Patrick Stewart and other Star Trek legends pay tribute to Star Trek: Discovery‘s Sonequa Martin-Green, and their touching words brought Discovery‘s series lead and producer to tears. Martin-Green has wrapped five successful seasons as leading Star Trek: Discovery as Captain Michael Burnham. Discovery paved the way for the prospering Star Trek on Paramount+ streaming universe, with five more TV series, a streaming movie, and even more Star Trek on the way. Meanwhile, Martin-Green has been hailed and beloved as a true leader on and off-screen by Star Trek: Discovery‘s cast and crew.

Sonequa Martin-Green and Star Trek: Discovery showrunner Michelle Paradise were guests on The Ready Room hosted by Wil Wheaton to celebrate the series finale of Star Trek: Discovery. Wheaton surprised Martin-Green by gathering a few fellow Star Trek icons – Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, and Jonathan Frakes – to pay tribute to an emotional Sonequa and her indelible impact on Star Trek. Read their quotes and watch the video of The Ready Room below:

Patrick Stewart: Sonequa has the qualities which I struggled to achieve during my first season of The Next Generation. She has authority and leadership, but there is also a human being behind that space captain.

Michelle Hurd: Sonequa, playing Michael as the captain, the captain, what impact she has done for all these young Brown and Black little girls and boys, that she has given them the permission to be the captain.

Jonathan Frakes: She is, to me, one of my favorite humans; kind, spiritual, present, funny, generous. Sonequa Martin-Green is a gem.

Source: The Ready Room