I'll let the Enterprise crew do the talking for me. The relevant section in a transcript from "Space Seed"...
Kirk: Name, Khan, as we know him today. (Spock changes the picture) Name, Khan Noonien Singh.
Spock: From 1992 through 1996, absolute ruler of more than a quarter of your world. From Asia through the Middle East.
McCoy: The last of the tyrants to be overthrown.
Scotty: I must confess, gentlemen. I've always held a sneaking admiration for this one.
Kirk: He was the best of the tyrants and the most dangerous. They were supermen, in a sense. Stronger, braver, certainly more ambitious, more daring.
Spock: Gentlemen, this romanticism about a ruthless dictator is
Kirk: Mister Spock, we humans have a streak of barbarism in us. Appalling, but there, nevertheless.
Scotty: There were no massacres under his rule.
Spock: And as little freedom.
McCoy: No wars until he was attacked.
Spock: Gentlemen.
KIRK: Mister Spock, you misunderstand us. We can be against him and admire him all at the same time.
Spock: Illogical.
Kirk: Totally.
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Ignore the specific details and look at the line that I bolded. That basically sums up my thoughts about Mirror Georgiou. No one who watched The Sopranos identified with Tony Soprano. I don't identify with Heisenberg in Breaking Bad and Don Draper is a horrible person in Mad Men. I like those shows anyway. Mad Men in particular is my favorite show of all-time. Period. Sorry Star Trek. Then there's Oz and Orange Is the New Black which are shows set in prisons where everyone's a criminal. Those are two favorites of mine as well. People know not to disturb me when a new season of OITNB is out. Pulp Fiction and Fargo are two of the most messed up movies ever, and no one is an angel or even close. Still two favorite movies of mine.
Bottom line: I don't need the protagonists of every series I watch to be virtuous. "But it's a Star Trek series!" Yeah, I know it is. But this is definitely not CBS All Access's flagship Star Trek series. That seems to be pretty firmly Discovery. The Georgiou Series is purely "spin-off of a spin-off". It's definitely not alien-of-the-week, mystery-of-the-week, or anything like that. It's a different genre that's being tried out while they spread out their wings. Like I said, it's not going to be for everyone. But it might be for people who like sci-fi spy series. There are probably movies out there like it, but doing something like this in TV form doesn't hurt either. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and they'll replace it with some other spin-off. Simple. Meanwhile, for anyone who doesn't like Section 31, look at it this way: maybe all the Section 31 stories the writers want to tell will be diverted into this series and, if you don't watch it, you won't see it in the Trek series you do watch because they'll all be in the Section 31 series instead.
And this is my opening to say, I really enjoyed DS9's first two entries into Section 31: "Inquisition" where they're introduced, and "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" where we see them in their element. The less said about "Extreme Measures", the better. So, here's hoping they look towards "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" for inspiration.
Kirk: Name, Khan, as we know him today. (Spock changes the picture) Name, Khan Noonien Singh.
Spock: From 1992 through 1996, absolute ruler of more than a quarter of your world. From Asia through the Middle East.
McCoy: The last of the tyrants to be overthrown.
Scotty: I must confess, gentlemen. I've always held a sneaking admiration for this one.
Kirk: He was the best of the tyrants and the most dangerous. They were supermen, in a sense. Stronger, braver, certainly more ambitious, more daring.
Spock: Gentlemen, this romanticism about a ruthless dictator is
Kirk: Mister Spock, we humans have a streak of barbarism in us. Appalling, but there, nevertheless.
Scotty: There were no massacres under his rule.
Spock: And as little freedom.
McCoy: No wars until he was attacked.
Spock: Gentlemen.
KIRK: Mister Spock, you misunderstand us. We can be against him and admire him all at the same time.
Spock: Illogical.
Kirk: Totally.
.
.
.
Ignore the specific details and look at the line that I bolded. That basically sums up my thoughts about Mirror Georgiou. No one who watched The Sopranos identified with Tony Soprano. I don't identify with Heisenberg in Breaking Bad and Don Draper is a horrible person in Mad Men. I like those shows anyway. Mad Men in particular is my favorite show of all-time. Period. Sorry Star Trek. Then there's Oz and Orange Is the New Black which are shows set in prisons where everyone's a criminal. Those are two favorites of mine as well. People know not to disturb me when a new season of OITNB is out. Pulp Fiction and Fargo are two of the most messed up movies ever, and no one is an angel or even close. Still two favorite movies of mine.
Bottom line: I don't need the protagonists of every series I watch to be virtuous. "But it's a Star Trek series!" Yeah, I know it is. But this is definitely not CBS All Access's flagship Star Trek series. That seems to be pretty firmly Discovery. The Georgiou Series is purely "spin-off of a spin-off". It's definitely not alien-of-the-week, mystery-of-the-week, or anything like that. It's a different genre that's being tried out while they spread out their wings. Like I said, it's not going to be for everyone. But it might be for people who like sci-fi spy series. There are probably movies out there like it, but doing something like this in TV form doesn't hurt either. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and they'll replace it with some other spin-off. Simple. Meanwhile, for anyone who doesn't like Section 31, look at it this way: maybe all the Section 31 stories the writers want to tell will be diverted into this series and, if you don't watch it, you won't see it in the Trek series you do watch because they'll all be in the Section 31 series instead.
And this is my opening to say, I really enjoyed DS9's first two entries into Section 31: "Inquisition" where they're introduced, and "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" where we see them in their element. The less said about "Extreme Measures", the better. So, here's hoping they look towards "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" for inspiration.
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I misunderstood anyway. I never heard of "/s" before 
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