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The New Star Trek Series Finally Realizes Gene Roddenberry's Ultimate Vision

• https://www.wired.com, Charlie Jane Anders

While she won't be a captain, Entertainment Weekly reports, she'll be playing Rainsford, a lieutenant commander "with caveats," aboard the U.S.S. Discovery.

Regardless of insignia, Martin-Green's casting in Star Trek: Discovery fulfills a long held ambition on the part of the show's original showrunner. Bryan Fuller, who has since departed from the show, has said for years that he wants an African-American woman to play the lead in his Star Trek project. But more importantly, this news also brings Discovery closer to living up to the ideals that Star Trek always tried to live up to.

From its beginnings more than 50 years ago, Star Trek has always been about humanism. Creator Gene Roddenberry was famously a secular humanist himself, and he spoke eloquently about wanting to portray a future in which people use science to solve our own problems. That commitment to humanism is why Captain Kirk is always meeting gods—and refusing to worship them—in the Original Series.


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