Discovery Season 1 Had A Big Surprise For Sonequa Martin-Green

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Summary

Sonequa Martin-Green was unaware of the switch from Captain Georgiou to Mirror Universe Georgiou in Star Trek: Discovery season 1.
Martin-Green knew about Jason Isaacs’ storyline as Lorca but not the change involving Michelle Yeoh’s characters.
The series began on the USS Shenzhou, captained by Georgiou, before transitioning to the USS Discovery in episode 3.

One of the biggest turns of Star Trek: Discovery season 1 surprised Sonequa Martin-Green, who wasn’t aware it would happen. As Michael Burnham, Martin-Green was the unique series lead of Star Trek: Discovery, who was a Specialist and former mutineer in season 1 before ultimately becoming Captain of the USS Discovery. But while Sonequa starred as Sasha in The Walking Dead, the two more famous actors who helped establish Star Trek: Discovery in season 1 were Jason Isaacs, who played Captain Gabriel Lorca, and Michelle Yeoh, who played Captain Philippa Georgiou and her Mirror Universe counterpart, Emperor Georgiou.

Appearing as a guest on The D-Con Chamber podcast, Sonequa Martin-Green was asked by hosts Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer about the beginning of Star Trek: Discovery, and whether Jason Isaacs and Michelle Yeoh were “meant to stay” or if they were always going to exit the series at some point. Martin-Green revealed that she knew about Isaacs’ storyline as Lorca, but that she was surprised by Star Trek: Discovery season 1 switching Captain Georgiou for the Mirror Universe Georgiou. Read Sonequa’s quote and watch The D-Con Chamber video below:

I knew about Jason. I knew about Lorca. We knew that whole storyline, all of us knew that. But I didn’t know at the very beginning that they were going to turn Michelle Yeoh, that they were going to kill Prime Georgiou so they could bring up Mirror Georgiou. I didn’t know that part.

I also didn’t even know when we started that… ‘Cause we started on the Shenzhou, which was Captained by Georgiou. And I didn’t know that we were gonna turn to Discovery [in episode 3]. The first two episodes are basically a prequel… We were a prequel to our own selves, episodes one and two. And episode three of season 1 is where Discovery starts.