The Incomparable Michelle Yeoh
Star Trek: The Pod Directive
Star Trek
4.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Michelle Yeoh! Tawny Newsome! Paul F. Tompkins! Need we say more? Join us for a wide ranging conversation with Phillipa Georgiou herself, spanning the world from Malaysia, to Toronto, to Paris, and of course talking about everything Star Trek: Discovery, but also so much more. Star Trek fan or not, this is an interview you don’t want to miss!
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| 0:00.0 | Here it is. We're back. |
| 0:08.5 | Here it is. We're back, baby. We've got another episode of Star Trek the Pod |
| 0:13.8 | Directive, the official Star Trek podcast. I'm your host, Honey Newsome. I am also your host, |
| 0:18.1 | Paul F. Tompkins. Thank you for joining us once again. And man, |
| 0:21.2 | oh man. Man, oh man. What an episode we have this time out. This is one of the greats, |
| 0:29.5 | not this episode, the person we're talking to. Yes. And maybe by association with them, |
| 0:34.4 | this episode. This is a real treat. |
| 0:39.5 | We are, I mean, I was beside myself. |
| 0:41.9 | I was so beside myself that I was basically struck by lightning and all the power in my house went out. |
| 0:48.7 | And so a savvy listener will notice that I do not speak for the first seven minutes of this interview, because I was not there. |
| 0:55.4 | Yes, Tani was off the grid. |
| 0:58.0 | Literally. |
| 0:58.7 | It was pretty wild. |
| 1:00.0 | We all started up the Zoom. |
| 1:01.3 | We set our helloes. |
| 1:02.2 | Then the second we went to record, all of the power in my home went out. |
| 1:05.3 | Tony just went away. |
| 1:06.5 | She just blinked out. |
| 1:08.5 | But that gave me some powerful alone time with global superstar and legend Michelle |
| 1:15.4 | Yo. |
| 1:15.9 | It was very, I was so starstruck by her, but she was, she's just such a real person. |
| 1:24.0 | Like, she was just so down to earth and really so wonderful to chat with. But I was |
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