Star Trek: Section 31

Very disappointed about all this negativity. I've thought for years that something based around Section 31 could be a fun new creative space to explore, and when Yeoh signed on I was super hyped. Haven't watched it yet, but sounds like it's a fail. Still, will give it a shot.
 
S31 in ST over the last decade or so feels a bit like what they did with the Borg. Brilliant at first, hugely overused, ruined/not nearly as menacing.
 
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Arterion said:
Very disappointed about all this negativity. I've thought for years that something based around Section 31 could be a fun new creative space to explore, and when Yeoh signed on I was super hyped. Haven't watched it yet, but sounds like it's a fail. Still, will give it a shot.
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So did i.. I was really looking forward to seeing the dirty work that sometimes has be be done by a covert federation branch that has to work to let the Federation have plausible deniability, basically a more gritty/adult take on star trek. Unfortunately although this wasn't it really, bar a couple of questionable deaths and less than moral decisions.
 
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S31 in ST over the last decade or so feels a bit like what they did with the Borg. Brilliant at first, hugely overused, ruined/not nearly as menacing.
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Yeah, their secrecy level and integration with Starfleet has radically changed over the years and across the various Trek productions.

Here's how that breaks down chronologically:

2149 - Malcolm Reed, then a young ensign in Earth's Starfleet, recruited into Section 31 which is a part of Starfleet Security that isn't widely known about.
2250s - S31 so un-secret that they have their own black Starfleet delta insignia and their own fleet.
2258 - control of S31 handed to TylerVoq, Starfleet promising to make the organisation more transparent.
2324 (this film) - S31 no longer really a part of Starfleet but they have some oversight of the organisation for missions.
2370s - S31 is a super secret spy organisation doing super secret spy missions to super secretly aid the security of the Federation. Shhh though. It's a secret.
 
Or if you want to completely mess it up, Kelvin timeline had 2259 with Section 31 having Starfleet Admirals involved, Khan, multiple bases posing as archive centres and some of the biggest ships in the fleet being constructed in oversized spacedocks, but it's all hush hush. In that timeline Section 31 could transport people hundreds of lightyears away to different planets, no idea why they needed the big ship.
 
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Or if you want to completely mess it up, Kelvin timeline had 2259 with Section 31 having Starfleet Admirals involved, Khan, multiple bases posing as archive centres and some of the biggest ships in the fleet being constructed in oversized spacedocks, but it's all hush hush. In that timeline Section 31 could transport people hundreds of lightyears away to different planets, no idea why they needed the big ship.
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Fair point, I could have included that if I wanted to spend even a single second thinking much about Into Darkness ;) Beyond declaring it to still be the worst Trek production of the lot, Section 31 notwithstanding.
 
Holy **** it was awful. Oceans 11 combined that horrible "magic trick" heist movie and some violence and bad 2020s acting.

I know why i stopped watching modern star trek.

So sad.
 
I watched it yesterday and made sure my expectations were as low as i could..

It was "ok", it felt like it was trying to be something it wasn't, with some comedy elements, that didn't quite hit right, and a cast that didn't quite fit with their various parts.

Don't think this is a spoiler.. so ..... as for the Irish virus being thing, that was just a plain stupid move.. (not sure if it was supposed to be a comedy thing, but it really wasn't)

I can't recommend others watch it, but it's not as bad as some other films, i've had to turn off before the end.

Probably 3/10 if i had to give it a rating..
 
Well um I watched it, it did not seemed to be a Star Trek movie but more like terrible star trek comedy episode with bad storyline. I missed Star Trek: Discovery, it had the best storylines and effects in every episode. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Section 31 storylines and Star Trek: Picard every episodes was much better than this Star Trek: Section 31 movie/episode.

Somebody at script department need to be fired!!!
 
A Star Trek: Prodigy showrunner's take on Kurtzman's take on Trek.

Bluesky link.

Chad Quandt on Bluesky said:
I know Section 31's been a thing since DS9, but what drew me to working on Star Trek Prodigy was getting to tell stories in an optimistic world in which we moved past capitalism and greed. Not one that's propped up by backroom assassins.
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Preach, rev'rend!
 
When they first showed Section 31 in Discovery and then announced it's own show I was sort of looking forward to actually getting to see the inner workings of Section 31, with the news that this was supposed to be a series then a movie I do wonder how much they already had filmed and then mashed it together to make this film, if you remove the few sprinkles of Star Trek items from this you could easily see this being a new sci fi film on Netflix similar to Rebel Moon.

What a let down and waste of Michelle Yeoh.

It's the sort of film you'd have on in the background and not require your full attention or how Netflix design their movies these days so you can happily sit on your phone but know what's happening.
 
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