Pop culture updates #17.

• Parts 1-11.
• Part 12 (Bubba Ho-Tep)
• Part 13 (Lower Decks)
• Part 14 (Joe Bob)
• Part 15 (GB games)
• Part 16 (Cassian)

And now another goddamned Star TREK show!

Star Trek: Section 31 (2019??)

Michelle Yeoh will play the lead.

Section 31 is Starfleet's evil dirty spy organization.
Michelle Yeoh's character (in ST:Discovery), Captain Georgiou, got eaten by Klingons, and replaced with her Mirror-Universe opposite, Empress Georgiou, who had to pretend to be Captain Georgiou to fool the Klingons, and then got enlisted by Section 31 at the end of the finale.
So, apparently, that's gonna spin off.

They floated the idea of a Section 31 show back when they created ST:Enterprise.
The three choices they ran past focus groups (translation- ya-fucking-hoos off the street) were a prequel (which is what they went with for Enterprise), Section 31, or a Borg show.
Despite whining by fans, they went with the right one.

There's certain ideas that float through Hollywood that they never let go of.
Sometimes they're good, oftentimes they're rotten, but executives fall in love with them, and they become unkillable cockroaches.
I hated the Section 31 idea back in the day, but if Michelle Yeoh is on board, sign me up.

So, that's Return Of Picard, Lower Decks, and now this.
That takes us up to series 9.
One more will get us to 10!
That's double the series count in 2 years!
Not too shabby!
Considering we had to wait 50 years for the first 5 to play out.

I'm betting on Starfleet Academy being 10.

Personally, I won't count the Wrath Of Khan prequel miniseries towards the numbering, because I fold Animated, Classic Movies, and JJ-Movies back into TOS as extra episodes, so if Khan-prequel goes between TOS and Classic Movies, that's still just more of TOS.

Anyhoo, see you next time for series 10!
Cuz you know it's coming!