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Star Trek: Discovery's Story Team Discuss the Spirit of Captain Georgiou in This Exclusive Clip

Although Michelle Yeoh’s stalwart Captain Phillipa Georgiou didn’t make it out of Star Trek: Discovery’s opening episodes alive, her spirit—and more literally, even her mirror self later on—was one of the driving forces behind Michael Burnham’s story. See just how important that was to both Yeoh and Discovery’s creative staff in this new clip.

To celebrate the first season of Star Trek: Discovery’s impending release on Blu-ray and DVD, io9 has an exclusive snippet from one of the new behind-the-scenes featurettes, “A Woman’s Journey”—just one of 10 that is included in the new release. Check it out below, with Yeoh and executive story editors Bo Yeon Kim and Erika Lippoldt discussing the ramifications of Captain Georgiou’s death on Burnham—and how Yeoh’s performance as the noble captain influenced her continued presence on the show.

(This story was also great: It's Mary Wiseman's Star Trek Galaxy, and We're Just Living in It [interview] )

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'Star Trek: Discovery' Showrunners Out; Alex Kurtzman to Take Over

Staff come and staff go, what's interesting here is the reason for the change -- budget blow outs, but also:

Insiders also stress that Berg and Harberts became increasingly abusive to the Discovery writing staff, with the latter said to have leaned across the writers' room table while shouting an expletive at a member of the show's staff. Multiple writers are said to have been uncomfortable working on the series and had threatened to file a complaint with human resources or quit the series altogether before informing Kurtzman of the issues surrounding Berg and Harberts. After hearing rumors of HR complaints, Harberts is said to have threatened the staff to keep concerns with the production an internal matter.

Stories about this sort of behaviour -- and worse -- have come out of every single iteration of Star Trek, and I've always had the impression that it's pretty common in the entertainment industry, but the stories have traditionally ended with the bullied parties leaving. It's honestly a bit exciting to see the perpetrators being replaced instead.

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Last night (from my perspective on US PST),

lizbee mentioned that she'd run into some interviews with the Discovery dialect coach and the work she did with the actors playing Klingons (among other things), but she wasn't sure where she'd found it. I was curious, so I did a little digging this morning and found a couple things.

Oct 2017 CBC Radio Montreal interview with Dialect Coach Rea Nolan (audio-only post on YouTube, 10:32 min)

IndieWire piece about the Klingon translator for Discovery (3 page article)

Does anybody else have interesting behind-the-scenes links that they'd like to share?

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Michelle Yeoh has only appeared in three episodes of Discovery, and only one that required a stunt double, but IMDB lists her stunt double as appearing in four episodes.

Of course, this might be an error, or she might be doubling for multiple people, who knows?

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

A good old-fashioned Star Trek: Discovery fan comm

Entries tagged with behind the scenes

really nice feature on Phillipa Georgiou

The showrunner revolving door

Discovery dialect coach and translator

Feel free to speculate wildly

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