See It, Be It
Martin-Green knows how much it means to fans to see someone who looks like her attain such a lofty position in the Trek universe. “As a woman of color — raised in the South, no less — I know intimately the dearth of those images,” she says. “And I know how visualization leads to actualization. Having a black woman at the helm becomes a bridge that connects what was to what is now, to what can be.”