An Open Letter to the Cast and Crew of Star Trek Discovery

It has been about 10 years since the last Star Trek TV show, Star Trek Enterprise, concluded. In the meantime, the Star Trek movie series has chosen a different timeline and gone on to other quadrants of space. For fans, there remains an hour a week where a series should go. I myself have been curling up with a Deep Space Nine rewatch — I just skip all the Miles/Keiko episodes, I’m much happier that way — and becoming more of a Sisko fan with every episode. But now, now there’s a new series in production: Star Trek Discovery.

I’m not one to get jumping up and down excited about things. My family motto, after You Gonna Eat That?, is pretty much You Must Chill. So as each new Star Trek Discovery announcement comes out, I’m uncomfortably excited. Like Omar Holmon on steroids covered in otters excited. Like my kid on Christmas Eve with a belly full of hot chocolate, a face full of whipped cream, and two fists full of candy canes excited. With this much excitement, I just had to share it with y’all. *Sets timer* *DEEP INHALE* Can we talk about the choice of Sonequa “I shoot walkers like ballers shoot shots” Martin-Green, as Lt. Cmdr. Rainsford? Can we talk about her being one of the only Black people to survive the zombocalypse? Can we talk about the greatness of having a Black woman in Space addressed as Number 1? Can we talk about which Number 1 you’d rather have on your ship?

And Michele Yeoh is cast too? Michelle Yeoh out here with that “If you say I”m famous for Sleeping…