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Michael Burnham appears in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home?

I think it would be quite problematic if, of Star Trek's pathetic handful of black female characters, two actually turn out to be the same person so we have one fewer than we even thought we had. The only connection made between the two characters in this 'theory' seems to be that they are black women who at some point were command track.

You mean she doesn’t change her name and become geordis mother!!

Edit....see I was late to the party.
 
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Didn't they name the Captain of the Saratoga Sinclair, in honor of the the actress who had passed? I could have sworn I read that somewhere, but maybe it wasn't canon
 
I sm OK with this theory but obviously not something that can be confirmed in Discovery even if the showrunners were in favor if it.

At least we can put the admiral Cornwell/Lethe theory to rest. But Voq/Tyler and Garth/Lorca theories are still kicking, and we can add this to them.
 
I mentioned this theory a while back, when Sonequa was cast. It's starting to gain some traction:

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Could the Captain of the USS Saratoga be Michael Burnham? This was the first female Captain to appear in Star Trek.

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Besides not looking much alike, Madge Sinclair had a fairly prominent Jamaican accent while Sonequa Martin-Green's is from Alabama with a lot of theater vocal lessons suppressing it to play someone from anywhere in the US.

Not that either are insurmountable issues, mind you, but I agree with the others that it creates an uncomfortable situation when we reduce the already low number of characters played by people of color down even more by combining two of them into one for the sake of a minor continuity giggle for fans.

Plus, we don't know Burnham's fate as of yet. Discovery doesn't really strike me as a "And they lived happily ever after (until 30 years later when their ship was disabled by a giant whale-loving space robot Tootsie Roll)" type show.
 
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