One second I have to review a one shot issue of section 31 that starts with a present day-ish meeting with former emperor and time traveler as well as dimension hopper Philippa Georgiou as she decides to regale someone and thus the reader of her time in the winnowing.
And so young Philippa is sent off to essentially learn what it takes to be the Terran emperor, which means essentially everyone fights and strategizes against each other until the 15 kids there are… winnowed to one. Which she will obviously walk away from and into her future as a genocidal and tyrannical emperor that we will all meet (have met) in Star Trek: Discovery.
This story adds to her backstory that we already saw in the Section 31 movie, and it’s kind of unnecessary, I mean it doesn’t tell anything new about her or even the Terran Empire. This is like a footnote if that because the movie already explained that she was part of the hunger games... I mean the winnowing and we already know she won, and we already know she had an alliance with San and she apparently cared for him. This was unnecessary, sorry.
It would have made better sense for this one shot to show us maybe her beginnings in the imperial palace, or maybe what she was doing as soon as the Guardian of Forever put her back in the past, maybe she returned shortly after 2295, maybe not long into the earlier years of the 24th century. I mean the comic starts off letting us know it was 2334. This would have been a great opportunity to fill in some gaps that the movie absolutely ignored and this issue squandered that by telling us a story we already knew.
Don’t get me wrong the story itself is fine for what it is and the art is good. But this was a backstory we did not really need. 2/10