I'm glad they are going this route, if they had to do it at all. It seems that Kurtzman was determined to make this happen, and definitely after Yeoh won the Academy Award, Paramount Plus wants some of that prestige. I think a movie event is a better way to go than trying to make this a series, because I didn't think a series, especially one with Emperor Georgiou as the lead, would be sustainable. Her story was too convoluted to build a series around.
Kurtzman takes a lot of abuse from some corners of the internet, and I haven't always agreed with his decisions, but I do like his willingness to be innovative. I thought Short Treks was a neat idea and I've long wanted Trek to do more animation (especially something geared toward younger viewers to expand Trek's audience), and I've even wanted a Starfleet Academy series as well. Now, if the Section 31 movie works, perhaps we could get even more special event movies. It would be a great way to get a Earth-Romulan War movie, a Sulu/Chekov Excelsior movie, a Harriman/Demora Sulu Enterprise-B movie, a DS9 reunion movie, a Captain Worf movie, and so on.
