Star Trek: Section 31
| Premiere: 2025-01-24 Days since premiere: 3 |
Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh.
If one made a few switcheroos of person/place/things, this could be a non-Star Trek movie. In which case it would just be a pretty uninteresting mid-budget space action movie I might expect to see RiffTrax or MST3K of the 2040s take on. Buuuuut it is Star Trek, so our fictional universe is stuck with it.
We start the movie with our protagonist killing her family and it just rolls on from there. Fun.
The way Discovery used Section 31 never matched well with the way DS9 began it or Enterprise built on from there, and unfortunately this movie just continues in the wrong direction. Section 31 is not the discrete entity doing what it wishes, but a group Starfleet actively partners with. And based on the ending, the future captain of the Enterprise-C has a long-term relationship with 31 and is becoming a close personal friend of Space Hitler. Ugh.
So a lot of the big events didn't make sense to me, either because I missed things or they were poorly explained. Like 1) What's the deal with San? Georgiou we know went the long way around with Discovery and so effectively skipped from ~2260 to ~2320. But it didn't seem San was any older than we saw in the flashbacks either. 2) The Godsend was explained as a device of MASS MASS destruction, like destroying a quadrant of the galaxy. The purpose being, make it not worth killing the emperor because you'd have absolutely nothing to gain from it. So San's plan to use the Godsend here and then bring in the Terran Empire to take over... what's the point? Take over what? You will have already destroyed it. 3) And in the end the Godsend WAS used... but history clearly doesn't show it destroying a chunk of either reality. So its effects were... contained to the bridge connecting realities? Which was a temporary thing anyway? Well, it was at one point described as like clockwork, but I took that as just ion storm weather forecasting. But I guess they were trying to say it was a regularly occurring passageway between realities which has now been destroyed? Just not explained well.
Ending with a Jamie Lee Curtis cameo? What?
There are only a handful of interesting things this adds to the Trek universe that I could see getting brought back in interesting ways in future projects, like the tiny people.