To go where no Woman has gone before

It has been announced that S J Clarkson will become the first woman to direct a Star Trek. Clarkson has a varied track record. In her native UK she started directing soapy shows like Eastenders, Footballers Wives and Bad Girls before directing the last episode of Life on Mars. She moved to the US  where she directed such shows as Dexter, Heroes and Jessica Jones. Clarkson returned to the UK to direct the David Hare written thriller Collateral. There have been female directors on the various iterations of Star Trek on TV with the most famous being Roxann Dawson who also played the half Human - half Klingon B'Enna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager who directed episodes of both that show and Star Trek: Enterprise.