In December 2016, it was announced that Martin-Green would serve as the series lead of Star Trek: Discovery, with the … See more

The casting process was difficult for producers. They searched long and hard to find an actor to pull off Burnham's divided nature between Vulcan and human. Harberts said, "We read a lot of people and they either … See more

Burnham was born to human parents, secretly Section 31 scientists, who were killed when she was a child during a Klingon raid to retrieve a time crystal on a Human-Vulcan research facility on Doctari Alpha, where the f… See more

Writing for E! News, Chris Harnick reviewed the first two episodes of Discovery—"The Vulcan Hello" and "Battle at the Binary Stars"—and considered Martin-Green's performance the strongest element of the show. He p… See more

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