WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.167
(dramatic music)

00:00:06.089 --> 00:00:08.174
- [Michelle] Writing anything for Sonequa is

00:00:08.174 --> 00:00:10.760
just amazing, because she can do anything.

00:00:10.760 --> 00:00:12.095
Alex says this a lot, too.

00:00:12.095 --> 00:00:13.263
She can just do anything.

00:00:13.263 --> 00:00:15.181
You can give her anything, and she'll just -

00:00:15.348 --> 00:00:16.307
she's great.

00:00:16.307 --> 00:00:18.143
I'm talking about her like she's not here.

00:00:18.143 --> 00:00:20.020
She's right here, though.

00:00:20.020 --> 00:00:22.897
We've talked, and Sonequa's talked about this, as well,

00:00:22.897 --> 00:00:24.649
that Burnham was always going

00:00:24.649 --> 00:00:26.443
to be in the Captain's chair.

00:00:26.443 --> 00:00:28.737
It's been a journey to take her there,

00:00:28.737 --> 00:00:30.447
and it's been wonderful getting to be

00:00:30.447 --> 00:00:32.949
a part of writing that journey

00:00:32.949 --> 00:00:34.951
since I joined the show.

00:00:35.452 --> 00:00:36.703
Putting her in the Captain's chair,

00:00:36.703 --> 00:00:38.329
there's very much the feeling

00:00:38.329 --> 00:00:40.915
"She's earned it, she's ready to be there,"

00:00:40.915 --> 00:00:42.959
and yet the character doesn't stop growing.

00:00:42.959 --> 00:00:44.961
So, one of the cool things we got to ask

00:00:44.961 --> 00:00:46.546
ourselves this season is,

00:00:46.546 --> 00:00:49.257
"If this is Burnham's first season in the Captain's chair,

00:00:49.257 --> 00:00:50.467
or first time in the Captain’s chair,

00:00:50.467 --> 00:00:51.968
what is that journey for her?"

00:00:51.968 --> 00:00:54.679
And what is each episode-as-a-Captain's journey?

00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:56.306
And those things were really cool

00:00:56.306 --> 00:00:57.891
to get to explore.

00:00:57.891 --> 00:01:00.101
And it was really awesome to get

00:01:00.101 --> 00:01:01.227
to watch her do that.

00:01:02.103 --> 00:01:03.146
(Burnham sighs)

00:01:03.146 --> 00:01:05.106
- Well, that was a hell of a thing.

00:01:05.106 --> 00:01:07.275
- [Sonequa] It means so many things to me

00:01:07.275 --> 00:01:09.611
in so many different ways, right?

00:01:09.611 --> 00:01:11.780
It means something to me as a Black woman,

00:01:11.780 --> 00:01:13.573
obviously, in this country.

00:01:13.573 --> 00:01:16.076
It means something to me as an actor.

00:01:16.076 --> 00:01:18.828
It means something to me as a mother,

00:01:18.828 --> 00:01:20.663
who now has a daughter.

00:01:21.122 --> 00:01:22.999
I can't quite put it into words.

00:01:22.999 --> 00:01:25.168
Or, at least, when I try, I don't quite get it.

00:01:25.710 --> 00:01:27.462
I feel like whenever I do say

00:01:27.462 --> 00:01:28.463
something about it,

00:01:28.463 --> 00:01:29.756
I look back on it and I go,

00:01:29.756 --> 00:01:30.965
"That wasn't enough!

00:01:30.965 --> 00:01:32.383
I didn't say enough."

00:01:32.383 --> 00:01:33.802
I never feel like I can say enough.

00:01:33.802 --> 00:01:35.512
Because I do get it, and

00:01:35.512 --> 00:01:38.098
I do cry very often about it.

00:01:38.932 --> 00:01:42.018
(Star Trek theme)

00:01:43.686 --> 00:01:44.896
- Let’s fly.