A Walking Dead actress is about to forge the final frontier.
Sonequa Martin-Green has been cast as the lead in the upcoming Star Trek: Discovery, EW.com reports.
Martin-Green will play a lieutenant commander in the sci-fi reboot, a role then-executive producer Bryan Fuller described at last summer's Television Critics Association press tour as having "caveats."
The 13-episode first season, which will be available weekly on CBS All Access after launching with a two-hour premiere on CBS network in May, follows an incident in the history of Starfleet that other series/movies in the franchise have touched on but never fully explored. Per Fuller, Discovery will tell "that story through a character who is on a journey that is going to teach her how to get along with others in the galaxy."
CBS declined to comment on the casting.
Fuller stepped down as showrunner earlier this fall due to creative differences. "I'm not involved in production, or post-production," he recently confirmed. "So I can only give them the material I've given them and hope that it is helpful for them. I'm curious to see what they do with it."
Martin-Green's casting is sure to raise questions about the future of her Walking Dead character, Sasha, who remains very much alive on the AMC hit. An AMC rep maintains that the actress remains a series regular on the AMC series.
She joins a cast that includes Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Doug Jones (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Anthony Rapp (Rent), Shazad Latif (Penny Dreadful) and Chris Obi (American Gods).
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