Sonequa Martin-Green | The D-Con Chamber - Ep. 8 

Sonequa is great, she’s so lovely.. would be great if you guys could get Tawney Newsome from lower decks on. She’d be wild

This was an incredible interview. It felt like I was sitting and having a chat with friends. Sonnequa has a glowing personality and always brings that wonderful combination of intellect and heart. Great job here all around.

DSC is never going to be my favorite Trek, but Sonequa (and her cast-mates) are absolute treasures. I love her confident authenticity in every interview I’ve seen.

Thank you The D-Con Chamber for interviewing Sonequa!! She's the sweetest, love her so much!!

Aww man, she's awesome! I hadn't realised what happened to her parents, so more credit to her for getting through that awful time.

Sonequa's a class act. You can see why people say such wonderful things about her.

Sonequa has a great positive energy. Can't wait to see what she does next!❤

Guys, get the writers for Prodigy in the D-Con.... They really knocked it out the park.

First interview I have ever seen with Sonequa, man, she is a classy act!

Sonequa, really enjoyed you and the Discovery team. ROLL TIDE!!

I remember living with roommates and because Enterprise aired the same time as Friends they would outvote me to watch Friends on the main tv while I had watch Enterprise in another room with the small tv. My roommate broke the news to me that Enterprise was ending and I was so upset about it I never watched Friends ever again and till this day Friends just reminds me of Enterprise being cancelled. Fuck Friends

I have been a Star Trek fan for over fifty years. I love ALL of the incarnations! Today’s guest is an international treasure and one of the finest actors I have ever seen. Sonequa Martin - Green!! I have been and always shall be her fan! I really hope that we can meet someday. ♥️🖖🏻

Great having Captain Burnham on the show. I was a little late to the premiere this morning. My internal chronometer is off. I rewatched it tonight. 🖖

I love this interview episode....so open, honest and willing to share...Like you guys took me with you on your journey....Thank you all.

Sorry I couldn't watch it live yesterday. But you guys just kept me company at work with this fantastic interview!

Great interview! I saw all 3 of you on the cruise this year and loved every minute. I am crossing my fingers that you have a D-Con party on the ship next year!

Gosh, I love Sonequa! She's just a total class act. She's such a role model for Black & Brown kids, and to see a Black female captain is incredibly unique in and of itself. Great episode!!!

This was such a great conversation! Thanks so much for getting her in and in general starting your delve into Discovery actors. Looking forward to future guests.

Fabulous time having Sonequa Martin-Green on - big thanks @D-ConChamberPod !!! She's a gem in any time period and gave some great insights on the production and her life. ❤💛💙🤓🖖🏾

Fantastic interview with one of the smartest and kind actors in Trek🖖🏾

another great episode! never watched discovery, maybe i should!

WONDERFUL guest choice, and wonderful discussion -- thanks much, @The D-Con Chamber !

Love the star trek discovery behind the scenes knowledge!

Great show! Sonequa was a wonderful guest. I loved the mutual love and respect you all had for each other.

Enterprise was a GREAT Trek!!! UPN was a just a poorly run "business." In fact, if not for Star Trek, Paramount would be a mere memory like MGM, let's face it!! You guys helped save them!!!

It's so insightful hearing from the actors about those that endure the alien costumes and how painful they are. It's a tribute to the actors that they appear on screen to inhabit them so easily. Thanks for having Sonequa on the show and am so keen for Doug Jones sometime soon but am waiting most of all (with much patience) for the wonderful Scott Bakula! Thanks Connor and Dom!

I liked Discovery the first time around but I'm rewatching it from the beginning and am appreciating even more. I'm on the 3rd season, however did see all the 5th. Enjoying it so much. Sonequa is an amazing actress and person.

Can confirm Ed is a Spurs fan, seen him at the stadium before at the Spurs v Arsenal game a few months ago.

Discovery wasn't perfect, but no Trek is if we are being honest, i appreciated them trying a different flavor of Trek then what has gone on before, enjoyed this interview!

Beautiful! Beautiful interview! You guys rock!! Thank you!

Love Sonequa ❤️

This is such a great interview. Thank you guys for bringing Sonequa on ❤

Amazing interview! Incredible seeing three Trek legends have such a wonderful discussion. I know Dom really wasn’t a fan of the Daniels reveal in Discovery but as a fan of Enterprise it felt pretty cool. Overall Star Trek Discovery referenced and honored Connor and Dom’s show a lot.

Excited for Ed! He was such an epic bad guy in Outlander that I didn't think I would like him but I did!

Yet another great episode. So great to see everyone so relaxed and enjoying the interview. Sonequa is a class act and she really riffed off the guys and vice versa.

This was the episode I’ve been waiting for. Love the compare and contrast between your shows! Best episode ever such insightful convo

Thanks for another great conversation, and for giving me something to look forward to every Sunday! Hope you're all staying cool!

Learning that she lost both her parents within 1 day is absolutely devastating.

Remarkable person. I have great respect for her on all levels! I was thoroughly satisfied with the finale of Disco. I wanted an extended ending like in DS9. 👍. P.s Dom, there is only one London, and that's Ontario! 🤣. ( Your comments during the live chat with Michelle Hurd 😉). 🖖😁🤘🇨🇦🍻

Thank you for another wonderful episode.

Great Interview / Love the Show Guys 💯

I'm not much of a fan of Discovery. I've still yet to watch the last season or so. Great interview with the highly talented Sonequa. I look forward to seeing her next project. Another great episode guys!

Great interview with Sonequa! Love the new show.

Glad to see you guys back in it with this new show---hey you have a lava lamp!!!!!

Love her thanks for having her

Such a GREAT interview, as always. I followed and subscribed to the previous channel. Glad to be aboard for the D-Con Chamber. You guys do such a great job at interviewing. I Never miss an episode. Keep it up!

Oh man, she's a blessing incarnate. Much love ❤️ 🥰

Congratulations, Dominic and S.

Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome should be guests soon. Tawny especially since she has a similar energy to Sonequa, she is brilliant, and she also hosted a Trek podcast.

While I'm not a fan of the newest incarnations of Trek, I'm here to support the guys. I'm also glad to see the subscriber numbers going up👍

26:55 - Scott Bakula being sleep deprived most of the time kinda worked for Archer's character, though!

Roll Tide, sister! Never took theatre classes but always caught their shows. Always top shelf performances.

SONEQUA!!!! 💜🖖🪐💫✨

Great interview gentlemen ❤

I only started to like ENT towards the end - specifically season 4. This wasn't the fault of the actors though. The writers in seasons 1-3 were just not up to scratch. Bringing in actual Star Trek book authors to write the episodes helped *a lot* for the show. Unfortunately, it was too late. And then with Braga sticking his fingers in on the last episode and making it an entire holodeck series just was insulting for everyone at the time. Sonequa helped really solidify her character fairly early on. She is compelling as an actress. Her, Michelle, Jason, and the Marys (Chieffo and Wiseman) just had insanely good chemistry. I felt Discovery had technical and continuity issues in the first couple seasons, but the acting was more compelling. After the jump to the future, the technical and continuity issues were more or less gone. But, the acting was substantially subdued vs the earlier seasons. So, half of my concerns left and a new set of concerns took their place. That said, I don't see this as an actor or actress problem. I see this as a show runner and directorial set of issues. So, my hat's off to the entire DSC cast. Doug I recently saw in something I didn't expect to see him in at the time which just floored me: Pencil Head in the movie "Mystery Men" who also had "Son of Pencil Head" as his sidekick. I almost fell out of my chair from laughing and shock. TNG and DS9 didn't really get their footing until season 3. But, by then, they'd already had 78 episodes each. Discovery almost got to that by the end. I think if Enterprise had another season, it could have recovered (assuming Braga stayed out of the writing). Discovery could have also soared so much higher with another 2 seasons. Still, Dominic and Connor were the major ones I felt were believable in Enterprise. As much as I like Scott, I just kept expecting to see him leap into his next life because he just seemed to be temporarily inhabiting his character's body. Jolene I really wish they'd not hypersexualized her (this is also the same argument I have about Seven and Deanna). Women are intelligent and full of agency without all that nonsense that the show runners thought they needed to get the audience. I like that the series runners didn't make the mistake that TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT made by treating their women as people and not sex objects. It allowed Georgiou, Burnham, Tilly, and L'Rell to really showcase their acting talents on merit. That was awesome.

Cool interview! She is smart and pretty.😊

So good again! Thank you so much!

👏👏👏 Great interview

Loved the show, she's a Queen! Did have trouble with the audio. Dominick was very clear, but Sonequa and Conner were very low.

Love you guys 😊

I love DSC, good storytelling and acting. Don’t understand the haters or their negativity.

Connor's introduction was quite fitting for this queen 👑

It's funny I was never a fan of Discovery, being honest, only Voyager ranks lower in my humble opinion. However it wasn't due to the cast. The cast, especially Sonequa, were brilliant. They did the best they could with what they were given.

She is such a great person, and actor. Love her. Overall, Discovery really isn't very good, but I love her 😀🖖

Oh my captain!

Always an amazing show all!

Glad Dom has been doing his research. For Enterprise to lose 10M viewers in 3 weeks just shows how important it is not to deviate from the TNG, DS9, VOY formula. 1) Moral to the story The most obvious difference is the writing. Theater actors should have felt keenly the lack of messaging in episodes since most plays have a message, a moral to the story; at least the good ones. It wasn't just an empty action-filled procedural. Action is only a means to the messaging end. Not sure what the message for Enterprise was. Xindi arc was good but it was really hard to believe Archer's success rate when our tech and knowledge of the quadrant were so nascient. Would have been more believable if Daniels was giving Archer a leg up. But he was there and gone without being fully utilized. 2) Kickass characters The leads were not only good people but kickass Starfleet officers. Discovery did Burnham dirty by making her a mutineer in the pilot and a bad one at that because she was wrong and then got her beloved captain killed. Compare that to Picard whose diplomacy in the pilot gets him freed from an omnipotent Q's kangaroo court. DS9's pilot has Sisko rebuilding DS9 while also rebuilding himself after his losing his wife, Dax finds the wormhole, and Kira defends it with brinksmanship "there's your wormhole Jissad!" VOY does Janeway a little sloppy by letting her take the fall for stranding the ship in the Delta quadrant but it fits with Starfleet's moral compass and the needs of the plotline for the series. Enterprise's pilot is mixed. Archer does succeed but he also does a lot of complaining that the Vulcans have been holding us back and being passive aggressive overall to Vulcans including T'Pol who actually helped him get out of spacedock. It's jarring when canon has said that they have always been our friends and we're used to the Kirk/Spock bromance. That being said later episodes were redeeming with the Vulcan/ Andorian episodes and the T'Pau arc. But your pilot is your first impression.

Awesome! Much Love! ❤ Subscribed!

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She's is an amazing actor who wasn't served by the horrible writing room for the entire run of the show. So damn unfair...

about picking people up at LAX airport, no one seem to use the cellphone parking lot.

What a very impressive woman Sonequa is.

Nicest person ever! Excellent actress and excellent character on Disco: Captain Burnham. I realize the effort to keep things positive but they should have identified the Elephant/Starship in the Room, The toxic fans that threw shade and hate to Star Trek: Discovery. Totally distasteful and ignorant whether you liked the show or not! UNACCEPTABLE.

Great show, you three! Thank you! I go way back with TREK (back to the original series and have watched every TREK in its first run) and came to DISCOVERY late (season 3) after hearing so much negative fan buzz about it. When I finally went back and watched the first two seasons, I could not for the life of me understand what all the whining and moaning was about. Yes, there were flaws, same as any TREK series, but as with those, the overall vision and energy and the solid acting and the visual beauty of the show FAR FAR FAR transcended any minor nits anyone could pick. Just love it and I hate so much that there won't be a season six (or seven). I still consider season two of Discovery one of the five best single seasons of ANY Trek series. Sonequa had one of the most beautifully-acted scenes I've EVER seen in TREK. It was one of the season two episodes (sorry, but for as much as I loved it when I saw it, I can't remember which specific episode or more than vague generalities about the scene): Burnham has just had an argument with Spock, and as she's in her quarters reeling from it, an announcement comes that she's to report to the bridge, and the way Sonequa played that moment was just amazing... just this flash on her face and through her body like a speechless "are you fcuking kidding me?" followed by her taking a breath, literally straightening her uniform and responding "I'm on my way." It was no more than two seconds, but in that moment it just felt like she'd distilled the essence of the character and the character's story and struggle and arc into ONE MOMENT. Jawdropping. It was when she became one of my favorite TREK characters and actors ever. Wow. Now I feel like I want to binge through the whole run of shows again ;) Thanks again!

I was so glad to see you having Sonequa on your show. It was simply brilliant and I want to show my appreciation by joining as a Patreon Member. Thanks.

Discovery had its flaws - what Trek show doesn't? It also had its detractors, so did TNG in its time. So did Enterprise, so our D-Con crew can relate. But Discovery relaunched the franchise for another generation, for which we can be grateful. "When do I live?" I am sure anyone who has worked long hours and run a household and raised children and tried to have a life too, can relate to that. Dom, my sincerest felicitations and best wishes 🥂 Catch you next week.

I've said this to a couple of the actors from Disco before (you know who you are guys :p) and I'll say it again. Discovery worked HARD to get me as a fan, being so different in the beginning. I genuinely felt like I was listened to as a fan every season. Sonequa is right up there with Avery for me as a captain, I have a lot of respect for everything she did and all of her work and persistence. LLAP SMG, you'll never be forgotten.

How much do we love Sonequa?!? And Dom, you are so sweet to bring up The Cruise! I'm a lifer…

keep on trekin

wait this is a new podcast? what happen to the old one??

To Sonequa: Thank you from the bottom of my heart for bringing us Michael Burnham but be forewarned, if we ever meet, I’ll ugly cry (of joy, obviously). Lots of love 🫶

Wonderful episode!

Now Paramount has cancelled itself. Hopefully Trek will continue

Discovery was a great rekindling of trek. SMG turned out to be the best leader for it, on screen and off.

Sonequa is so phenomenally talented. I only wish she could turn it off. There are glimpses when she isn't so presentational, and it is refreshing and enlightening. But she is so good and doing what she does, using her skills as a performer to perform when it's not needed that it ultimately undermines her authenticity.

I love Discovery. Obviously I'm not a typical (complaining) Trek fan. New Trek looks so beautiful; the widescreen and the effects make modern TV on par with movies these days. Actually I prefer TV these days as movies have such a limited time frame they often seem so shallow compared to how characters are allowed to develop and build personalities. Movies are like fast-food whereas TV is more like a decent three, four or five course meal (who has those!!?!). I'm not convinced Trek ever needs to be in theatres. I'd rather see them continue to produce good looking TV shows. Shame Trek fandom tends to be so stuck in the past; ironic really. Anyway, it was never a hindrance to Discovery that Mrs MG is stunningly attractive; my only complaint... that name was always an odd choice to me, and I always thought actually calling the character Michelle would have been a nice (albeit loose) call back to one of the pioneers that showed TV audiences that race is of no consequence, and Trek was at the forefront of this revolution on the small screen. Anyway, excellent show, shame it's finished. And I agree that there being no reference to Enterprise in that final scene neither makes sense, and is a little disrespectful to Trek's history (an observation rather than a full blown complaint).

I was more surprised to see Sonequa on the show than Shatner. Whoa.

Not gonna lie, this show felt like it was kind of slow-going at first. I think maybe age + race + gender differences were making everyone just a tad hesitant. But, the ball definitely started rolling and picking up speed so by the end I felt a lot of warmth emmanating from both sides.

I can't wati to see her on the big screen.

Outside of Picard and Lower Deck, post Enterprise hasn't really grabbed me.