{"id":46575,"date":"2017-08-14T11:35:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T18:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=46575"},"modified":"2017-08-14T11:35:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T18:35:39","slug":"more-on-michael-burnham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/08\/more-on-michael-burnham\/","title":{"rendered":"More On Michael Burnham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New details on the backstory of Michael Burnham have emerged, courtesy of this month&#8217;s <em>SFX Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Frain<\/strong>, who portrays Sarek in S<em>tar Trek: Discovery,<\/em> filled in readers on Burnham&#8217;s background and why Burnham became part of Sarek&#8217;s family. &#8220;We see Sarek as a younger man,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and we discover that he has been made responsible for Michael&#8217;s upbringing \u2013 her parents were killed while being hosted at the Vulcan Academy when there was a Klingon attack. So we feel responsible for her, take her in, and I raise her in my family as a Vulcan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <em>TrekMovie<\/em> provided a little more information on Burnham, filling in her educational and professional background. &#8220;I&#8217;m a xenoanthropologist,&#8221; said <strong>Sonequa Martin-Green<\/strong> (Burnham). &#8220;I also had another field of study while at the Vulcan Science Academy. I&#8217;m the only human to have gone to the Vulcan Learning Centre and the Vulcan Science Academy and excelled at that. As a xenoanthropologist, I&#8217;m also essentially and inherently a first contact specialist as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New details on the backstory of Michael Burnham have emerged, courtesy of this month&#8217;s SFX&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,8677],"tags":[9274,9106,9126],"class_list":["post-46575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-discovery","tag-burnham","tag-martin-green","tag-sarek"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BurnhamSarek081417.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BurnhamSarek081417-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BurnhamSarek081417.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BurnhamSarek081417.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BurnhamSarek081417.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BurnhamSarek081417.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BurnhamSarek081417.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BurnhamSarek081417.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BurnhamSarek081417.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/BurnhamSarek081417.gif",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-discovery\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: Discovery<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: Discovery","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46577,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46575\/revisions\/46577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}