In season one, you see a very Vulcan Burnham you see someone who has been dealing with the duality of Vulcanism versus humanity, logic versus emotion, and leaning way more toward Vulcanism. Well, one of the things I love and appreciate the most about being able to play this character is how I’ve been written, and there always seem to be these dualities with Michael Burnham. Can you give us a little insight into her journey this season? Why is she ready to accept the call now? She spends a year alone, living by totally different rules, then she has a hard time reintegrating into Starfleet and taking orders from anyone. I have to admit, I was surprised by how Michael ended up there. And it meant so much to me as a Black woman to have that moment right now at this point in time. I think it makes that much more impactful. It was important to me that Burnham overcome all of the necessary challenges to be the person that would be ready to accept that call. It’s something we’ve believed in very firmly. When and how did you learn you would end up there?įrom the very beginning - even with our original showrunners, Aaron Harberts and Gretchen Berg, up to our current showrunners, Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise - that has always been in the ether, that this was something we were headed toward, that Burnham would be on this journey of self-actualization that would also be the journey to the chair. When Discovery premiered in 2017, it was the first Star Trek show in which the main character wasn’t a captain, and now Michael’s in the captain’s chair at last. The star hopped on the phone with Vulture to help us decode her character’s journey to the top. On top of all that, Martin-Green herself welcomed a second child in July. While that journey didn’t take Sonequa Martin-Green 930 years, her character’s moment was definitely a long time coming, capping off a season that aired in one of the most politically urgent eras of Star Trek’s 50-plus-year history - a season that arrived several months later than anticipated thanks to a global pandemic, in the midst of a critical turning point for the Black Lives Matter movement and racial justice, and mere weeks before a presidential election that would ultimately deliver the United States its first woman of color in the vice-presidency. It takes the whole season - and a lot of bad calls - for her to come back around. ![]() When the Discovery finally does arrive, Burnham has been on her own for a full year, free of the crushing responsibilities she has struggled with for the past two seasons and completely unsure of how she fits into the organization she’s been working so tirelessly to reunite. She was freelancing as a courier in the hope of finding clues about the Burn, a mysterious galactic disaster that scattered the United Federation of Planets to the winds and left countless worlds vulnerable to exploitation by a massive crime syndicate. The xenoanthropologist at the center of Star Trek: Discovery arrived in the 32nd century all alone back in October, with no hint as to when - or if - her ship and crewmates would ever join her. Discovery’s captain’s chair at the end of this week’s season finale and said, “Let’s fly,” she had traveled one hell of a long way to get there. ![]() īy the time Michael Burnham sat in the U.S.S. Perhaps he got the idea for the disguise from his former prison guard.Photo: Patrick Lewis/Starpix for The Paleey Center for Media/ShutterstockĮditor’s Note: This interview contains spoilers for the season finale of Star Trek: Discovery. The female bounty hunter was actually Harcourt Fenton Mudd in disguise and he was selling an android duplicate of himself to the Tellarite. Mudd pleads his innocence, only to have Krit bring up the United Federation of Planets' charges against him-and reward for his capture. They are not the same human/alien being.Ī Tellarite bounty hunter, Tevrin Krit, purchases prisoner Harcourt Fenton Mudd from a female bounty hunter before she beams away and departs. ![]() This is likely where your confusion comes from. She was in charge of the cell block where Harcourt Fenton Mudd was being held in an Orion prison in one of the flashback scenes in ST-ST S01E04: The Escape Artist.Įarlier, the same Short Trek vignette opened with an armored female bounty hunter selling Harcourt Fenton Mudd to a Tellarite bounty hunter, Tevrin Krit. She is an unnamed Orian guard (played by Myrthin Stagg), not a bounty hunter.
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