- Hi, this is Anthony Rapp.
Hey, everybody.
It's Wilson Cruz.
I'm Mary Wiseman.
I'm David Ajala.
I'm Michelle Yeoh.
I am Doug Jones.
It's Sonequa Martin-Green.
And this is "Star Trek--
Discovery A to Z."
[MUSIC PLAYING]
A is for astonishing artistry that
comes in the form of the prosthetic makeup
that goes on to me every day.
Headed up by Alchemy Labs with Glenn Hetrick and Neville Page
that then make those pieces that go on to me,
but headed up by our makeup supervisors that
have been James MacKinnon, Mike Smithson, and a host
of other people in the trailer that
turn this old, tired-looking face into a beautiful Kelpien
every day.
B for Burnham.
Burnham, Burnham, Burnham-- the best and most loyal friend
exquisitely played by Sonequa Martin-Green, and the most
dedicated Starfleet officer--
my number one.
I wonder what I'm going to pick for C?
Doctor Hugh Culber in season three
is fresh from the mycelial network in his pristine body,
and ready to create a new life with new opportunities
in any future, and ready to take care of his crew
from head to toe.
D is for "Discovery," a show that I am--
I appear on.
"Discovery" is great.
We're about to premiere our third season.
Get ready-- you're going to discover a great show.
E is for evolution.
We're a thousand years into the future,
so many things will evolve, from technology to relationships.
F. F stands for the Federation, of course.
The United Federation of Planets.
And we're going to find out what's going on
with the Federation in this new world
that we find ourselves in, in season three.
It's going to be very, very interesting indeed.
G is for the Gorn skeleton that
was a little Easter egg in Lorca's
menagerie in season one.
Did you find it, or did you have to look at some website
to find it?
H is for hilarious, much-needed comic
relief in the form of my favorite character on the show,
Tilly--
Ensign Tilly-- played by the hilarious and warm-hearted,
kind Mary Wiseman, who is all those things on and off camera.
I for Iaponius--
Philippa Georgiou Augustus Iaponius Centarius.
Never a dull moment with her because she is I for intense.
I'm going to go with the jahSepp
because without the jahSepp in season two, I wouldn't be here.
Thank God for May played by our lovely Bahia,
I get to be in season three.
So I'm going to pick J for the jahSepp.
K is for Klingon.
Gotta let 'em.
Bumpy-headed, fierce-hearted-- heartsed.
Some of my very good friends play Klingon.
Mary Chieffo and Ken Mitchell make
star turns as Klingons on my show, "Star Trek: Discovery."
Michael Dorn, beloved Klingon.
These guys are great.
They know how to party, they know how to gamble,
they definitely know how to fight,
and they have two of each organ.
L is for loyalty.
The Federation is loyal, and Cleveland Booker
is also loyal to his very personal mission.
M stands for the mycelial network.
The mycelial network is of course what we travel
when we use the Spore drive.
And I just think it's so much fun,
and it's so cool to be the only ship that's able to use
that mode of travel.
N is for NCC-1031, the registry number
of the Starship Discovery.
O is for Olatunde Osunsanmi, our executive producer who
is also our directing producer.
He has directed more episodes than anyone else on our series
to date, and he is a hands-on producer whose leadership
we lean into and depend on.
He has so been there for us throughout this entire series.
Letter P for pain and pleasure from Philippa Georgiou.
It gives me great pleasure to listen to the cries of pain
coming from my agonizer booths.
My next letter is Q, and I'm going to go with queer
because we're expanding our family this year,
and we're bringing on a non-binary character
and a trans character.
And along with Anthony and I and Michelle's pan character,
I would say that we are the queerest cast on TV.
We're here, we're queer.
Get used to it.
R is for Romulans--
the bad Vulcan.
Romulans are a lot of fun, and they cause a lot of trouble.
Tasha Yar was a Romulan in one iteration of "Trek."
Very, very fun to see her be naughty.
Romulan ale is a sort of blue drink, which I haven't yet
tried but would love to because it
appears to be blue raspberry flavored,
which is a favorite of mine.
Yeah, Romulans.
The Romulans are Vulcans who don't follow the rules.
S is for synergy.
The Federation and Cleveland Booker coming together
because of one common goal.
Pow!
T is for time travel.
Time travel.
We have truly, boldly gone where no one has gone before,
and it is an honor to create canon
because we have gone beyond any canon into the year 3188.
Yeah, very grateful for it, and consider it a privilege.
U is for the United Federation of Planets.
And if you don't know what that means,
you haven't watched enough "Star Trek."
V for Vulcan salute.
Live long and prosper.
I have had the pleasure, for the last three years,
to wear a very nice white uniform.
So I'm going to go with white uniform,
even though I can't eat or drink anything while I wear it,
and it can be the bane of my existence.
But I love it so much.
X is for Xena.
Xena means a strong and confident woman--
ladies and gentlemen, Michael Burnham
and Sonequa Martin-Green.
Y stands for you, right?
Y stands for you--
all of you who are on this journey with us.
It means a lot.
It does.
We appreciate you, and we love you.
Z is for zooming from point to point in the blank of an eye
due to the powerful Spore drive piloted by yours truly.
And that is the alphabet according to "Star Trek--
Discovery."