If you are looking for more insight into the character of Phillipa Georgiou tied into last month’s Star Trek: Section 31 streaming movie, IDW has you covered with a new one-shot comic. Section 31: Emperor Born is written by Alyssa Wong with art by Megan Levens and it arrives today, and we have a preview.
Section 31: Emperor Born
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Cover A by Megan Levens
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Section 31: Emperor Born arrives on Wednesday
The Section 31 one-shot comic arrives on Wednesday, February 26. You can order it or upcoming issues at TFAW. Or pick up individual digital editions at Amazon/comiXology.
Keep up with all the Star Trek comics news, previews and reviews in TrekMovie’s comics category.
No, thank you.
Who needs this??
I do as I’m a lifelong Trekkie who enjoyed the movie and i want more of Mirror Georgiou.
I’m in the same boat as you.
The appeal of this comic is not its film connection, since the film was near-universally panned. Rather, it’s a story about Georgiou’s background, and it looks like it’ll be good. Also, many fans who collect comics will welcome this. The scenes with young Georgiou were the only ones in the movie that worked, and this is built around that era.
Considering that across all the series we’ve had over the last forty years, there’s been plenty of slobbering for more adventures from the Mirror Universe. So, those folks need this. Section 31 scored some streaming ratings. If this comic sells, more will follow.
People who enjoy suffering apparently.
Non boomers
Looking forward to reading my copy when it arrives.
I hope that you enjoy it.
Pass.
Just let this whole thing die. Please, no more Georgiou, in any form. At this stage, after the disaster of Section 31, it’s just embarrassing.
Section 31 scored some viewership, so it’s not quite the disaster you imagine it is.
It did less views than all the live action shows even though it was hyped for over a year and fell out of Paramount+ top 10 after just two weeks. I wouldn’t exactly call it a hit either.
It had viewers because it’s Star Trek. But the reviews were near-universally a disaster, and CBS/Paramount know this.
I only paid $2.99 to watch it…and I still want that $2.99 back.
+1
It’s not the character’s fault.
It’s how she was written.
Not interested in a comic book story on a fictional version of Hitler.
OK
It really is time to shelve this tyrant of a character. I’m still grossed out that the movie wanted the audience to cheer for someone who murdered her own family.
I agree. At the very most she should of been killed off with maybe , * maybe* a hint of redemption. But to have her potryaed as a protagonist and basically get away with her sins scott free is disgusting.
I HOPE they finally get the message with the rock bottom reviews and less than stellar ratings trying to make a Hitler type character as the ‘hero’ in Star Trek is just not the way to go. And then to ignore all the genocide she’s caused and pretend everyone loves her was another face palm.
I still cannot believe anyone thought this was a good idea.
I just don’t understand what the writer and director were even thinking.
I mean, the first thing they show was her poisoning her family and then the audience (which not all of have even seen an episode of Discovery to know anything about her) is expected to spend the rest of the movie cheering her on as some kind of hero and savior of the galaxy.
So messed up. Especially for a Star Trek movie.
When they showed Adolf wiping out her own family, I thought ‘They actually figured out a way for people to despise her even more, bold move! And we’re only six minutes into this disaster. Trekkies are going to bury this thing.”
I honestly think when Kurtzman showed up to the first meeting of this ‘movie’, he asked the staff to give him some of the worst ideas imaginable to stuff in the story because he is clearly just tired of making more Star Trek and trying to get out of his contract. It’s cowardly, but it just might work. This is really the only explanation I have.
I guess in some twisted mirror universe way, we are supposed to have empathy for what she had to “sacrifice” to become emperor. Apparently, this comic is going to try and build on that.
I wanted San to win and kill off Adolf for good. I knew it wouldn’t happen of course but it would’ve been the one redeeming thing in the movie.
I’d be curious to know what the demand is for this, now that the film has come out.
Well, the film scored some streaming ratings, so we’ll find out soon. If it sells, expect more.
Ratings just tell you people watched it, not that it was a quality unit of entertainment.
And according to the ratings, not even that many people watched it.
This turkey has a 16% audience score on RT. Even Discovery has a 33% score lol. Nemesis even has a 49% score. That’s how bad people think this thing is when something is actually trending worse than Discovery and Nemesis.
It’s going to live in infamy until they can make something worse than that.
Honestly I wish they just made the entire movie into a comic book story and came up with something else most people would actually want to see like you know, a Star Trek based story. But for the people who liked the movie, they will hopefully like this as well.
Keep Section 31 and Mirror Universe stories in the books and novels where they should’ve stayed. Leave the TV shows and films for stories that’s about the ideals of Star Trek and actually give people hope.
How about a one shot on,, CAPTAIN Georgiou?
Now that would’ve been cool!
Absolutely not.
Giving Adolf her own bad movie and spin off comic really tells you how far NuTrek has gone off the rails.
Feels like we’re living in the Mirror Universe of really bad ideas.
In Phillipa We Trust
There were really only two ways to go with her …
(1) She goes back in time and takes the place of the prime universe Philippa just before the Klingons murdered her. Section 31 then proceeds with prime universe Philippa.
*Or*
(2) The longer she spends in the prime universe her brain structure continues to alter to the point where she rejects her terrible past and her brain has been modified to where she is no longer the emperor but some altered version, who continues to earn redemption by leading section 31 along with Ash Tyler, working behind the scenes of the original series cleaning up the couple of Kirk’s messes, and also retconning all sorts of interesting things to make it all make sense.
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But no they went with (47) on the list. Burn it all to heck.
The appeal of the film is the performance of Michelle Yeoh, who could make an ad for paper clips worth watching. However, seeing as Hoshi Sato (apparently) became Emperor without getting the memo on rehashing Hunger Games (a scenario more in keeping with how the Mirror Universe works in Star Trek), this just beats one of the dumber plot points of the film (and there are many) into the ground.