Discovery Spin-Off Series in the Works?
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She’s not a cannibal
Not quite, but there isn't a good word for eating other sapient beings in our language.
If she ate Spock would she be half a cannibal? Of course she's a cannibal.
No she isn’t. She’s a terrible person but not a cannibal.
If she ate Spock would she be a cannibal? It's a simple question.
That's absurd.
No it isn’t, it’s the definition of the word.
Pretty sure by the time humanity is getting it on with Vulcans and Klingons the definition of the word would be changed.
Or there is a new word, or they just slap Xeno in front of the current one like Xeno-Cannibalism
But until that is actually stated on screen I’m not going to go against the current definition of the word.
Fair enough.
The entire part where people are enslaved to be slaughtered and eaten, people are iffy about keeping slaves never mind cutting them up and eating them too. Crazy I know.
In the Trek universe, eating any sort of meat is seen as anachronistic and icky at best (like Keiko's reaction to Miles talking about his mother cooking 'real meat'), or a sign of primitive barbarism at worst. Spock pretty obviously thinks it's morally wrong as well as illogical to kill an animal for food. It's normally only alien cultures that brazenly slaughter and eat animals - Klingons for example. Pretty much everything about them is supposed to be weird and uncomfortable for humans.
Instead Starfleet has food synthesisers or replicators which obviously don't serve real meat. Georgiou is yet another example of the Mirror universe's cartoonish extreme exaggeration. She doesn't just eat meat, she eats actual people to express her alpha dominance over 'inferior' aliens. It's pretty repulsive, but completely in-character.
I don't really know how you build a series around her as a protagonist rather than an antagonist. I suspect if the series went ahead, she wouldn't be the 'hero' by any means. We'd probably follow her handler, who may not know all of her backstory. I could easily see a scenario where she personifies the whole corrupt nature of Section 31 itself - how can they claim to protect the Federation by going against each and every thing it stands for? Our central character could undergo a similar kind of journey Bashir went through, only starting off from the inside and starting to question it. Plenty of material to work with there.
Instead Starfleet has food synthesisers or replicators which obviously don't serve real meat. Georgiou is yet another example of the Mirror universe's cartoonish extreme exaggeration. She doesn't just eat meat, she eats actual people to express her alpha dominance over 'inferior' aliens. It's pretty repulsive, but completely in-character.
I don't really know how you build a series around her as a protagonist rather than an antagonist. I suspect if the series went ahead, she wouldn't be the 'hero' by any means. We'd probably follow her handler, who may not know all of her backstory. I could easily see a scenario where she personifies the whole corrupt nature of Section 31 itself - how can they claim to protect the Federation by going against each and every thing it stands for? Our central character could undergo a similar kind of journey Bashir went through, only starting off from the inside and starting to question it. Plenty of material to work with there.
That wasn't my point.
Sorry, just saying that's probably why cannabilism was first brought up.
Weird that it's not really touched on in the first few series, now Discovery comes along with two examples in the first season. With added necrophagia.
I'm not sure "Space Hitler" applies here.
For one, Terran Empire wasn't her idea, it existed for centuries before her, and she was born and raised in a society where the things she did were not only normal but expected.
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