David Ajala (Falling Water, Nightflyers, Supergirl) has joined the cast of CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery for the upcoming 3rd season per Deadline's exclusive. In addition, Deadline has also revealed a first look photo of Ajala's character (featured above).
“STAR TREK” UNIVERSE PANEL TAKES OFF AT WARP SPEED WITH BREAKING “STAR TREK: DISCOVERY” AND “STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS” NEWS AT SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON
David Ajala Joins “Star Trek: Discovery” Cast as a Brand New Character, “Book”
Anson Mount, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn Returning to “Trek” Universe in All-New U.S.S. Enterprise-Focused “Star Trek: Short Treks”
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – July 20, 2019 – Today at San Diego Comic-Con, “Star Trek” fans were the first to learn the latest news behind the highly anticipated third season of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY and the next installments of STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS during the “Star Trek” Universe Hall H panel with cast and executive producers.
The panel kicked off with STAR TREK: DISCOVERY’s Sonequa Martin-Green revealing that season three of the CBS All Access original series just began principal photography in Iceland earlier this month. Actor David Ajala, who joins the season three cast as a brand new character, Cleveland Booker, a.k.a. Book, also made his “Star Trek” debut on the panel. Smart and capable, Book has a natural charisma and devil-may-care attitude that tends to get him into trouble as often as it gets him out.
Kurtzman also surprised the audience by bringing STAR TREK: DISCOVERY season two favorites Ethan Peck (Spock) and Rebecca Romijn (Number One) on stage to announce that they, along with Captain Christopher Pike, played by Anson Mount, will be returning to the “Star Trek” franchise with three U.S.S. Enterprise-focused STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS. Kurtzman, Peck and Romijn debuted a trailer for the upcoming STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS which revealed the titles for the six upcoming new shorts: “Ask Not,” “Q&A,” “The Trouble with Edward,” “The Girl Who Made the Stars,” “Ephaim and Dot” and “Children of Mars.”
David Ajala Joins “Star Trek: Discovery” Cast as a Brand New Character, “Book”
Anson Mount, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn Returning to “Trek” Universe in All-New U.S.S. Enterprise-Focused “Star Trek: Short Treks”
The panel kicked off with STAR TREK: DISCOVERY’s Sonequa Martin-Green revealing that season three of the CBS All Access original series just began principal photography in Iceland earlier this month. Actor David Ajala, who joins the season three cast as a brand new character, Cleveland Booker, a.k.a. Book, also made his “Star Trek” debut on the panel. Smart and capable, Book has a natural charisma and devil-may-care attitude that tends to get him into trouble as often as it gets him out.
Kurtzman also surprised the audience by bringing STAR TREK: DISCOVERY season two favorites Ethan Peck (Spock) and Rebecca Romijn (Number One) on stage to announce that they, along with Captain Christopher Pike, played by Anson Mount, will be returning to the “Star Trek” franchise with three U.S.S. Enterprise-focused STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS. Kurtzman, Peck and Romijn debuted a trailer for the upcoming STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS which revealed the titles for the six upcoming new shorts: “Ask Not,” “Q&A,” “The Trouble with Edward,” “The Girl Who Made the Stars,” “Ephaim and Dot” and “Children of Mars.”
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says we're going almost 1,000 years into the future in Season 3.
— Star Trek on CBS All Access (@startrekcbs) July 20, 2019
@iamDavidAjala will be playing a character named Book. "Book is going to be a character that is going to break the rules a little bit." - @iamDavidAjala
— Star Trek on CBS All Access (@startrekcbs) July 20, 2019
@SonequaMG just confirmed that they didn't land on Terralysium as planned.
— Star Trek on CBS All Access (@startrekcbs) July 20, 2019
"We try to make every episode a mini-movie." - @michelleparadis on creating each episode of #StarTrekDiscovery
— Star Trek on CBS All Access (@startrekcbs) July 20, 2019
There will be 6 new #ShortTreks. 2 of them will be animated, 3 will have the Enterprise crew, and 1 will be a teaser for #StarTrekPicard.
— Star Trek on CBS All Access (@startrekcbs) July 20, 2019
@Alex_Kurtzman asks the crowd if Pike, Spock, and Number one should get their own show to loud cheers from the audience. He responds, "We'll think about it."
— Star Trek on CBS All Access (@startrekcbs) July 20, 2019
