Star Trek is warp-speeding to the future of LGBT+ representation by including its first trans and non-binary characters. Both will appear in the new series of Star Trek: Discovery on CBS All Access next month.
Trans actor Ian Alexander will play the trans character, Gray. Meanwhile actor Blu del Barrio, who doesn’t identify as male or female, will play non-binary character Adira.
Adria is ‘highly intelligent with a confidence and self-assurance well beyond their years’. The character will form a bond with Lt Commander Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Dr Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz).
The pair made history as the franchise’s first openly gay characters. Barrio said: ‘Adira is a wonderfully complex character.