Day 5 - Saddest Event

[rivendellrose]

30 Days of Star Trek Meme Day 5 - Saddest Event

Well. There are certainly a few contenders for this (like, for instance, lizbee's very reasonable contention that the finale of Disco S2 is hers -- I considered for a long time just saying "What she said," more or less, and then adding a few gripes of my own that she didn't mention. But I take this question to mean saddest single in-universe event rather than "episode that made me regret ever assuming these writers knew their craft or cared at all about their characters or concept," so since Sisko will clearly come back some day, I'm going to go ahead and say that Georgiou's death is still my saddest event.

I was not prepared. I mean I sort of was -- after all, we knew that there were two captains listed in the cast, Lorca and Georgiou, and the show was titled Discovery, after all, not, like, Star Trek: Shenzhou. But given that I'm not sure Jason Isaacs has ever in the length of his career played a wholly good character and that the majority of his filmography is made up of out-and-out villains, I felt confident that he was a Bad Captain from the minute he was cast. Since Burnham was our first main character who was not a captain, my idea going in was that the storyline would be something like Georgiou sending one of her officers over to investigate a captain who had some seriously hinky stuff in his record, to prove that he was doing something bad. ...I'm not sure why I leaped to this, exactly, but it's what I leaped to as the best explanation for the available information. So I guessed that Georgiou would not be in every episode.

Losing her completely, though, and so damned early... I wanted to cry. I wanted to yell. I wanted to pretend I'd never read the various complaints about Beverly in Hannibal, because holy shit, Fuller, did you have to kill the Asian woman again?

Anyway. I think that's the saddest a single in-universe Star Trek thing has ever made me.

Day 1 - Favorite Episode of TOS
Day 2 - Favorite Federation Race
Day 3 - Favorite Ship
Day 4 - Favorite Captain
Day 6 - Happiest Event
Day 7 - Favorite TNG Episode
Day 8 - Favorite Federation Enemy
Day 9 - Favorite Character
Day 10 - Most Shocking Moment
Day 11 - Crew Position You Would Want
Day 12 - Crew Position You Wouldn't Want
Day 13 - Favorite DS9 Episode
Day 14 - Favorite Time Travel Episode
Day 15 - Favorite First Officer
Day 16 - Favorite Voyager Episode
Day 17 - Favorite Trek Novel
Day 18 - Favorite Non-Aligned Race
Day 19 - Favorite Enterprise Episode
Day 20 - Character You're Most Like
Day 21 - Least Favorite Character
Day 22 - Favorite Trek Film
Day 23 - Best Trek Tech
Day 24 - Best Overall Space Vessel
Day 25 - Favorite Discovery Episode
Day 26 - Planet You Would Most Like To Visit
Day 27 - Character You Would Date
Day 28 - Name Your Own Starship
Day 29 - Favorite Trek Quote
Day 30 - Favorite Trek Series

Comments

[eye_of_a_cat]

I would so, so like to have seen more of her. Nothing against Mirror Georgiou (and how much fun Michelle Yeoh seems to be having playing her!) but, oh how I'd love to see more of Captain Georgiou actually captaining.

[rivendellrose]

Mirror Georgiou is great, and it's clear, like you said, that Michelle Yeoh is having a blast playing her. She's a delicious villain, and it's a delight to watch her be that.

But Captain Georgiou was someone I would have happily watched seven seasons of, someone I'd been waiting years for, and I know a lot of people who'd also been waiting for that. As much as I understand the story-logic of killing the mentor so that Burnham is cut loose in the world, I wish we could have seen a lot more of her.