vulcan. Not only chosen, but actively waited on; production halted until her Walking Dead contract ran out.

“So having me as the first black female lead of a Star Trek just blasts that into a million pieces. I am eternally grateful that the diverse casting of our show means that we are now a part of the conversation and hopefully a part of making the world a better place, as cliché as this sounds. Because I really believe it and think its vital for us all right now,” she says, the spectre of Trump lurking unspoken.

Not that she views her casting as a triumph for women alone. “I think it sends a message to any minority group that’s been disenfranchised. We all benefit when we can see a picture of ourselves in a position of leadership and I think that goes not just for women and people in minority groups – but for everyone to see that this is possible. I think that it will help people see the beauty of women in power and also the beauty of minorities in power, and to incite change.”

It should be noted that Martin-Green is the first black female first officer, rather than captain. There has previously been a female captain, played by Kate Mulgrew who made franchise history in 1995 when she was anointed as Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager; however, there has yet to be a black female captain.

Star Trek: Discovery is a prequel to Gene Rodenberry’s original series, set about 10 years prior in a world at war. An interesting experiment from Netflix, fans will not be able to binge on the series, each episode rolling out as a weekly episodic show.

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One of the most popular pop culture franchises in history, now returning to TV 12 years after the last Starfleet was cancelled, Harberts and fellow show runner Gretchen J Berg have plotted a very different course for Star Trek: Discovery .

“I believe this is the first time that it’s a serialised telling of a tale and an exploration of just one character [Martin-Green’s Michael Burnham] along the path of discovering what it means to be human and finding her individuality,” says Harberts. “Those stories have been well told in the movie spin-offs, but were impossible to do on TV where each episode was closed-ended.”

While visiting the Discovery set at Toronto’s Pinewood studios, plot-lines are shrouded in secrecy and many sets are off-limits, although we are allowed a peek inside the quarters shared by the crew’s first gay couple – Anthony Rapp’s Lieutenant Paul Stamets and Wilson Cruz’ Dr Hugh Culber.

“We don’t want to make a big deal about it. Its just treated as perfectly normal – which it should be,” says Harberts.

Trekkies have long been divided into Captain Kirk or Spock camps, and Martin-Green herself has always favoured Leonard Nimoy’s Spock from the original series. “Spock is my favourite in the canon. I loved what Leonard Nimoy did,” she says, reverently referring to the three original seasons as “ TOS ”.

Jason Isaacs, who plays Discovery’s war-mongering Captain Gabriel Lorca, is likewise a Trek fan from a different era, admiring Patrick Stewart’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the big screen versions of the late 1990s.

Unsurprisingly, the new cast all geeked out when Jonathan Frakes, who played Riker alongside Stewart in the early film versions, recently guest-directed an episode.

“I’d never met Patrick Stewart before and Jonathan was excited to introduce us at an event we were both attending,” recalls Isaacs, best-known for his role as Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films. “But Jonathan couldn’t come at the last minute so I wandered up behind the world famous silhouette, heard the echo of the magnificent voice, saw the mob of gorgeous well-wishers and... chickened out. So I still don’t know him.”

Born and raised in Alabama, Martin-Green marked her entry into TV nine years ago with a guest spot on an episode of Law & Order , a rite of passage for all New York-based actors, progressing onto episodes on The Good Wife , Gossip Girl and Once Upon a Time before making her name as The Walking Dead’s fiesty Sasha Williams.

“My parents, in particular my mom, were always supportive of my wanting to act but I don’t think either of them viewed it as a legitimate career until they saw me on Law & Order . I played a bisexual high school lacrosse player involved in the beat-down of a high school boy. So much fun,” laughs the actress who has a two-and-a-half-year-old son with husband, Kenric Green.

Its no accident that her captain takes a male name, Michael Burnham. “It is on purpose. It was Brian Fuller’s idea,” she says referring to the writer who conceived the Star Trek reboot, lobbying for a black woman at the fore, before falling out with CBS executives. “A lot of Brian’s female leads have male names. So I am named after my biological father and I love that because I think it really speaks to the gender fluidity. It’s a subtle yet powerful nod to that.”

Certainly Star Trek: Discovery presents a darker narrative. “It‘s grittier and raw in a way that the other iterations have not been. I think that’s one of the ways we’re going boldly where no-one has gone before,” she winks.

She’s excited to meet Nichelle Nichols, 84, who played Uhura on TOS .

“She reached out to me via social media and it will be a glorious day when we meet.”

If the reboot proudly promotes diversity and gender equality then Martin-Green admits her costume fits way too snugly, a common complaint among all previous female Trek cast.

“It’s tight, but its goood,” she says letting the vowel spread like syrup. “It makes you stand up straight so I appreciate it for that. They’re beautifully made and designed. Nor am I complaining about the lipstick after years of running around with zombies in the dirt.”

Empowered by the strong women in her family, she will tell you, “My mother and my older sister are heroes. Also God, right? Because he’s a woman too. He is all things; that’s what I believe.”

And lest you be wondering – yes, the new Star Trek crew do actually repeat the immortal line, “Live long and prosper”.

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ begins streaming on Netflix on 25 September

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'Star Trek’s' History-Making Black Woman Captain Sonequa Martin-Green Shares How She Got Here

Actress Sonequa Martin-Green has graced many small screens, but perhaps her role in “The Walking Dead” catapulted her into super-stardom. Her latest role as Commander Michael Burnham in “Star Trek: Discovery” has sealed her fate as a Hollywood heavyweight. Green is shifting history as Burnham, making her the first Black woman to lead the “Star Trek” series as a captain or commander. 

During an exclusive sit-down with BET Talks, Green shared memories of never feeling Black enough growing up and wishing she had more melanin, how she healed out of that, found her untouchable worth and how she’s been preparing her whole life for where she is now as an actress. 

Sonequa learned early in acting that she’d have to forge her own path–go out for roles as if they called for Black girls, level her own playing field. That’s probably why her shifting history in “Star Trek” is just the tip of the iceberg of her career. 

Check out the full talk to learn more about the greatness that is Sonequa Martin-Green.

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Own Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 on Blu-ray, DVD, Limited Edition Steelbook, and Digital now!

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, Limited Edition Blu-Ray Steelbook, and Digital on December 6 from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. “Certified Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes, fans can enjoy every thrilling episode from the Paramount+ original series with the four-disc collection, packed with over 90 minutes of special features, including exclusive cast and crew interviews, gag reel, deleted scenes and episode commentary.

To celebrate the announcement of the release, CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment provided StarTrek.com with an exclusive clip featuring series lead Sonequa Martin-Green (Michael Burnham) discussing the impact of her role as the first Black woman Captain, how it contributed to her inner-reflection, and her understanding of self. Martin-Green also speaks of Burnham's living quarters, including the significance of the props and her contribution to the set. To learn more about this release, head over to the announce !

Star Trek: Discovery currently streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. Internationally, the series is available on Paramount+ in Australia, Latin America, the UK, and South Korea, as well as on Pluto TV in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland on the Pluto TV Sci-Fi channel. It will also stream exclusively on Paramount+ in Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria later this year. In Canada, it airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave. Star Trek: Discovery is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Star Sonequa Martin-Green Looks Gorgeous While Celebrating 5 Seasons as 1st Black Female Captain

Sonequa Martin-Green broke ground in 2017 as the first Black female captain in the beloved Star Trek franchise. Now, she’s making the rounds to promote and celebrate her fifth and final season as Captain Michael Burnham. See the 39-year-old’s gorgeous style and how she’s honoring her groundbreaking character.

On April 29, Martin-Green chatted with Zakiya Carr Johnson during a screening of Star Trek: Discovery in Washington, D.C. The Russellville, Alabama native spoke with the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer about the end of the hit Paramount+ series and how race influenced her experience .

Earlier in April, Martin-Green explained how she first navigated internalized racism regarding her role. “At the time, I thought, ‘This is all about hope.’ Hope is at the center of this franchise,” she said, according to CBS News . It’s our responsibility to keep that moving forward. People can think what they want to think, but they need a chance to grow.”

The Walking Dead star elaborated on being the first Black female captain : “It was overwhelming at the time. And it was heavy, but God really blessed me with it, and I learned so much from it. I learned so much about who I am as a Black woman. And I learned that I don’t have to fight for my value or my worth because I definitely felt that way.”

Another element of being a Black woman in such a groundbreaking role involved the appearance of Martin-Green’s character . The Space Jam: A New Legacy actor knew she wanted her hair to be “1,000%” natural. With the showrunners in complete agreement, they created a plan to transition Martin-Green’s gorgeous hair from a straight “Vulcan bowl” to a “short ‘fro” to braids, according to her conversation with Ashley & Company . “We all understood, this is a big moment; this is the moment that you know television history is made,” Martin-Green explained.

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Martin-Green took control of Star Trek: Discovery in more helpful ways than one. She eventually became an executive producer, helping shape the series to its conclusion in late May. Trekkies are eagerly anticipating the rest of season five. Martin-Green gave a hint to CBS News. She stated that the final season will be “bigger than we had ever done before.” She explained, “We love these characters. We love the people. We love the story,” perhaps implying a possible movie extension of the Star Trek: Discovery universe.

December 2, 2021

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Star Sonequa Martin-Green Gives Whoopi Goldberg Her Flowers On ‘The View’

Actress Sonequa Martin-Green is making history as the first Black woman to serve in a Captain role on Star Trek .

While appearing on The View to talk about the history she’s making on Star Trek: Discovery , Martin-Green took a moment to credit Whoopi Goldberg for all she represents for Black women in Hollywood. While also shouting out Nichelle Nichols , who played Nyota Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series , Martin-Green took a moment to give Goldberg and Nichols their flowers for paving the way for her to continue breaking glass ceilings into the new generation.

“Making history in this way … I thought it was up to me to do it perfectly and to do everything right to pay homage to the people that came before me,” Martin-Green said.

“But this is not my accomplishment…. I simply stepped onto the path that was already laid for me by Nichelle and by you,” she said while pointing to Goldberg. “And so I am your accomplishment and I thank you.”

She noted Goldberg’s past work that helped give a young Martin-Green hope in acquiring her own success as an actress.

“You mean a lot to me,” she told Whoopi. “A lot of your work I shared with my family growing up, so you kind of hold those memories with me: ‘The Color Purple,’ and ‘ Made in America ,’ and ‘ Ghost .’”

Martin-Green also touched on some things going on in her personal life, like welcoming her second child months before losing both of her parents in April. The Space Jam: A New Legacy star gushed over her 1-year-old daughter, Saraiyah, and shared the challenges of tackling topics about race and culture with her 6-year-old son, Kenric Jr.

“It’s a lot. It’s time. It has to be. Because as genuine and as innocent as he is, a lot of people do not see him this way,” Martin-Green said.

After some of the hosts noted how some people would think her son is too young to have those types of conversations, the Walking Dead star said, “He’s not too young to get shot, is he?”

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Sonequa Martin-Green Celebrates Historic 'Star Trek' Role In Black History Month Post

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Sonequa Martin-Green is honoring Black History Month by celebrating her own place in television history.

The “Star Trek: Discovery” actress became the first black woman to lead the 50-year-old franchise when the show premiered on CBS in 2017 ― and she still can’t believe it.

“As the first Black woman to lead this franchise...I am astounded,” she posted to Instagram on Thursday. “I am honored. I am duty-bound. Happy Black History Month.”

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sonequa Martin-Green (@therealsonequa) on Feb 6, 2019 at 10:43pm PST

Martin-Green, who previously starred as Sasha Williams on AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” plays Michael Burnham in the latest “Star Trek” series . “Discovery,” which premiered its second season in January, takes place a decade before the time depicted in the original series from the 1960s.

During an appearance on “The Ellen Show” last month, Martin-Green praised “Star Trek” for the representation reflected in its cast.

The actress noted Michelle Yeoh’s casting as Captain Philippa Georgiou , making her the first Asian woman to play a captain in the franchise.

Martin-Green also celebrated the franchise having its first openly gay officers . Wilson Cruz, who plays Dr. Hugh Culber , joined the cast as the love interest to character Lt. Commander Paul Stamets , played by Anthony Rapp.

“There’s so much that we’re doing, we’re just trying to uphold that legacy,” Martin-Green added on “Ellen.”

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To celebrate Black History Month, Paramount+ has released a new video chat featuring the leads of two of its series: Sonequa Martin-Green of Star Trek: Discovery and Tawny Newsome of  Star Trek: Lower Decks .

Stargaze with Newsome and Martin-Green

For the first episode of their new “Stargaze” web series of “conversations between the underrepresented stars on screen who bring diverse characters to life,” Paramount+ paired up Tawny Newsome and Sonequa Martin-Green. After a bit of mutual admiration, the two dug into what it meant to them to have the opportunity to lead Star Trek shows, the challenges they have faced in their careers as Black women, and how they take their learned experiences to their work, which includes Newsome’s approach to being a writer on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy . They show fun chemistry while they dig into some serious issues from their unique perspectives, resulting in a video well worth watching for fans of Star Trek.

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Modern Trek is anything but not “representative”.

you ok bud?

You alright?

Awww. Who hurt you?

Black captain. LGBTQ crew members. Yep, no representation there /s. I swear some fan boys really piss me off. One moment someone complains that Trek has become too “woke”. The next minute Trek has no representation. 🤦‍♀️

Did you mean to say “nothing if not?”

Tawny Newsom is a gem. I wouldn’t say no to more live-action Mariner, but how many times can there be a portal?

how about an old fashioned anomaly just to mix things up a bit?

Yeah, if they actually placed a “Live”-Trek show in the Lower Decks time period, it would be one thing. However, having to create a time warp every time to do it is too awkward.

Here is a crazy idea: When Lower Decks finishes its animated run I think they should turn it into a live action show and continue like that for several more seasons.

A Live-action Lower Decks series would never happen because it makes too much sense.

Well, to look at things in reverse, there was never a portal from TOS and TAS but we got the TOS crew (minus Chekov) in animation. Sometimes we just need some suspension of disbelief.

A fantastic actor and Sonequa Martin-Green

I got a chuckle out of this, nice. I did like her in The Walking Dead, don’t know what happened with DSC.

Oh, I was so glad they killed her on TWD. I couldn’t stand her character.

…great episode, the one they took her out in. When that show was hitting on all cylinders it was fantastic.

Same here. The writing didn’t do her any favors on DSC, but I think she was also miscast. In a way that is a good thing, because a better and more appropriate actor probably wound up doing a different and better project instead of being stuck like Mulgrew was on VOYAGER.

Indeed, that was a miscast. But the writing was off-kilter from the second episode, imo, so she didn’t have much to work with.. I’ll be interested to see what she picks up next.

She voices a loudmouth cartoon character? And her character on Space Force was basically her playing herself?

Well played!

Sonequa Martin-Green And Tawny Newsome are both fantastic actress’s who bring to life characters that have added so much to the Trek franchise. I hope we will continue to see them in the Star Trek franchise for years to come.

Actresses (or actors). No apostrophe.

English is not my main language so sorry for not spelling Actresses for you correctly.

Shoot, I’m the one who’s sorry, I shouldn’t have said anything. I live in a development called “The Sierra’s of Inglewood” because somebody got the apostrophe (a native English speaker) wrong on the giant marble and brass sign and it drives me crazy.

So there is a quaint alpine resort in Ingelwood, California.

Who knew? :-)

I find that Sonequa can sometimes come off a little rehearsed or sound-bitey when she speaks, but here I felt she was very connected to Tawny. They have great rapport and speak to the truths and experiences they’ve had, and continue to have. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Sonequa and Tawny together, certainly in a focused way. I think it’s great that they were featured in a one-on-one.

I think more than anything else IRL she is genuine for her love of Trek.

That was the First time I thought SMG was likeable. Tawny is as cool as ever.

Discovery and Lower Decks are the worst ST shows ever made. Just plain out bad…

Well, you’re 50% right…

I LOVE both of these talented women. Fun to see them talking together. SMG is a treasure.

This web series episode featuring Sonequa and Tawny was delightful! They’re both incredibly likable and enjoyable to listen to. Definitely worth watching, and I’m excited for more episodes!

Huh, just looked them up, and Newsome is two years older. For some reason I’m having a problem wrapping my head around that.