Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh made an absolutely delicious villain as Star Trek: Discovery’s ruthless emperor Philippa Georgiou, so it’s fun to see her go bad again in the new Paramount+ spinoff movie Star Trek: Section 31.

Its surprising late-game cameo isn’t about franchise ties at all: It features a familiar actor who’s never appeared in Star Trek before. Section 31 star Michelle Yeoh told Polygon this one was all about the personal, real-world connections she made in her Oscar-winning movie Everything Everywhere All at Once.

The actor returns to the "Star Trek," reprising her character Philippa Georgiou, who leads the franchise's first television movie now streaming on Paramount+.

Section 31, in which Michelle Yeoh reprises her role as Philippa Georgiou. The complicated Star Trek universe and its dual timelines — called "Prime" and "Kelvin" — make it difficult to know how to watch the movies in storyline order.