Star Trek is one of the longest-running franchises in Hollywood history with its many films, spinoffs, and TV iterations.Now, the show is making history by casting its first transgender and nonbinary actors in roles for the upcoming third season of : Discovery, which streams on CBS All-Access. “Welcome Blu del Barrio and to the !
They will be playing Adira, Star Trek's first nonbinary character, and Gray, Star Trek's first transgender character in Season 3,” the show's official Twitter handle tweeted. "Star Trek has always made a mission of giving visibility to underrepresented communities because it believes in showing people that a future without division on the basis of race, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation is entirely.