Star Trek: Starfleet Academy star Kerrice Brooks wasn’t all that within the Star Trek franchise whereas rising up.
Throughout a February 2026 interview onThe Kelly Clarkson Present, alongside fellow Star Trek: Starfleet Academy stars Holly Hunter, George Hawkins, and Sandro Rosta, Brooks stated that she “tried to not” watch Star Trek. The Promenade star defined that she “was making an attempt to be like a kind of punk rock children.”
“If my household favored it, then I wasn’t gonna prefer it. So it took me a very long time to observe [Star Trek]. Like, genuinely, it took me a very long time to observe that,” stated Brooks through the interview.
As well as, Brooks, who performs a hologram SAM (Sequence Acclimation Mil), additionally stated she initially wasn’t certain if she’d “see [herself] represented on the display” when watching a Star Trek present or movie.
“After which once I noticed Sonequa [Martin-Green]within the Toni Braxton wig,” continued Brooks, in reference to Martin-Inexperienced’s character, Michael Burnham, in Star Trek: Discovery.
Kerrice Brooks Shared Which Previous ‘Star Trek’ Characters Impressed SAM
In the course of the Kelly Clarkson Present interview, Brooks shared some details about her character on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, which premiered in January 2026.
“She is a hologram, she’s the primary of her sort. She’s at this college. She’s primarily created to type of like be a spy for our residence world, to allow them to know if it is secure or not, after which report again to my individuals and say, ‘Avoid him. He has allergy symptoms,'” quipped Brooks through the interview.
Whereas talking to Comedian Ebook Assets in January 2026, Brooks shared which previous Star Trek character impressed her portrayal of SAM. Brooks stated that Emergency Medical Hologram, often known as The Physician, performed by Robert Picardo, in Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, was a supply of inspiration. As well as, Brooks “drew from” the characters Seven of 9, performed byJeri Ryan, the youthful model of Jake Sisko, performed by Cirroc Lofton in Star Trek: Deep House 9, and the famed Vulcan, Surak.
