STAR TREK: Michelle Yeoh's Philippa Georgiou May Be Getting Her Own Spinoff Series

STAR TREK: Michelle Yeoh's Philippa Georgiou May Be Getting Her Own Spinoff Series

After making her debut on Star Trek: Discovery, Michelle Yeoh may soon get the chance to lead her own show, reprising the role of Philippa Georgiou for a spinoff from CBS All Access. More past the jump.

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By VHernandez - Nov 10, 2018 01:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Trek
We already knew CBS All Access was bringing Patrick Stewart (Logan) back as Captain Jean-Luc Picard for his very own spinoff, and now Deadline has revealed that Emperor Philippa Georgiou may be getting her own show to captain.

According to the report, Crazy Rich Asians star Michelle Yeoh is currently in talks to lead a stand-alone series for CBS All Access, making this yet another possible Star Trek spinoff in CBS' planned expansion of the popular sci-fi universe.

Yeoh joined the Trekverse as Captain Georgiou in the series premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, and went on to portray the character's counterpart from the Mirror universe, the former Emperor of the Terran Empire, who will be a member of Starfleet's Section 31 division in the upcoming second season.

There are currently no story details on the potential spinoff, but it's suspected that the series would focus on Georgiou's adventures as a member of the aforementioned Section 31.

Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery is scheduled to premiere on January 17, 2019
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Forthas
Forthas - 11/10/2018, 1:30 AM
I cannot understand the strategy around this. I suppose if you have a streaming service you need to fill it up with content so you might as well throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. I don't see this oversaturation turning out well.
99OPTIMISTPRIME
99OPTIMISTPRIME - 11/10/2018, 5:30 AM
@Forthas - Star Trek could use more content out there, as it tries to compete with Star Wars. If it sucks, then it's just a bunch of rich executives, wasting millions of dollars. Something they're bound to do, ANYWAY.😂
Forthas
Forthas - 11/10/2018, 10:31 AM
@WAKANDABATMANFOREVER - But don't you think that content should be more focused on the big screen? I know the film production going forward is in trouble...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-trek-4-chris-pine-chris-hemsworth-talks-fall-1133802

...but TV...especially a streaming service can only take you so far.
Kyos
Kyos - 11/10/2018, 1:46 AM
Emperor Philippa Georgiou is about the last character from Discovery I need to see more of. If they want to have a show about a cannibalistic mass murderer they'd better revive Hannibal.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 11/10/2018, 2:10 AM
@Kyos - Technically it's not cannibalism, because Saru's species aren't human (unless I'm misunderstanding you).

But I would have really preferred to see a lot more of the main Georgiou. Yeoh is an awesome Star Track Captain.
Kyos
Kyos - 11/10/2018, 2:19 AM
@Spock0Clock - Shit, you're right. What's the term for eating other intelligent species?

And yeah, Yeoh as an actual Star Trek captain was a good thing.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 11/10/2018, 7:19 AM
@Kyos - There is no term for it. (Wipes pig's blood from chin.)
Also, apparently, "cannibal" evolved from a word that just means "someone from the Caribbean".

Modern English has a real dearth of words for these kinds of eating taboos. (Animals and creatures are generally called "man-eaters", which is pretty unpoetic.) I wonder what (if any) particular word is applied to the story of Tantalus. Again, not technically cannibalism, because Tantalus cooked his son in a stew, but he fed the stew to the gods. When the gods eat their own, it's generally not treated as all that taboo, either. (Certainly less dramatic than them eating humans.)

If I were to wordsmith a term... I would probably suggest psychotroph which is just Greek for literally "soul eater", but it's pithy enough and contains the word psycho in it, so there's that modern connotation of unwellness.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 11/10/2018, 7:22 AM
Ooh, or maybe just stick with a classic: Wendigism.

"Did Bob really eat that Ewok?"

"Yep. He was a wendigo."
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 11/10/2018, 7:25 AM
Apparently "anthropophagist" is a word. But that would only apply to something that eats humans, and it's clunky as all hell.

Wendigo is just so much better.
DBLACK
DBLACK - 11/10/2018, 2:03 AM
A little disappointing if true.
Would much prefer to see a few more "S31" episodes in a season than a whole season dedicated.

Forthas
Forthas - 11/10/2018, 2:08 AM












IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 11/10/2018, 5:22 AM
They really should just do a Christopher Pike spin-off series and detail his missions as enterprise captain.
SAZMD
SAZMD - 11/10/2018, 6:11 AM
No. Please just make it stop.
rabid
rabid - 11/10/2018, 7:16 AM
Discovery is great and all, but let's not water down it's success already, especially with such a terrible character.
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 11/10/2018, 8:57 AM
Never seen the show since I don’t have CBS All-Access, but Michelle Yeoh is awesome and worthy of having shows developed around her.
Zer0squad
Zer0squad - 11/10/2018, 9:45 AM
The original Philippa Georgio was somehow infinitely more interesting than Michael Burnham, I wish the show were about her. This... meh, Mirror universe version was a bit too cringe but could have potential.
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