‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Star Bites Back at Racist Critics & She Bit HARD!
Since CBS’s upcoming show Star Trek: Discovery has been promoting, racist critics have been coming out the woodwork, labeling the show as a “white genocide.” The conversation has been so ridiculous even the original star George Takei had to step in.
However, the cast of the show itself hadn’t yet commented. That is, until its star Sonequa Martin-Green clearly had enough.
Sonequa is the first black women to lead a Star Trek cast, and in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, she said: “I would encourage them to key into the essence and spirit of Star Trek that has made it the legacy it is — and that’s looking across the way to the person sitting in front of you and realizing you are the same, that they are not separate from you, and we are all one.”
She continued: “That’s something Star Trek has always upheld and I completely believe that is why it’s been a mainstay in society in the hearts of so many people for so many decades. I would encourage them to look past their opinions and social conditioning and key into what we’re doing here — which is telling a story about humanity that will hopefully bring us all together.”
Star Trek featured TV’s first interracial kiss and has always tackled issues of injustice. So it’s no surprise they’d be way ahead of every other show on air right now. And Sonequa knows it.
“And it’s hard to understand and appreciate Star Trek if you don’t understand and appreciate that,” she continued. “It’s one of the foundational principles of Star Trek and I feel if you miss that then you miss the legacy itself. I’m incredibly proud to be the lead of this show and be at the forefront of an iteration of Star Trek that’s from the eyes of a black woman that’s never been done before, though obviously there’s been other forms of diversity that have been innovated by Trek. I feel like we’re taking another step forward, which I think all stories should do. We should go boldly where nobody has gone before and stay true to that.”