Written by Joshua Tyler | Updated
Star Trek: Section 31 It’s now available to stream, and the consensus seems to be that it’s pretty bad. If you’re a Star Trek fan, this might worry you, but I have good news.
Despite its title… Star Trek: Section 31 Not part of Star Trek at all. She’s actually part of a completely different world on screen.
First, a little background. The film is being described as a spin-off focusing on a character played by Michelle Yeoh Star Trek: Discovery. Star Trek: Section 31 It was only greenlit after Yeoh won Best Actress at the Academy Awards for her performance in Mutliverse Everything everywhere at once.
It’s safe to say that the film was made largely because Paramount wanted to associate its brand with an Oscar-winning actress. It is a common practice.
What fans didn’t realize while doing so was that they also wanted to transform her Oscar-winning film Everything everywhere at once In the movie franchise. And this is the place Star Trek: Section 31 It comes about because it’s actually a sequel to Michelle Yeoh’s award-winning alternate universe hopping film, not a Star Trek movie.
Star Trek: Section 31 is actually part of another franchise
Although the film has the phrase “Star Trek” in its title, nothing in the film is related to Star Trek. None of the production designs look like Trek, the ships don’t look like Trek, and very little of the vernacular, technology, or worldbuilding bears any resemblance to any form of Star Trek we’ve seen before.
Article 31 The film proceeds like a generic, poorly written heist movie until the film’s final moments, when its true origin is revealed with the appearance of Jamie Lee Curtis. Curtis co-starred opposite Yooh In Everything everywhere at once. At the end of Section 31, she is revealed to be the secret boss of Section 31, Michelle Yeoh’s boss and the coordinator of everything.
Her interaction with Yeoh’s character feels like a scene from the movie Everything everywhere at once Than Star Trek does, and that’s because it is.
Or at least I choose to believe it.
Everything everywhere at once It is a film about infinite alternate universes. Overall, it has nothing to do with Star Trek and everything to do with this movie, Article 31 Promotes itself as occurring in Everything everywhere at once multiverse, Not in the Star Trek universe.
Michelle Yeoh’s character Philippa Georgiou is just another multiverse version of herself Everything is everywhere a personality. Jamie Lee Curtis is one of the few constants the character has with her as she flips through the multiverse of this film. So, of course, she’s here too.
It’s actually a spin-off of non-canon material
What adds more fuel to this theory is the fact that Article 31 is apparently part of matter star Trek: Discovery, And Star Trek: Discovery is also not part of Star Trek. Or at least not part of the main Star Trek timeline.
In the series finale, Star Trek: Lower Decks retconned Discovery to take A place in an alternate universe. Now we know that the universe is the same as it is set everywhere and everywhere, and has nothing to do with Star Trek.
Let me have my illusion. After suffering through Article 31It’s the only way I’ll be able to enjoy Star Trek again.