President Stacey Abrams? Star Trek: Discovery’s Real Life Politician Cameo Explained

Georgia activist Stacey Abrams played the President in Star Trek: Discovery season 4’s finale, and there were several good reasons for the politician’s cameo. In Discovery‘s season 4 finale, Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the crew of the USS Discovery saved Earth from Species 10-C’s Dark Matter Anomaly. This heroism was rewarded with a visit from the President of United Earth (Stacey Abrams), who historically agreed to have Earth re-enter the United Federation of Planets. It was a triumphant end to the Discovery crew’s attempts to reform the Federation in the broken and disparate 32nd century.