Could Burnham maybe have secret feeling for Phillipa?

[Kristine]

I mean Micheal say to Phillipa before she leaves her forever in the portal "you are my Phillipa."
She then says "What I feel for you, belongs to you. No one else." And Phillipa says "I will never find another like you." And Micheal says "I don't think I will either." And there is some fan fiction online about the 2 of them being a couple. Is it possible Burnham maybe have secret feeling for Phillipa?

 

[Tosk]

Maybe. I dunno.

But if they both acknowledge it (as you claim they do in your example) then it's not a secret.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I think both Phillipas saw Burnham as a daughter. Burnham saw them as a mother.

 

[XCV330]

Love is complicated but it didn't seem like any kind of romantic feeling. Honestly it was a hard sell that Burnham would like mirror Georgio at all. There's guilt because she got her own captain killed (and eaten.. just to point that out again, there was a bit of people eating going on in Season 1) so she drug the Empress into a world she didn't belong in. For the Empress seeing a version of her step daughter who hadn't been groomed into a traitorous lover by Lorca, was probably confusing. I suppose even killer wasps might have materinal instincts. I don't know what Prime Georgiou thought but like the previous poster said, i think it was maternal for both of them. Burnham collects moms. Everyone needs a hobby.

 

[Lord Garth]

No doubt there will be some slash if there isn't already, but I don't see it that way.

Here's how I see it: I think Burnham had four mother figures in her life --> Gabrielle, Amanda, Phillipa, and Phillipa.

But Burnham only ever go to see Prime Georgiou as The Captain and The Mentor. She got to know Mirror Georgiou not as a mentor but someone on a more approachable level. I also think Mirror Georgiou was someone who encouraged Burnham to think outside the box, whereas Captain Georgiou -- I suspect -- wanted Burnham to think more inside of the box and be someone that she could mold if not into a younger version of herself, but someone more like herself.

Mirror Georgiou accepted Burnham as she was. And, because of that, Burnham felt like she could be herself instead of what she thought someone else expected her to be. That's why I think Burnham told Mirror Georgiou, "You are my Phillipa" and meant it.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I definitely got mother/daughter vibes, nothing sexual.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

(and eaten.. just to point that out again, there was a bit of people eating going on in Season 1)

What point are you trying to make other than to be facetious? People eating people is nothing new to trek. In the Voyager episode 'Survival instinct', Seven of Nine took part in butchering and eating another Borg drone when she was stranded on a planet with other drones from her matrix. You see the ripped apart corpse and Seven and the other drones eating the flesh and everything.

But yeah, 'Discovery bad' or whatever.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Mother/daughter, mentor/mentee feelings, not lover feelings.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

I mean Micheal say to Phillipa before she leaves her forever in the portal "you are my Phillipa."
She then says "What I feel for you, belongs to you. No one else." And Phillipa says "I will never find another like you." And Micheal says "I don't think I will either." And there is some fan fiction online about the 2 of them being a couple. Is it possible Burnham maybe have secret feeling for Phillipa?

Burnham literally refers to Georgiou 'Like a mother almost, Like a sister almost' in the very same episode you are quoting.

 

[SolarisOne]

Sounds like a fanfic prompt (not that there's anything wrong with that). Also, no. They're very much found-mother/daughter.

 

[The Wormhole]

Yeah, the relationship between Michael and Georgiou was very much a mother/daughter kind of relationship. And while there is love there in the same sense that there is love between a parent and child, I never got the impression there was ever anything romantic or sexual to the relationship between those two.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Love doesn't always require the jumping of bones. You can love someone as just a friend or a mentor/surrogate parent. That's what Burnham and Georgiou were.

 

[XCV330]

What point are you trying to make other than to be facetious? People eating people is nothing new to trek. In the Voyager episode 'Survival instinct', Seven of Nine took part in butchering and eating another Borg drone when she was stranded on a planet with other drones from her matrix. You see the ripped apart corpse and Seven and the other drones eating the flesh and everything.

But yeah, 'Discovery bad' or whatever.

end red alert. I wasn't saying anything bad about Discovery, just an observation, Jesus. I'm a fan of Discovery.

 

[fireproof78]

Is it possible Burnham maybe have secret feeling for Phillipa?

No.

 

[seigezunt]

Ship what you will, but I don't see it.

Also, I'm having trouble picturing Burnham having a secret feeling these days. She seems pretty eager to share them. :-)

 

[Mage]

The world is filled with people that connect any type of love to sexual notions straight away.
Two days ago, a woman who I have called mother for years now showed up at work. Because of covid we haven't seen each other in a year I think. The hug we shared was intense. We love each other deeply and dearly. She is mine, I am hers. My actual mother praises her for being a mother figure for me when she wasn't capable of being one because of her own problems. By the way, I deeply care for and deeply love my mother.
I assume OP assumes we want to sexy the hell out of each other now?? Or my actual mother as well?

I pity the person who has never felt love for another human being that wasn't sexually based. I really do.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I never got the mother/daughter vibe with Prime Georgiou. She saw Burnham as a promising young officer and a trusted XO, but that was it, really.

I mean, Prime Burnham grew up in a loving home, with both of her parents, so why would Georgy have any reason to butt in?

Trying to read love and romance into every damn thing is...reaching, to say the least. As Freud might say, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar!

 

[Nerys Myk]

I never got the mother/daughter vibe with Prime Georgiou. She saw Burnham as a promising young officer and a trusted XO, but that was it, really.

I mean, Prime Burnham grew up in a loving home, with both of her parents, so why would Georgy have any reason to butt in?

Trying to read love and romance into every damn thing is...reaching, to say the least. As Freud might say, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar!

You can have a motherly connection with someone and be from a loving home. It's not always about filling a void.

 

[fireproof78]

I mean, Prime Burnham grew up in a loving home, with both of her parents, so why would Georgy have any reason to butt in?

That completely misunderstands why a parental style relationship may occur. Some times it is to fill a void and sometimes it is because such relationships are valued wherever they go, and seek out such things in new environments.

 

[fireproof78]

I actually forgot that Burnham's parents died (in that Klingon attack). And as I now recall, she was rather young at the time. So I guess it's not that much of a stretch that she might seek out a substitute mother figure...

...I just didn't think it was Georgiou. Seems clear it was Amanda.

Part of the difficulty for Burnham is she never fully processed the trauma of the attack and loss of her parents. So, even if she was substituting Amanda the healing she needed didn't necessarily occur for her to make up for the damaged attachment.