Star Trek: Discovery is an agonizing almost year away, but here's something to help hold us over until May 2017: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Michelle Yeoh has been cast as a Starfleet Captain, Deadline reports.
Though Discovery's main character will have a female "Number One" serving as lieutenant commander on the Federation starship Discovery -- don't look for Yeoh on that vessel. She'll reportedly play Han Bo, leader of the ship Shenzhou. That means the lead character, rumored to be another non-white female, may be second in command.
That wouldn't be the first time the main character isn't a commanding officer on Star Trek -- Benjamin Sisko, played by Avery Brooks on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, rose through the ranks after starting as commander -- but then, this iteration of the franchise is expected to explore all kinds of new dimensions, including having at least one gay character.
Do Trekkies approve?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @03:03AM
I like how Star Trek is becoming prophetic. In a few years, Facebook will own the Internet (soon to be called InterFace) and the unemployed huddled masses will be crowded into walled ghettos (the Sanctuary Districts) so social media billionaires can enjoy undisturbed freedom of the rich.