Star Trek: Discovery’s Sonequa Martin-Green and Showrunner Michelle Paradise Tease Season 4

With Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 starting this Thursday night on Paramount , I recently got to speak with Sonequa Martin-Green and showrunner/executive producer Michelle Paradise about the upcoming season. During the interview, they revealed what fans would be surprised to learn about the making of Discovery, what Season 4 is about, their favorite part about the series taking place so far in the future, the future tech depicted on the series, if Grudge the cat has a bigger role, and Martin-Green talks about what it means to be a black female Captain on a Star Trek series. In Season 4, we find Michael Burnham (Martin-Green) in the Captain’s chair after Saru (Doug Jones) decided to help Su’Kal start a new life on Kaminar. Discovery is still located more than nine-hundred years in the future where they are trying to help rebuild the Federation, which includes getting dilithium to the planets that were cut off by the burn. Star Trek: Discovery also stars Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tilly, Wilson Cruz as D