Sonequa Martin-Green is Your DSC Star

[Balok's Decoy]

The EW is reporting that Sonequa Martin-Green will be the lead in DSC.

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/12/14/star-trek-discovery-walking-dead-sonequa-martin-green

Fantastic casting, if you ask me. Can't wait to see this show.

 

[RAMA]

I just spread this on Facebook. Interesting news!

 

[Serveaux]

Great news!

 

[wayoung]

I guess we know who dies in TWD when it returns.

I never liked her acting on TWD. Hopefully she's better on Discovery.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Nice.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I haven't seen any of her work, but I'm thrilled to see a woman of color cast as the lead!

 

[Rahul]

I never watched The Walking Dead. How is she in it?

Ethnic women as the lead. I like that. Seems exactly like what Fuller wanted to do a few years ago, when he imagined a Trek series (set on the Reliant) with Angela Basset as the lead. Now we seem to get substitute-Angela Basset :P
Considering current political climate I would have liked a "brownish" (read: arab or mexican) lead even more than an african-american one. But that's secondary. Primary concern is: Can she act?

 

[tomalak301]

Glad they finally found the lead. Hope she brings a lot to the role.

 

[BJ Wagner]

Nice choice. I'm looking forward to seeing what she brings to the role. Should be good.

 

[queerTrekker]

She's a great actor, i enjoyed her on The Walking Dead.

 

[Cake]

I have never heard her name or seen her face before. I hope her character is good and that she is a great actor.

 

[DigificWriter]

Just as a reminder, the character's name - until they tell us otherwise at some future date (within the course of the season) - is Number One.

She's a great actor, i enjoyed her on The Walking Dead.

That should be "I enjoy her on The Walking Dead", since she's not going anywhere right now.

 

[queerTrekker]

She's on The Walking Dead and Tamara from Once Upon a Time, here's an example of her from TWD

 

[DigificWriter]

^ She's STILL on The Walking Dead.

 

[queerTrekker]

^ She's STILL on The Walking Dead.

whoops grammer error, my bad.

 

[Blooded]

My first reaction to this news was one of disappointment. She's been one of my least favourite performers on The Walking Dead these past few years.

Upon deeper thought, maybe it's just the writing of her character that I'm not a fan of, rather than how she's playing her. She certainly can act, at least.

Just an all round interesting choice, and very interesting choice. I can't say I ever thought she could command the screen like off of the previous Trek show leads have. Looking forward to being surprised though!

 

[DigificWriter]

I didn't initially connect the dots that she was Tamara on OUaT, but I liked what she brought to that role, so it should be interesting to see her as (presumably) a Starfleet officer.

 

[HaplessCrewman]

Just as a reminder, the character's name - until they tell us otherwise at some future date (within the course of the season) - is Number One.

That should be "I enjoy her on The Walking Dead", since she's not going anywhere right now.

Deadline is reporting her character name as Lieutenant Commander Rainsford.

http://deadline.com/2016/12/star-trek-discovery-sonequa-martin-green-cast-lead-rainsford-1201871015/

 

[Titus Andronicus]

Big news! Really excited to see it.

 

[milo bloom]

Fun fact: a while back I started a fanfic about a Lt Cmdr being made XO of a ship command by a Captain Raintree.

Never published any of it but that's still an amusing coincidence.

She looks lovely but I've never watched The Walking Dead. I'll trust the producers here.