Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh is returning to the "Star Trek" universe.
Yeoh will reprise her role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou, a character she first played in Star Trek: Discovery‘s first season, in Paramount+'s "Star Trek: Section 31", an original movie for the streamer.
The actress was in talks for the project in 2018 and it was later confirmed in 2019 that it was in development as a series at CBS All Access. It will now be retooled as a streaming movie.
Written by Craig Sweeny and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, "Section 31" follows Emperor Philippa Georgiou joining a secret division of Starfleet tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets. But she also faces the sins of her past.
Philippa Georgiou was the original captain of the ship Shenzhou but was killed in the pilot episode, and her death created much of the friction for the surviving characters in the first season.
Later in the season, her “evil” Mirrorverse counterpart shows up. The Mirrorverse is a universe like our own, only where people often are the moral opposites of their main universe counterparts.
Executive producers are Alex Kurtzman, Craig Sweeny, Aaron Baiers, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, and Michelle Yeoh.
The movie is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment.
Principal photography will begin later this year.
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