119-446: Philippa Georgiou is a fictional character appearing in the Star Trek franchise portrayed by Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh . First appearing in " The Vulcan Hello ", the pilot episode of Star Trek: Discovery , Yeoh features as a major member of the recurring cast during the first three seasons of the series, and is credited in the main titles as a "special guest star" during each of
238-553: A cult following among Trekkies greater than during its original run; by 1976, the cast described Star Trek as "the most popular series in the world". One sign of the series' growing popularity was the first Star Trek convention , which occurred on January 21–23, 1972 in New York City. Although the original expectation was that a few hundred fans would attend, several thousand turned up. Fans continue to attend similar conventions worldwide. The series' newfound success led to
357-533: A tent pole for the studio when other projects failed. The Next Generation had the highest ratings of any Star Trek series and became the most syndicated show during the last years of its original seven-season run. In response to the Next Generation 's success, Paramount released a spin-off series, Deep Space Nine , in 1993. While never as popular as the Next Generation , the series had sufficient ratings for it to last seven seasons. In January 1995,
476-414: A "lot of care" and set them up as a back door pilot for the spinoff. In 2022, Kurtzman reiterated that the show was still happening due to the already-completed scripts, but would likely have to wait until one of the five ongoing series at the time had concluded. In March 2023, Kurtzman announced that the spinoff would instead be moving forward as an "event film", and explained that he had begun converting
595-524: A Vulcan nerve pinch, but she quickly recovers and orders her to be taken to the brig as a whole fleet of Klingon vessels arrive in the system. When Klingon leader T'Kuvma makes contact, he reveals that Burnham murdered one of his warriors and, despite Georgiou asserting that the Federation comes in peace, T'Kuvma rallies his fleet to attack, causing significant damage to the Shenzhou and leading Georgiou to order
714-550: A big fan wanted to meet her while attending an NAACP dinner party: I thought it was a Trekkie, and so I said, 'Sure.' I looked across the room, and there was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walking towards me with this big grin on his face. He reached out to me and said, 'Yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan.' He said that Star Trek was the only show that he, and his wife Coretta, would allow their three little children to stay up and watch. [She told King about her plans to leave
833-625: A bomb destroying the planet would end things once and for all, stating that she would do this in exchange for freedom from Starfleet. On Qo'noS, Georgiou plants a hydro bomb into one of the volcanoes but is prevented from committing genocide by Burnham, who gives the detonator to their ally L'Rell so she can force the Klingons to unify under her leadership and end the war. Georgiou then leaves, with Burnham warning her that she better to do anything to make Starfleet come after her. Months later, Georgiou rescues L'Rell and her lover Ash Tyler from an attack by
952-550: A campaign reminiscent of the one that saved the third season of the Original Series . Paramount renewed Enterprise for a fourth season, but moved it to the Friday night death slot . Like the Original Series , Enterprise ' s ratings dropped during this time slot, and UPN canceled Enterprise at the end of its fourth season. Enterprise aired its final episode on May 13, 2005. A fan group, "Save Enterprise ", attempted to save
1071-411: A censor down to the set to measure a woman's cleavage to make sure too much of her breast wasn't showing." Roddenberry intended the show to have a progressive political agenda reflective of the emerging counter-culture of the youth movement, though he was not fully forthcoming to the networks about this. He wanted Star Trek to show what humanity might develop into, if it would learn from the lessons of
1190-485: A contest to build a medical tricorder device was announced in 2012. Ten finalists were selected in 2014, and the winner was to be selected in January 2016. However, no team managed to reach the required criteria. Star Trek also brought teleportation to popular attention with its depiction of "matter-energy transport", with the famously misquoted phrase " Beam me up, Scotty " entering the vernacular. The Star Trek replicator
1309-416: A few months after the Next Generation ended, Paramount released a fourth television series, Voyager . Star Trek production reached a peak in the mid-1990s with Deep Space Nine and Voyager airing concurrently and three of the four Next Generation -based feature films released in 1994, 1996, and 1998. By 1998, Star Trek was Paramount's most important property and the profits of "the franchise" funded
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#17328523127671428-663: A final holographic message and Georgiou's prized telescope that she bequeathed to Burnham. Some time later, following a navigation error involving Paul Stamets and his experimental spore drive technology, the USS Discovery finds itself in the Mirror Universe . Posing as her mirror universe counterpart, Burnham is shocked to discover that the tyrannical Terran Empire is ruled by the mirror version of Philippa Georgiou. Burnham confesses to Discovery captain Gabriel Lorca that she
1547-507: A five year deal with CBS Studios to expand the Star Trek franchise, and Yeoh was in talks to star in the proposed spinoff in November 2018. Kurtzman attached Discovery writers Bo Yeon Kim and Erika Lippoldt as showrunners for the spinoff, while they were working on Discovery' s second season, with production expected to begin following the completion of Discovery season three. Kurtzman gave
1666-590: A fourth is scheduled for July 2020. The first publisher of Star Trek fiction aimed at adult readers was Bantam Books . James Blish wrote adaptations of episodes of the original series in twelve volumes from 1967 to 1977; in 1970, he wrote the first original Star Trek novel published by Bantam, Spock Must Die! . Pocket Books published subsequent Star Trek novels. Prolific Star Trek novelists include Peter David , Diane Carey , Keith DeCandido , J.M. Dillard , Diane Duane , Michael Jan Friedman , and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens . Several actors from
1785-460: A full evacuation of the ship. Based on the suggestion of officer Saru , Georgiou resolves to transport a proton warhead onto the Klingon flagship using the corpse of one of their warriors. Burnham, who survives the damage dealt to the brig, warns her that killing T'Kuvma would turn him into a martyr and advises capturing him instead. Reeling from Burnham's mutiny, Georgiou berates herself for thinking she
1904-624: A human near a door who gives vague and evasive answers to their questions, with Georgiou ultimately resolving to go through the door, finding herself back in the mirror universe in her Terran emperor regalia. Speaking with mirror Tilly, she reveals it is the day of Lorca's uprising and mirror Burnham's betrayal. Georgiou states that she will bring mirror Burnham "back into the fold" rather than killing her, which Tilly questions. Reuniting with mirror Burnham, Georgiou becomes unsettled by Burnham's brutality and tells her of Lorca's plot, which Burnham feigns ignorance of, becoming suspicious when Georgiou prevents
2023-524: A local planet, where Georgiou tells Nhan that she remained on the ship to avoid being stuck with Section 31. Against orders, Georgiou follows Saru and ensign Sylvia Tilly when they go to gather supplies to help repair the ship, and saves them from a group of local mercenaries, though she is prevented from killing them by Saru. Reuniting with Burnham, who had been on her own in the future for a year, Georgiou notes that Burnham seems uncomfortable to be back in her Starfleet uniform and predicts that she has outgrown
2142-598: A lot of the Terran Empire was inspired by the Roman Empire , the names of their emperors, and information he gleaned from the book SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard . Nardino stated that Mother of the Fatherland is a play on " Father of the fatherland ", and that the remainder of Georgiou's titles are based on worlds conquered by the terrans. Regarding Emperor Georgiou's many names, Nardino stated that "Augustus"
2261-451: A malicious artificial intelligence. A phrase Gabrielle uses leads Georgiou to realize that Leland has been taken over by Control. She confronts him and they engage in combat, buying enough time for Gabrielle to flee into the timestream with the data, though Leland/Control escapes to the Section 31 ship before he could be killed. Leland/Control eventually hunts down Discovery , intent on finding
2380-628: A missing Spock , Burnham and Discovery' s new captain Christopher Pike identify a shuttle which is carrying Georgiou, who states that Section 31 have also tasked her with tracking down Spock. Section 31 boss Leland takes Spock into custody and plans to use a life-threatening memory extraction device on him, so Georgiou disables the cameras, allowing Burnham to rescue him and take him to Discovery . When Burnham asks why she would do this, Georgiou indicated that making Leland look bad would be good for her. When he confronts her, Georgiou informs him that he
2499-423: A narrative adventure video game set in the Next Generation era, was released by Dramatic Labs. Star Trek has led directly or indirectly to the creation of a number of magazines which focus either on science fiction or specifically on Star Trek . Starlog was a magazine which was founded in the 1970s. Initially, its focus was on Star Trek actors, but then it expanded its scope. Star Trek: The Magazine
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#17328523127672618-491: A new cast portraying the crew of the original show. Star Trek was a prequel of the original series set in an alternate timeline , later named the Kelvin Timeline. This gave the film and sequels freedom from the need to conform to the franchise's canonical timeline and minimized the impact these films would have on CBS's portion of the franchise. The eleventh Star Trek film's marketing campaign targeted non-fans, stating in
2737-497: A new five-year deal with CBS Television Studios to oversee and expand the Star Trek franchise on television, including serving as executive producer on Star Trek: Discovery (which he also co-showruns with Michelle Paradise ), Star Trek: Short Treks , Star Trek: Picard , and Star Trek: Lower Decks . In August 2021, Kurtzman and his production company Secret Hideout extended their overall deal with CBS Studios through 2026. In 2002, Kurtzman married Samantha Counter,
2856-542: A new set of fans to the franchise. CBS eventually sought to capitalize on this trend, and brought the franchise back to the small screen with the series Star Trek: Discovery to help launch and draw subscribers to its streaming service CBS All Access . Discovery's first season premiered on September 24, 2017. While Discovery is shown in the United States exclusively on Paramount+ (formerly CBS All Access), for its first three seasons, Netflix, in exchange for funding
2975-437: A new starship Enterprise a century after the original series; Deep Space Nine and Voyager , set in the same era as the Next Generation ; and Enterprise , set a century before the original series in the early days of human interstellar travel. The adventures of the Next Generation crew continued in four additional feature films. In 2009, the film franchise underwent a reboot , creating an alternate continuity known as
3094-553: A new starship Enterprise with a new crew. Following Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Roddenberry's role was changed from producer to creative consultant, with minimal input to the films, while being heavily involved with the creation of The Next Generation . Roddenberry died on October 24, 1991, giving executive producer Rick Berman control of the franchise. Star Trek had become known to those within Paramount as "the franchise", because of its great success and recurring role as
3213-489: A pilot, " The Cage ", starring Jeffrey Hunter as Enterprise Captain Christopher Pike . NBC rejected "The Cage", but the executives were still impressed with the concept, and made the unusual decision to commission a second pilot: " Where No Man Has Gone Before ". While the show initially enjoyed high ratings, the average rating of the show at the end of its first season dropped to 52nd out of 94 programs. Unhappy with
3332-474: A plan, Burnham and Georgiou pretended to surrender and then take out Lorca's loyalists. Georgiou then kills Lorca with her sword and, finally feeling kinship with the prime universe Burnham, offers to hold off Lorca's remaining forces and buy her time to flee back to the Discovery . Desperate to save her, Burnham grabs Georgiou as the transporter beam initializes and takes them both to the ship as it crosses back into
3451-409: A planet run by crime syndicate The Emerald Chain, with Georgiou posing as a wealthy weapons dealer and Burnham her assistant. While en route, Georgiou has visions from the mirror universe of herself over a bloodied body bag and Burnham notices Georgiou freeze again, but her concerns are dismissed. Burnham and Georgiou's cover is eventually blown and they allow themselves to get captured so that Booker and
3570-484: A portal and tells her to walk through, promising it will send her back in time to an era where the prime and mirror universes are close enough together that she can live out her days without fear of death. During a tearful goodbye, Georgiou tells Burnham that bringing her to the prime universe gave her a new life, and Burnham explains that their relationship is uniquely theirs and is unrelated to their prior relationships with prime Georgiou and mirror Burnham. As she walks into
3689-486: A prequel to the 2009 film, Star Trek: Countdown . In 2012, IDW published the first volume of Star Trek – The Newspaper Strip , featuring the work of Thomas Warkentin. As of 2020, IDW continues to produce new titles. The Star Trek franchise has numerous games in many formats. Beginning in 1967 with a board game based on the original series and continuing through today with online and DVD games, Star Trek games continue to be popular among fans. Video games based on
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3808-749: A prospective release date of 2021 or 2022 for the Georgiou series, with Yeoh confirming her involvement in December 2019. Filming of the series was delayed due to Yeoh starring in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and by the COVID-19 pandemic . Georgiou was written out of Discovery during the third season episode " Terra Firma ", which was co-writtem by Kim and Lippoldt, who stated that they had crafted her final episodes with
3927-400: A racially diverse crew. In early 1964, Roddenberry presented a brief treatment for a television series to Desilu Productions , calling it "a Wagon Train to the stars". Desilu studio head Lucille Ball was instrumental in approving production of the series. The studio worked with Roddenberry to develop the treatment into a script , which was then pitched to NBC. NBC paid to make
4046-408: A rebellious Klingon group. She maintains her cover, stating that she is a retired Starfleet captain assigned to ensure L'Rell remains in power, privately advising her to send Tyler and their baby away so they cannot be used against her. While smuggling Tyler and the child, Georgiou reveals herself to be an agent of the secret service agency Section 31 and invites Tyler to join them. While searching for
4165-411: A sequel. The studio forced Roddenberry to relinquish creative control of future sequels. The success of the sequel, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , reversed the fortunes of the franchise. While the sequel grossed less than the first movie, The Wrath of Khan ' s lower production costs made it net more profit. Paramount produced six Star Trek feature films between 1979 and 1991, each featuring
4284-420: A series of standalone mini-episodes which air between Discovery and Picard seasons. A new live-action series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , a spinoff of the second season of Discovery and prequel to the original series, premiered on May 5, 2022. Lower Decks , an animated adult comedy series, was released on August 6, 2020, on CBS All Access. Another animated series, Star Trek: Prodigy , premiered on
4403-416: A significant portion of the studio's operations. Voyager became the flagship show of the new United Paramount Network (UPN) and thus the first major network Star Trek series since the original. After Voyager ended, UPN produced Enterprise , a prequel series. Enterprise did not enjoy the high ratings of its predecessors and UPN threatened to cancel it after the series' third season. Fans launched
4522-590: A television film every two years starting with Section 31 . Many licensed products are based on the Star Trek franchise. Merchandising is very lucrative for both studio and actors; by 1986 Nimoy had earned more than $ 500,000 from royalties. Products include novels, comic books, video games, and other materials, which are generally considered non-canon . Star Trek merchandise generated $ 4 billion for Paramount by 2002. Since 1967, hundreds of original novels, short stories, and television and movie adaptations have been published. The first original Star Trek novel
4641-452: A wide range of spin-offs including games , figurines, novels , toys, and comics . From 1998 to 2008, there was a Star Trek –themed attraction in Las Vegas . At least two museum exhibits of props travel the world. The constructed language Klingon was created for the franchise. Several Star Trek parodies have been made, and viewers have produced several fan productions . Star Trek
4760-629: Is a multibillion-dollar industry, owned by Paramount Global. Gene Roddenberry sold Star Trek to NBC as a classic adventure drama; he pitched the show as " Wagon Train to the Stars" and as Horatio Hornblower in Space . The opening line, "to boldly go where no man has gone before", was taken almost verbatim from a U.S. White House booklet on space produced after the Sputnik flight in 1957. Star Trek and its spin-offs have proven highly popular in syndication and
4879-416: Is able to take advantage of Discovery' s shields being down to transport himself onto the bridge, shooting several crew members before locking himself in the science lab with the date. Georgiou successfully hacks the door panel and joins forces with security officer Nhan to "make him scream". The two women pursue Leland through the ship, engaging him in brutal combat before Georgiou is able to imprison him in
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4998-573: Is afraid about confronting the Terran Emperor due to her guilt over betraying the prime universe Georgiou. Coming face to face with Georgiou, she orders Lorca to be locked away and tortured for the rest of his life, and invites Burnham for dinner, expressing her happiness that her daughter did not die hunting him down. In private, Georgiou holds a knife to Burnham, stating that she knows that Burnham had conspired with Lorca to assassinate her and orders her to be publicly killed. Burnham then reveals that she
5117-516: Is an American filmmaker. He is best known for co-writing the scripts to Transformers (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) with his writing and producing partner Roberto Orci , and directing and co-writing The Mummy (2017). He made his directorial debut with People Like Us (2012), co-written alongside Orci and Jody Lambert. Kurtzman
5236-506: Is another sign of Georgiou's weakness. Instead of executing her, she has Burnham placed in captivity. Georgiou has a resistant Burnham continually tortured, starved, and beaten in an attempt to mentally break her and get her to reveal the names of Lorca's other conspirators and so she can return to the Empire. Tilly questions why Burnham is still alive, and Georgiou insists that she is not showing mercy. Georgiou later visits Burnham's cell while she
5355-410: Is credited in the scientific literature with inspiring the field of diatom nanotechnology . In 1976, following a letter-writing campaign, NASA named its prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise , after the fictional starship . Later, the introductory sequence to Star Trek: Enterprise included footage of this shuttle which, along with images of a naval sailing vessel called Enterprise , depicted
5474-503: Is from another universe and Georgiou demands to know how they crossed over to her universe. She reveals that the Lorca that has been in charge of Discovery is actually from the mirror universe and had been on the run since conspiring against her. Resuming his coup against her, Lorca killed a large group of Georgiou's guards, leading her to hide in her quarters with a special bracelet that blocked her life signs from appearing on sensors. Hatching
5593-476: Is imminent, as she will attempt to find an honorable death in battle. Georgiou rebuffs attempts from the crew to help her with basic tasks that she is now struggling to complete. Culber tells Burnham and Georgiou that the Control data has indicated that a potential cure is on the planet Dannus V, but that the possibility of it working is only around five percent, and Burnham promises not to hesitate in killing Georgiou if
5712-525: Is in pre-production to take the place of one of these series. Star Trek: Prodigy was removed from Paramount+ in June 2023. The series was picked up by Netflix, and season 1 was made available on December 25, 2023. A second season aired later in 2024. Paramount is also planning to create television films for Paramount+ every two years. The first of these movies, Section 31 , will star Michelle Yeoh , reprising her role as Empress Georgiou from Discovery . It
5831-573: Is known, alongside Orci, for frequently collaborating with Michael Bay and J.J. Abrams , as well as co-creating the TV series Star Trek: Discovery , Star Trek: Picard , and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . Kurtzman was born into a Jewish family and raised in Los Angeles , California . His longtime screenwriting partner Roberto Orci was his best friend in high school. Kurtzman attended Wesleyan University . Kurtzman first teamed with Orci on
5950-478: Is no longer in charge and that she knows he is responsible for killing Burnham's biological parents. When Burnham and Discovery successfully capture the illusive "Red Angel", who is revealed to be a time travelling version of Burnham's mother Gabrielle, Leland orders Georgiou and Tyler to prevent their attempt to allow Gabrielle to remain in the present, handing Georgiou a device that will steal her and Discovery' s data before self-destructing and killing her. While
6069-448: Is noted for its cultural influence beyond works of science fiction. The franchise is also notable for its progressive stances on civil rights . The Original Series included one of the first multiracial casts on US television. As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the science fiction series that would become Star Trek . Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in outer space —a so-called " Wagon Train to
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#17328523127676188-491: Is scheduled to be released in early 2025. Twelve television series make up the Star Trek franchise: The Original Series , The Animated Series , The Next Generation , Deep Space Nine , Voyager , Enterprise , Discovery , Short Treks , Picard , Lower Decks , Prodigy , and Strange New Worlds . All series in total amount to 937 episodes across 49 seasons of television. Paramount Pictures has produced thirteen Star Trek feature films. The first six films continue
6307-625: Is unconscious and reminisces about her childhood, confessing that she was sad when Burnham outgrew her night terrors and no longer relied on her, leaving a symbolic globe of fireflies to convince Burnham to trust her again. Burnham later reaffirms her loyalty to Georgiou and offers to kill all of the co-conspirators personally as proof she can be trusted. In her quarters, Georgiou confesses to mirror Saru, that she feels things are going to plan, and encourages him not to fear upcoming biological change, stating that it will make him stronger. The Empire later tracks down another of Lorca's allies and Georgiou orders
6426-507: The Star Wars franchise being rivals in the science fiction genre with many fans and scholars. The Star Trek franchise inspired some designers of technologies, the Palm PDA and the handheld mobile phone. Michael Jones, Chief technologist of Google Earth , has cited the tricorder 's mapping capability as one inspiration in the development of Keyhole/Google Earth. The Tricorder X Prize ,
6545-472: The Kelvin timeline; three films have been set in this continuity. The newest Star Trek television revival, beginning in 2017, includes the series Discovery , Picard , Short Treks , Lower Decks , Prodigy , and Strange New Worlds , streaming on digital platforms. Star Trek has been a cult phenomenon for decades. Fans of the franchise are called " Trekkies " or "Trekkers". The franchise spans
6664-404: The Original Series cast in their original roles. In 1987, Paramount responded to the popularity of Star Trek feature films by bringing the franchise back to television with Star Trek: The Next Generation . Paramount chose to distribute the new series as a first-run syndication show rather than a network program. The series was set a century after the original, following the adventures of
6783-408: The Original Series , 11 spin-off television series, and a film franchise ; further adaptations also exist in several media. After the conclusion of the Original Series , the adventures of its characters continued in the 22-episode Star Trek: The Animated Series and six feature films. A television revival beginning in the 1980s saw four spinoff series: The Next Generation , following the crew of
6902-543: The Star Trek franchise beyond Discovery to several new series, miniseries, and animated series. Kurtzman wanted to "open this world up" and create multiple series set in the same universe but with their own "unique storytelling and distinct cinematic feel", an approach that he compared to the Marvel Cinematic Universe . However, the franchise would not tell a single story across multiple series, allowing audiences to watch each series without having to see all of
7021-445: The 23rd century, on a mission "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before ". In creating Star Trek , Roddenberry was inspired by C. S. Forester 's Horatio Hornblower series of novels, Jonathan Swift 's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels , the 1956 film Forbidden Planet , and television westerns such as Wagon Train . The Star Trek canon includes
7140-502: The Emerald Chain's slaves can use the distraction to escape. While Burnham and Georgiou fight their captors, Georgiou is incapacitated by another vision and only comes to just in time to save Burnham from being killed. Once they return to Discovery , Georgiou admits to Burnham that she does not know what is happening to her. Eventually encouraged to seek support from Dr. Culber , she allows him to complete his tests but later steals one of
7259-466: The Federation now that she is used to living by her own rules. The Discovery reunites with the remains of Starfleet, which was decimated by a mysterious event known as "the Burn", and their scanners immediately identify her as a Terran and proves unfazed by the holographic interrogators. After disabling the holograms, an elderly Starfleet officer tells Georgiou he has been fascinated by the Terran Empire since he
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#17328523127677378-551: The Terran emperor is revealed to be the Mirror Universe version of Georgiou, her full title is stated as "Her most Imperial Majesty, Mother of the Fatherland, Overlord of Vulcan, Dominus of Kronos, Regina Andor, Philippa Georgiou Augustus Iaponius Centarius". Jordon Nardino , who wrote the first season's twelfth episode "Vaulting Ambition", explained his creative process behind Georgiou's full name and titles in this universe, noting that
7497-532: The US space program , working in this quality for NASA from the late 1970s until the late 1980s. In 2020, the US effort to develop a vaccine to protect against COVID-19 was named Operation Warp Speed , which was suggested by a Star Trek fan, Peter Marks. Marks leads the unit at the Food and Drug Administration which approves vaccines and therapies. Alex Kurtzman Alexander Hilary Kurtzman (born September 7, 1973)
7616-487: The actualization of Star Trek's holodeck in the future by making extensive use of artificial intelligence and cyborgs. Star Trek -based comics have been issued almost continuously since 1967, published by Marvel , DC , Malibu , Wildstorm , and Gold Key , among others. In 2009, Tokyopop produced an anthology of Next Generation -based stories presented in the style of Japanese manga . In 2006, IDW Publishing secured publishing rights to Star Trek comics and issued
7735-481: The advancement of human transportation technology. Beyond Star Trek 's fictional innovations, its contributions to television history included a multicultural and multiracial cast. While more common in subsequent years, in the 1960s it was controversial to feature an Enterprise crew that included a Japanese helmsman, a Russian navigator, and a black female communications officer. Captain Kirk's and Lt. Uhura's kiss, in
7854-523: The adventures of the cast of the Original Series ; the seventh film, Generations , was intended as a transition from original cast to the cast of the Next Generation ; the next three films focused completely on the Next Generation cast. The eleventh film was widely considered to be a reboot of the franchise, despite being a continuation set in an alternate timeline known as the "Kelvin Timeline". Additionally, streaming service Paramount+ intends to release
7973-573: The beginning of the series, Captain Georgiou was given command of the USS Shenzhou and visited the planet Vulcan, where she recruited Michael Burnham as her new officer at the request of her adoptive father Sarek with whom she was previously acquainted. As a captain, Georgiou fostered a relaxed and encouraging environment on the Shenzhou and enjoyed a friendly rivalry with her crew while still knowing when to set boundaries and asset her authority appropriately. In 2256, Georgiou and Burnham journeyed to
8092-475: The box office. CBS turned down several proposals in the mid-2000s to restart the franchise on the small screen. Proposals included pitches from film director Bryan Singer , Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski , and Trek actors Jonathan Frakes and William Shatner. While CBS was not creating new Star Trek for network television, the ease of access to Star Trek content on new streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video introduced
8211-442: The conflicts and political dimensions of Star Trek are allegories of contemporary cultural realities. The Original Series addressed issues of the 1960s, just as later spin-offs have tackled issues of their respective decades. Issues depicted in the various series include war and peace, the value of personal loyalty, authoritarianism , imperialism , class warfare, economics, racism, religion, human rights, sexism , feminism, and
8330-438: The cure is unsuccessful. Georgiou and Burnham spar and Burnham convinces her that the only way she will find honor is to face her fate on Dannus V, with Georgiou exchanging goodbyes with Saru and Tilly before beaming down to the snowy planet. While they search, Georgiou explains that she adopted the mirror universe Burnham as she was the only child content with being her own salvation rather than asking for help. They eventually find
8449-466: The data so that Control can use it to end all organic life. Georgiou arrives on the Discovery to assist, and condemns Burnham's plan to send herself into the future to ensure Control never receives the data. Before heading to the USS Enterprise , Pike tells Georgiou that, while he doesn't know what to make of her, he is glad they are on the same side. Georgiou then confesses that she is secretly from
8568-399: The data upload is occurring, Gabrielle tells Georgiou that she is aware that she is from the mirror universe, and that she has seen her sacrifice herself for Burnham in the future. Before she leaves, Gabrielle asks Georgiou to make a promise "mother to mother" that she will protect Burnham, and tells Georgiou that she is unable to do this herself because she must keep the data safe from Control,
8687-429: The death of a servant (mirror Saru) by claiming them as her own. Watching an elaborate celebration of her ruthless leadership of the Terran Empire, Georgiou is visibly unsettled, but is able to prevent an assassination attempt by mirror Stamets and warns of a plot against her life. Georgiou later tells Burnham she knows she is working with Lorca and tells her to confess in exchange for sparing her life, which Burnham retorts
8806-420: The electrodes and finds out she is dying. Dr. Culber reveals that time travel can cause a person's molecules to become unstable but, since Georgiou is additionally from a different dimension that is drifting further and further from the prime universe, she is experience an unprecedented impact on her health and that her condition is rapidly deteriorating. Culber warns the others not to tell Georgiou that her death
8925-405: The episode " Plato's Stepchildren ", was also daring, and is often mis-cited as being American television's first scripted, interracial kiss, even though several other interracial kisses ( e.g. on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour ) predated this one. Nichelle Nichols, who played the communications officer, said that the day after she told Roddenberry of her plan to leave the series, she was told
9044-533: The episodes she appears in. The character is introduced as the respected captain of the USS Shenzhou and a maternal figure to series protagonist Michael Burnham (played by Sonequa Martin-Green ). Beginning in " The Wolf Inside ", the eleventh episode of the show's first season , Yeoh portrays an alternate version of Georgiou from the Mirror Universe , a despotic and ruthless emperor of the Terran Empire . The character makes her final appearance in " Terra Firma ",
9163-479: The film did not earn as much in the North American box office as its predecessor, internationally, in terms of box office receipts, Into Darkness is the most successful of the franchise. The thirteenth film, Star Trek Beyond , was released on July 22, 2016. The film had many pre-production problems and its script went through several rewrites. While receiving positive reviews, Star Trek Beyond disappointed in
9282-425: The film's advertisements that "this is not your father's Star Trek ". The film earned considerable critical and financial success, grossing (in inflation-adjusted dollars) more box office sales than any previous Star Trek film. The plaudits include the franchise's first Academy Award (for makeup ). Two sequels were released. The first sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness , premiered in the spring of 2013. While
9401-481: The future of the franchise. Paramount relieved Berman, the franchise producer, of control of Star Trek . In 2007, Paramount hired a new creative team to reinvigorate the franchise on the big screen. Writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and producer J. J. Abrams had the freedom to reinvent the feel of the franchise. The team created the franchise's eleventh film, Star Trek , releasing it in May 2009. The film featured
9520-560: The homeworld of pre-spaceflight species the Crepusculans, in an effort to prevent a drought that would wipe out their civilization. Following this, the Shenzhou is dispatched to a binary star system to investigate a damaged relay and Burnham identifies an unknown object of Klingon origin, though Georgiou is reluctant to believe this. A Klingon ship then arrives and Georgiou stands by Starfleet orders to not engage despite Burnham's protests. Burnham ultimately mutinies and disables Georgiou with
9639-415: The idea of reviving the franchise. Filmation with Paramount Television produced the first post–original series show, Star Trek: The Animated Series , featuring the cast of the original series reprising their roles. It ran on NBC for 22 half-hour episodes over two seasons on Saturday mornings from 1973 to 1974. Although short-lived, typical for animated productions in that time slot during that period,
9758-466: The mirror universe, leading Pike to wink and respond "what mirror universe?" before being transported away. The Discovery and Enterprise then prepare to battle with Leland/Control's Section 31 fleet, and Georgiou mocks Leland, noting that everyone hates him, but he responded by unleashing a host of new ships to greatly outnumber those of Starfleet. Georgiou encourages Saru to invite Leland on board so she can get her revenge and, though Saru refuses, Leland
9877-473: The most recognizable and highest-grossing media franchises of all time . The franchise began with Star Trek: The Original Series , which premiered on September 6, 1966, on Canada's CTV network. In the US it debuted on September 8, 1966, on NBC . The series followed the voyages of the crew of the starship USS Enterprise , a space exploration vessel built by the United Federation of Planets in
9996-596: The others. CBS and Kurtzman refer to this expanded franchise as the Star Trek Universe . The second series of the expansion of the Star Trek Universe, Star Trek: Picard , features Patrick Stewart reprising the character Jean-Luc Picard from The Next Generation . Picard premiered on CBS All Access on January 23, 2020. Unlike Discovery , Amazon Prime Video streams Picard internationally. CBS has also released two seasons of Star Trek: Short Treks ,
10115-642: The past, most specifically by ending violence. An extreme example is the alien species known as the Vulcans , who had a violent past but learned to control their emotions. Roddenberry also gave Star Trek an anti-war message and depicted the United Federation of Planets as an ideal, optimistic version of the United Nations. His efforts were opposed by the network because of concerns over marketability, e.g., they opposed Roddenberry's insistence that Enterprise have
10234-451: The pilot, Kurtzman served as consulting producer on the show for the remainder of its run. They then co-wrote the 2009 film Star Trek . In 2011, Forbes magazine described Orci and Kurtzman as "Hollywood's Secret Weapons" as, over the course of the previous six years, their films had grossed a combined total of over $ 3 billion at the box office. The partnership also wrote People Like Us , originally known as Welcome to People , which
10353-535: The portal, Burnham offers a Vulcan salute, while Georgiou responds with a Terran one before disappearing. Later on the Discovery , the crew toast to Georgiou. Star Trek Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry , which began with the series of the same name and became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon . Since its creation, the franchise has expanded into various films , television series , video games , novels , and comic books , and it has become one of
10472-437: The prime universe. Furious at being denied an honorable death, Georgiou demands to return to the mirror universe, but Burnham insists to Starfleet command that she be granted political asylum and they assert to use her knowledge of conquest to ascertain how to defeat the Klingons and end the war. To Burnham, she recommends attacking the planetary defense systems of their homeworld of Qo'noS , while privately admitting to Sarek that
10591-431: The production costs of the show, owned the international screening rights for the show. This Netflix distribution and production deal ended right before the fourth season premiere of Discovery in November 2021. Discovery has since been exclusive to Paramount Global owned platforms. In June 2018, after becoming sole showrunner of Discovery , Kurtzman signed a five-year overall deal with CBS Television Studios to expand
10710-425: The reactor room for the spore drive. She then magnetizes it, gleefully telling him that it will be painful and watching as Leland is killed and Control is neutralized. Despite this, Burnham is adamant that the data be ferried to the future to keep it safe from being searched for again, and Georgiou, along with several members of the Discovery crew, agree to join her. The Discovery travels to 3189 and crash lands on
10829-553: The rebranded service Paramount+ first on October 28, 2021, and on December 17, 2021, on Nickelodeon . Prodigy is the first Star Trek series to specifically target younger audiences, and is the franchise's first fully computer animated series. Star Trek saturation would hit a new peak in 2022, with five Star Trek series airing in the same year. The Star Trek: Picard series finale aired in April 2023. Discovery's series finale aired in May 2024. A Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series
10948-473: The role of technology. Roddenberry stated: "[By creating] a new world with new rules, I could make statements about sex, religion, Vietnam , politics, and intercontinental missiles. Indeed, we did make them on Star Trek : we were sending messages and fortunately they all got by the network. If you talked about purple people on a far off planet, they (the television network) never really caught on. They were more concerned about cleavage. They actually would send
11067-405: The role, she worked closely with showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg , pilot director David Semel , and writer Ted Sullivan to get a feel for the character and to understand some of Georgiou's backstory. Yeoh described her as a "very compassionate person" despite her experiences of war and conflict and that her belief in the "goodness of humanity" is what drew her to the part. When
11186-531: The scripts in mid-2022 once he realized that Yeoh could potentially win an Oscar for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once which would limit her schedule. Yeoh subsequently won the Academy Award for Best Actress , and the film, Star Trek: Section 31 began filming in January 2024 following the conclusion of the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike and 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike . Prior to
11305-405: The series and tried to raise $ 30 million to privately finance a fifth season of Enterprise . Though the effort garnered considerable press, the fan drive failed to save the series. The cancellation of Enterprise ended an eighteen-year continuous production run of Star Trek programming on television. The poor box office performance in 2002 of the film Nemesis cast an uncertain light upon
11424-463: The series garnered the franchise's only Emmy Award in a "Best Series" category—specifically Outstanding Entertainment Children's Series ; later Emmy awards for the franchise would be in technical categories. Paramount Pictures and Roddenberry began developing a new series, Star Trek: Phase II , in May 1975 in response to the franchise's newfound popularity. Work on the series ended when the proposed Paramount Television Service folded. Following
11543-435: The series include Star Trek: Legacy and Star Trek: Conquest . An MMORPG based on Star Trek called Star Trek Online was developed by Cryptic Studios and published by Perfect World . It is set during the Next Generation era, about 30 years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis . The most recent video game was set in the alternate timeline from Abrams's Star Trek . On April 23, 2023, Star Trek: Resurgence ,
11662-414: The series.] I never got to tell him why, because he said, 'You can't. You're part of history.' After the show, Nichols used this public standing to speak for women and people of color and against their exclusion from the US human space program; NASA reacted by asking her to find people for its future Space Shuttle program. Nichols proceeded and successfully brought the first non-white people and women into
11781-434: The ship to be disabled and the traitor kept alive. Burnham kills the man one he is brought to them before turning the gun on Georgiou, who encourages her to make a different choice and stand down. They engage in a knife fight, with Georgiou fighting defensively so as not to injure Burnham, refusing to kill her even when gaining the upper hand. Eventually, she is left no choice and apologizes as she stabs Burnham with her sword as
11900-506: The show's ratings, NBC threatened to cancel the show during its second season. The show's fan base , led by Bjo Trimble , conducted an unprecedented letter-writing campaign, petitioning the network to keep the show on the air. NBC renewed the show, but moved it from primetime to the " Friday night death slot ", and substantially reduced its budget. In protest, Roddenberry resigned as producer and reduced his direct involvement in Star Trek , which led to Fred Freiberger becoming producer for
12019-475: The show's third and final season. Despite another letter-writing campaign, NBC canceled the series after three seasons and 79 episodes. After the original series was canceled, Desilu, which by then had been renamed Paramount Television , licensed the broadcast syndication rights to help recoup the production losses. Reruns began in late 1969, and by the late 1970s the series aired in over 150 domestic and 60 international markets. This helped Star Trek develop
12138-555: The stars"—he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan Swift 's Gulliver's Travels , intending each episode to act on two levels: as a suspenseful adventure story and as a morality tale. Most Star Trek stories depict the adventures of humans and aliens who serve in Starfleet , the space-borne humanitarian and peacekeeping armada of the United Federation of Planets . The protagonists have altruistic values, and must apply these ideals to difficult dilemmas. Many of
12257-509: The success of the science fiction movies Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Paramount adapted the planned pilot episode of Phase II into the feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture . The film opened in North America on December 7, 1979, with mixed reviews from critics. The film earned $ 139 million worldwide, below expectations but enough for Paramount to create
12376-570: The syndicated series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys , for the television unit of Pacific Renaissance Pictures, then operating out of Universal International . After they produced several storylines to cope with the absence of lead actor Kevin Sorbo following a stroke that Sorbo had suffered during the fourth season, Kurtzman and Orci, both aged 24, were placed in charge of the show. They moved into films after they were asked to rewrite Michael Bay 's The Island . The film earned nearly $ 163 million at
12495-507: The television series have also written or co-written books featuring their respective characters: William Shatner , John de Lancie , Andrew J. Robinson , J. G. Hertzler and Armin Shimerman . Voyager producer Jeri Taylor wrote two novels detailing the personal histories of Voyager characters. Screenplay writers David Gerrold , D. C. Fontana , and Melinda Snodgrass have also penned books. A 2014 scholarly work Newton Lee discussed
12614-503: The time, was rumored to be one of two female leads in Star Trek: Discovery , and was captain of the Shenzhou . The character was later renamed Philippa Georgiou. Discussing the character, Yeoh described Georgiou as an explorer who "loved the universe" and particularly "the possibility of seeing new stars", but also someone who "has seen the horrors of war". She felt that, while the relationship between Georgiou and protagonist Burnham
12733-443: The two characters in some way despite Georgiou being Chinese-Malaysian like Yeoh. "Centaurius" was chosen to reflect the first system colonised by the terrans. Even during production of Discovery' s first season, Yeoh expressed interest in starring in a spinoff series focusing on Georgiou to executive producer Alex Kurtzman , noting that she loved playing the character and wanted to be a role model to other Asian women. While Kurtzman
12852-505: The two lay dying side by side. Georgiou then wakes up back on Dannus V, with prime universe Burnham revealing she has only been unconscious for a few minutes. The mysterious man reveals himself to be a Guardian of Forever , and tells Georgiou he was testing her to see whether she would make better choices following her time in this universe and deserved a second chance at life. He notes that, despite ultimately having to kill her Burnham again, she attempted to make peace and saved Saru. He summons
12971-433: The two-part ninth and tenth episodes of Discovery season three . Yeoh will reprise her role as Georgiou in the film Star Trek: Section 31 , slated for release in 2025. In November 2016, it was rumored that Yeoh had been cast in Star Trek: Discovery , which was later confirmed by series writer and consulting producer Nicholas Meyer . Initial reports indicated that she would appear as a character named "Han Bo" who, at
13090-481: The worldwide box office, on a budget of $ 126 million, which was enough of a success that they were brought in to write Bay's Transformers , which earned $ 710 million. Though The Island , Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were not particularly well received by critics, the three films earned a combined $ 1.7 billion. They co-created the Fox TV series Fringe in 2008 along with J. J. Abrams . After
13209-471: Was Mission to Horatius by Mack Reynolds , which was published in hardcover by Whitman Books in 1968. In 1968, Gene Roddenberry cooperated with Stephen Edward Poe, writing as Stephen Whitfield, on the nonfiction book The Making of Star Trek for Ballantine Books . Among the most recent is the Star Trek Collection of Little Golden Books . Three titles were published by Random House in 2019,
13328-517: Was Kurtzman's theatrical directorial debut. Kurtzman has frequently worked with a tight-knit group of film professionals which include J. J. Abrams , Damon Lindelof , Adam Horowitz , Roberto Orci , Edward Kitsis , Andre Nemec , Josh Appelbaum , Jeff Pinkner , and Bryan Burk . In April 2014, both Orci and Kurtzman confirmed to Variety that they would no longer work together on film projects; they added that they would still work together—but only on television projects. In 2018, Kurtzman signed
13447-505: Was a boy, but reveals that it fell some time ago, a revelation with rattles her. He adds that the prime and mirrors universes have gradually separated over time and that no one has crossed between them in over five hundred years, meaning she is truly alone. Back on Discovery , Burnham finds Georgiou standing but unresponsive, something she brushes off when Burnham is finally able to rouse her. Burnham later recruits Georgiou for an unsanctioned mission to rescue her lover Cleveland Booker from
13566-566: Was a magazine published in the U.S. that ceased publication in 2003. Star Trek Magazine , originally published as Star Trek Monthly by Titan Magazines for the United Kingdom market, began in February 1995. The magazine has since expanded to worldwide distribution under the name Star Trek Explorer . Other magazines through the years included professional, as well as magazines published by fans, or fanzines . The Star Trek media franchise
13685-433: Was broadcast worldwide. The show's cultural impact goes far beyond its longevity and profitability. Star Trek conventions have become popular among its fans, who call themselves " trekkies " or "trekkers". An entire subculture has grown up around the franchise, which was documented in the film Trekkies . Star Trek was ranked most popular cult show by TV Guide . The franchise has also garnered many comparisons of
13804-458: Was enthusiastic, he was unsure at the time whether this would be feasible since Discovery had yet to be released. Following positive feedback to Yeoh's character, the writers began exploring the Starfleet black ops organization Section 31 as part of her storyline during season two , leading to further discussions around a potential spinoff. After becoming showrunner of Discovery , Kurtzman signed
13923-463: Was professional, it was also "multilayered" and included a "mother/daughter" dynamic. Yeoh chose to retain her Chinese Malaysian accent for the role,and also chose her own decorations for Georgiou's ready room, including Malaysian puppets and a bottle of Chateau Picard wine (a reference to Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation ). She explained that, while preparing to take on
14042-448: Was ready for a command position and states that Burnham's Vulcan upbringing has clouded her humanity. Despite this, she allows Burnham to join her on the flagship, where Georgiou engages T'Kuvma in hand-to-hand combat. Though she fought valiantly, Georgiou was killed and Burnham was unable to recover her body before being transported back to the Shenzhou . Six months after her death, Burnham received her last will and testament which included
14161-580: Was selected because the Terrans see themselves as inheritors of the Roman Empire so their Emperors take the title of Rome's first Emperor . "Iaponius" (the latin word for Japanese), is a reference to Hoshi Sato (played by Linda Park ), a character who appeared in Star Trek: Enterprise who named herself empress of the Terran Empire, with Nardino believing that Georgiou would have chosen this to connect
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