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[Note: This article discusses plot details from the first season of Star Trek: Discovery.]


Well, now it sounds like all the cool Starfleet captains are getting their own spin-offs. (Sit down, Bakula.) THR reports that Michelle Yeoh—who spent her time off between the first and second seasons of Star Trek: Discovery reminding Hollywood she’s Michelle Goddamn Yeoh, co-starring in the massively successful Crazy Rich Asians—is in talks to get a Picard-esque Star Trek series of her own, presumably centered on the clandestine exploits of her Discovery character, Philippa Georgiou.

As viewers of the series ’ first year on CBS All Access will know, Yeoh actually ended up playing two versions of Georgiou over the course of that season: the Starfleet captain who serves as Michael Burnham’s original commanding officer, and her rogue, wily counterpart from the show’s beloved Mirror Universe. The spin-off series would presumably follow the latter character, who received an offer to join shadowy semi-evil spy organization Section 31 at the end of the season. (And if none of the preceding sentences made any sense to you, don’t worry: the Deep Space Nine nerds in our audience are eating this shit up right now.)


This is all just tentative at the moment, but if it went forward, the spin-off show would presumably take place after the show’s second season—due to premiere on January 17 of next year—and would also air on CBS All Access.