Unlike Terran Empire, Which Fell Centuries Ago - Star Trek Discovery 3x05

He is an excellent intelligence agent. Unassuming, observant, keen, intelligent, compartmentalizes, listener, expert with the Socratic Method, controls the mental chessboard, appears nonthreatening but gives off a most deadly vibe at the same time. He will probably go home and forget about all of this and return to his wife and family as if it were just another day at the job. A perfect Section 31 Agent.

Emperor verbally probing for weaknesses Interrogator: Uno Reverse Card

She was surprised by two things: 1. The fall of the terran empire. 2. How good this interrogator is.

Now all this scene needs is Garak coming out of nowhere to add his input.

Even after all these years, Michelle Yeoh is still smokin'...

This is the level of writing I would like to see this series maintain.

"Vulcans need to learn how to stay in their lane sometimes" 😂

"And yet it endures, unlike the Terran Empire which fell centuries ago." I remember saying something similar way back when "In a Mirror Darkly" aired.

It occurred to me that as the Terran Empire fell centuries ago, with most humans killed or enslaved and since that Universe's people followed a very different history after the DS9 era - the two universes no longer mirrored one another anymore on any level, with the differences growing farther apart with each generation. The people and cultures in one universe could never be "mirror born" in the other as linages were wiped out among their respective opposites. - each person was truly unique in their own universe with no mirror in the other. Without that common link, as the mirror shattered forever, it makes sense that no-one would be able to cross between the two anymore, 500 years ago being a natural, final divergent point.

Glasses guy: “Play with it.” Georgiou: smash

You have to agree the chemistry between these two is phenomenal!!

I love how he talks so calmly and quietly. It gives him this layer of creepiness.

I love Georgiou. She electrifies every scene because you have no idea what she is going to say or do.

"It seems you created an empire based on the maxim 'because we feel like it'!" BRILLIANT!

This kind of political intrigue captivates the Hell out of me.

I think the interaction between those two was my favorite part of this episode. How he described the Terran empire as "because we feel like it" is so spot on

Discovery’s writing has been hit or miss but Michelle Yeoh always steals the scene whenever she shows up.

I think this is the moment when Georgiou starts to consider that the ideals of the Federation, which she had repeatedly ridiculed up to that point, were really better than the way the Empire does things.

"And yet it endures, unlike the Terran Empire which fell centuries ago." OH SNAP! That has to be the hardest hit that Georgiou has taken from anybody since they pulled her out of the Mirror Universe! It seems like the Future!Federation monitored the Terran Empire. They have sensors that can detect if people are from the Mirror Universe and seem to have kept track of events there until the universes drifted too far apart to easily cross from one to other anymore. Also, the growing separation seems to have been ongoing during the 23rd and 24th centuries at least. They went from entire starships crossing over, to just individuals via transporters and eventually no crossings at all. I wonder if the mycelial network has grown to fill in the gap or if now even spore drive would have trouble making the crossing?

Very interesting how he answers the burn question instead of the "who is in charge" question, makes you think about the state of the Federation