Image: CBS
Last week’s
Star Trek: Discoverylaid the groundwork to a question that has lingered in the background since the climax of its first season. This week, it answers: albeit with a response that puts one hell of an onus on Michelle Yeoh more than it does with what
Discovery has ever done with her character, the mysterious Mirror Universe Phillipa Georgiou.
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“Terra Firma, Part 2” builds on the dangerous gambit Georgiou played at the end of last week’s episode: the Michael Burnham of the Mirror Universe, her closest confidante and daughter, has betrayed her, and Emperor Georgiou responds with leniency. Well, leniency in the Mirror Universe manner, which means here that as Georgiou begs her daughter to reconsider a better path, she’s also watching her daughter be brutalized by her thuggish guards and undergo the horrifying trauma that is the Agonizer Booth. Small steps!
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Emperor Georgiou is given a chance to see if her years in a brighter world have really changed her. (Image: CBS)
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Since the final episodes of
Star Trek: Discovery’s first season, a ticking time bomb has lurked in the show’s background, a time bomb that began to tick faster when talk of series spinoffs emerged. Whatever can we do about Emperor Georgiou? The show’s decided that it’s time to answer and see if it and Michael’s experiment has paid off.