Star Trek: Discovery
Summary
Captain Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) inStar Trek : Discoveryis fortunate to be part of two family in two different eras . Burnham isDiscovery ’s central character , and the focal point on Michael as the primary jumper lead distinguishesDiscoveryfrom otherStar Trekseries . In crook , Michael ’s ample backstory is supported by multiple maternal figure , sib , and a duet of notable sexual love affairs with Lt . Ash Tyler ( Shazad Latif ) and Cleveland Booker ( David Ajala ) .
The crew of the USS Discovery is very much a constitute family , bonded by their shared experience of time traveling 930 years into the future tense . However , Michael Burnham has benefited from her relationships with a large cast of character who have counted themselves as members of her family , be they biological or adopted . In the 32nd C , Michael is now primarily on her own , although Captain Burnham does keep back one parent that she can turn to for counseling . All in all , Burnham ’s life report is a bewitching one that intersects with some of the freehanded ikon in Star Trekhistorywho Michael can call her household .
Star Trek : Discovery season 5 is the final season , but will Captain Burnham and the USS Discovery be back for time of year 6 or a Paramount+ moving-picture show ?
11Captain Michael Burnham
Daughter of humans but raised on Vulcan
InStar Trek : Discovery ’s 32nd century , Michael Burnham is Captain of the USS Discovery , the rank she waited nearly a thousand year to achieve . Michael was born in the twenty-third century and was orphaned at years 10.Young Michael was adopted by Ambassador Sarek ( James Frain ) , and was raise and train on Vulcan . Burnham link Starfleet and rose to become a Commander and First Officer aboard the USS Shenzhou under Captain Philippa Georgiou ( Michelle Yeoh ) untilshe made a fateful mistake that actuate the devastating Klingon War of 2256 - 2257 . Michael was prepared to spend the relief of her life in prison house until she was circumstantially transmit to the USS Discovery .
Michael left most of her family behind when she sentence - traveled to the thirty-second 100 .
Star Trek : Discovery ’s first 3 seasons center on Michael ’s salvation and heroism as she saved the galaxy multiple times . As a result , Burnham rise back up the membership of Starfleet from a Specialist to Commander and finally , toCaptain of the USS Discovery . Along the way , Michael was part of two families , human and Vulcan , in the 23rd and 32nd centuries . However , Michael will most of her fellowship behind when she clock time - traveled to the 32nd C . InStar Trek : Discoveryseasons 4 and 5 , Captain Burnham was less reliant on maternal figuresas she go up to the responsibilities of being a starship Captain while proceed to save the galaxy along the way .
30 years after the destruction ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , Michael Burnham is a four - wiz Starfleet Admiral .
10Dr. Gabrielle Burnham
Michael Burnham’s biological mother
Dr. Gabrielle Burnham ( Sonja Sohn ) is Michael Burnham ’s female parent . Gabrielle was an astrophysicist but she and her husband , Dr. Michael Burnham Sr . ( Kenric Green ) were secretly process for plane section 31 . The Burnhams were developing Project Daedalus , a time travelling suit . Michael lose both of her parents when she was 10 years old , believing they were murdered by Klingons on Doctari Alpha . However , Gabrielle escaped wear down the time suit and mistakenly jumped 930 years into the futurewhere she see all organic life in the galaxy wiped out by the A.I. call Control .
Gabrielle Burnham became the time - move around Red Angelas part of her effort to steer Michael and the USS Discovery to prevent Control ’s rise in the twenty-third century . InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 3 , Gabrielle re - come out in Michael ’s life in the 32nd one C . Now living on Ni’Var , the unified Vulcan and Romulan homeworld , Gabrielle join the Romulan warrior conical buoy religious sect visit the Qowat Milat . Michael and Gabrielle ’s relationship has never been easy , as Burnham ’s mother maintains a cold and distant front , but the honey between female parent and girl is understood regardless .
9Dr. Michael Burnham, Sr.
Michael Burnham’s biological father
Dr. Michael " Mike " Burnham was Michael ’s Padre and namesake . Michael Sr . was a xenoanthropologist who developed Project Daedalus for Section 31 . Mike was closer to young Michael , and he inspired his daughter with bedtime stories as seen in theStar Trek : Short Treksepisode , " The Girl Who Made The Stars . “Mike was remove by Klingons on Doctari Alpha , and the only solacement the young Michael had was that they toss off her father"quickly . "
Kenric Green is the existent - animation married man of Sonequa Martin - Green , although he played her character ’s father onStar Trek : Discovery .
8Ambassador Sarek
Michael Burnham’s adoptive father
Ambassador Sarek sweep up the 10 - year - old Michael Burnham following her parent ' deaths . As her legal protector , Sarek raise Michael on Vulcan alongside his son , Spock , who was young than Burnham . Under Sarek ’s guidance , Michael comprehend Vulcan logicand philosophy , and she attended the Vulcan Science Academy .
However , as a human aliveness on Vulcan , Michael was the quarry of Vulcan system of logic extremist . Michael was rejected from the Vulcan Expeditionary Group because she is human , and she instead joined Starfleet . Michael and Sarekwere extraordinarily secretive , andthey were even able of Vulcan brain melds over great distance .
7Amanda Grayson
Michael Burnham’s adoptive mother
Amanda Grayson ( Mia Kirshner ) , the married woman of Ambassador Sarek , was Michael ’s adopted mother who raised her alongside her own biologic son , Spock . As a fellow human being , Amanda chip in Michael the worked up love and support she was n’t allow to give to Spock , who Sarek wanted to be raised in the direction of Vulcan logic . Amanda read " Alice ’s Adventures in Wonderland " to Michael and Spock when they were both children . InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 2 , Amanda helped Michael locate Spock after he became a fugitive following his showdown with the Red Angel .
Amanda Grayson returned to assist Spock during his Vulcan engagement ritual to T’Pring ( Gia Sandhu ) inStar Trek : Strange New Worlds .
6Spock
Michael Burnham’s adoptive brother
Therelationship between Spock ( Ethan Peck ) and Michael Burnhamwas fracture when they were youngster . Michael lam away from menage to protect Sarek ’s home from Vulcan system of logic extremist targeting her , and she was cruel to Spock as a means to safeguard him . As a result , Michael and Spock were estranged even after they both joined Starfleet as adults . InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 2,Commander Burnham rescued Lt . Spock and serve restore his mind after it was damage by an encounter with the Red Angel .
Michael was forced to forget Spock behind when she left the 23rd 100 at the end ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 2 after successor relationship was repaired . In turn , Spock redacted file concern toBurnham and the USS Discoveryto protect Michael ’s secret . At the start ofStar Trek : Strange New Worlds , Spock evidence Captain Christopher Pike ( Anson Mount ) that he still misses his sister , whom he mourn as if she were bushed . InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 3,Michael was heartened to determine that Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) drop his later years press for Vulcan and Romulan reunification .
5Sybok
Sarek’s firstborn son, and another adoptive brother to Michael Burnham
Sybok ( Lawrence Luckinbill ) was Sarek ’s eldest son with a Vulcan princess , and Spock ’s honest-to-goodness half - crony . Sybok lived with Sarek for a time but then depart . Embracing his emotions over system of logic , Sybok wed Captain Angel ( Jesse James Keitel ) , becoming a space pirate and felonious under the anonym Xaverius . However , it ’s unclear whether Sybok still lived with Sarek when Michael Burnham was adopted or if he ever met her . logical system would suggestMichael was at least aware of Sybok .
Star Trek : Strange New Worldsreintroduced the younger Sybok in the mid-23rd century , which is when Michael Burnham would have known him .
InStar Trek V : The Final Frontier , Sybok returned to Spock ’s lifetime when he hijacked the USS Enterprise and its crew . Sybok took the Enterprise through the Great Barrier to the legendary world of Sha Ka Ree at the center of the galaxy . skip to fulfill his life ’s mission and rule God , Sybok learned that " God " ( George Murdock ) was a malevolent outlander manipulating the Vulcan heretic to lam his imprisonment . Sybok sacrificed himself to save Spock and his friend from the ira of " God " .
4Emperor Philippa Georgiou
Michael Burnham’s mother figure from the Mirror Universe
In the Mirror Universe , Emperor Philippa Georgiou adopted Michael Burnham and raised her as her daughter . The Mirror Burnham betray Georgiou , plat with her lover , Gabriel Lorca ( Jason Isaacs ) , to belt down and supersede the Emperor . irrespective , Georgiou wield a genuine making love for her Michael and she also felt a meanness to the earnest and idealistic Prime Universe version of Michael Burnham .
Commander Burnham get a reciprocal warmheartedness for Georgiou , in spite of herself , which was born in part from her guilt over her perfidy of thePrime Universe ’s Captain Georgiou . Michael and the Emperor had an uneasy kinship that ended when Georgiou departed the 32nd - one C timeline inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 3.Both versions of Phillipa Georgiou were surrogate mother figures for Michael , but the Emperor really was Burnham ’s mother in another macrocosm .
Emperor Georgiou come back in the made - for - cyclosis on Paramount+ movieStar Trek : subdivision 31 .
3Cleveland Booker (& Grudge)
Michael Burnham’s husband (and his queen)
Cleveland " Book " Booker ( David Ajala ) was the first someone Michael Burnham contact when she come in the 32nd century , and Michael literally clash into Book . Book and Michael spent a class traveling the galaxy together as courierswhile she waited for the USS Discovery to make it , and their romantic relationship unfold . Book ’s love affair with Michael was tested when he pursued retaliation against Species 10 - C over thedestruction of Book ’s homeworld , Kwejian , by the Dark Matter Anomaly . But Book made damages with his larger-than-life acts inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 .
At theend ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , Book and Michael adjudge their love for each other and yield their kinship a young kickoff . This let in Booker ’s pet cat and " queen " , Grudge . Book and Burnham ’s passion lasted;Star Trek : Discovery ’s finale epilogue revealed that Michael and Book married and had a boy , survive a happy biography together on Sanctuary Four .
Michael Burnham and Cleveland Booker get a happy ending in Star Trek : Discovery ’s series finale and a love story Star Trek seldom does this right field .
2Captain Leto Burnham
Michael Burnham’s son with Cleveland Booker
Captain Leto Burnham ( Sawandi Wilson ) is theson of Admiral Michael Burnham and Cleveland Booker . infix inStar Trek : Discovery ’s finale coda , Leto came to Sanctuary Four as a newly - strike Starfleet Captain , gain him a chip of his female parent ’s block . In the thirty-third hundred , Leto accompany Michael back to Federation HQ so that she could conduce the USS Discovery on its final mission . Admiral Burnham also notify thenew Captain Burnhamto seek association with his novel starship crew and to treat them as his family the way Michael did with her crew aboard the USS Discovery .
