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“We approached it from a very organic place of, ‘What do we need from this character?’ Stacey Abrams, what she’s done, what she continues to do, the values that she embodies, all of that feels like who we wanted representing this moment.”

“We weren’t looking to make history,” Paradise says. This kind of thinking echoes Stacey Abrams’ own career but also, as Burnham says, gives “hope for tomorrow.”įor Paradise, the goal of bringing Abrams in wasn’t to “break new ground” for the franchise, but instead to do something that felt right in the context of the world today. In the final scene, Abrams tells Captain Burnham that there’s still “a lot of work” that needs to happen to unify the Federation. Paradise and the Discovery team reached out to Abrams because “we knew that she was a fan of Discovery and of Star Trek in general.” Abrams agreed to do the cameo, but she also insisted that Paradise and Kurtzman not tell her “too much” about the plot of the season “because she’s a fan and wanted to watch it.”

Stacey Abrams in the Star Trek Discovery Season 4 finale. Once Alex and I talked about it, we were just both so excited by the idea that we couldn’t think of anyone better.” We all live here on Earth, so we knew we needed a person for the face of that. “And, again, we also knew that Earth was the linchpin in our finale. “There was never anyone else in consideration for the role,” Paradise says.

STAR TREK DISCOVERY SEASON 3 SEASON FINALE REGISTRATION

Abrams has been credited with spurring a huge increase in voter registration in Georgia, and her progressive activism and humanist viewpoints feel right at home in Star Trek, making her appearance as the President of United Earth aspirational and touching. And the President is played by none other than Stacey Abrams, former Minority Leader in the Georgia House of Representatives and current 2022 Gubernatorial candidate in the state.Ībrams is a lifelong Star Trek fan, and in 2020 appeared on the official Star Trek Podcast, the Pod Directive, in conversation with Tawny Newsome and Paul F. ParamountĪfter all the nail-biting at the Galactic Barrier, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Federation President Rillak (Chelah Horsdal) greet the President of Earth. So, it felt really important to us to get to that in the last few episodes.” We always knew from that point it would be a two-season arc and that bringing Earth back in would be the completion of that arc. “When we came into Season 3, we came into a world where the Federation was kind of torn apart. “Earth was always going to be the cornerstone of Season 4,” Paradise says.

This was a shocking twist, and Michelle Paradise tells Inverse that this specific story, which began in the 2020 episode “People of Earth,” was always designed to be concluded this year. Previously, in Season 3 of Discovery, we learned that 32nd century Earth had left the Federation and become more isolationist.

Spoilers ahead! Earth re-enters the FederationĪt the very end of the Discovery finale, after a huge crisis with Species Ten-C is averted and Earth and Ni’Var avoid destruction by the massive Dark Matter Anomaly, the United Federation of Planets welcomes Earth back into the fold. Here’s what she had to say about Season 5, the casting of the President of Earth, and why the Discovery universe is always expanding. Ahead of the release of the episode, “Coming Home,” Inverse chatted with Discovery showrunner and writer of the finale, Michelle Paradise. In a moment both surprising and tender, the last scene of the Season 4 finale of Star Trek: Discovery reveals a surprise guest star in a brief but pivotal cameo.