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3. Holly Hunter
Academy Award winner Holly Hunter, whose character is the Chancellor of Starfleet Academy and the commander of the USS Athena, spoke of her respect for the series and its legacy actors. Hunter specifically thanked our beloved Kate Mulgrew for breaking through and providing "the template" for the saga's most prominent female captain, Kathryn Janeway.
"It's fun because I'm both the captain and the chancellor," Hunter told Gooding on the blue carpet "And they're kind of oppositional characters." I have a feeling the cadets will always come first, regardless of which hat she is wearing for Starfleet. I also suspect Hunter's character, Nahla Ake, will make one of the franchise's finest additions in quite a while.