Sonequa was speaking with British press, The Independent over on this page, with minimal fact checking done by herself, and the press company. She stated to the outlet that "So having me as the first black lead of a Star Trek, just blasts that into a million pieces.".

Now Star Trek fans must remember good old Uhura as a lead character, by the definition of being the main cast, who is black and female. Let us also not forget, Sisko, who played a lead role in Deep Space 9, as commander of the station. The casting of Star Trek has always been quite diverse, speaking from a casting stand point, but it has also been diverse in the aliens it has created over the years too.

Star Trek has often run on having multiple lead characters, often dedicating an episode to their story. While the captain can be central to many plots, they have always been part of the overall main crew, who are the lead character(s). Even if we do only look at captains, Sisko is still the first to hold the title, if it's a title worth holding. Skin colour should never be a factor in someone acting ability, or even ability.

But if people, like Sonequa, want to make bold claims, they should be doing some amount of research before stating something, because this is another incident that will stick in the minds of Star Trek fans.

This is another crazy comment to come from the cast of Discovery, who are arguably showing real fans, that they don't care for the past history of the series. I had over the months, been hoping for Discovery to actually be a good Star Trek show, but the more the cast speak, and scrub history from the series, the less interested I am.

Discovery is coming out on September 25th, that's if you want to watch it, Jason Isaacs dares you not to if you are a fan.

WRITTEN & EDITED BY Three of Seven - rena.hobden@ufplanets.com