Star Trek: Section 31 (2025, dir Olatunde Osunsanmi)
Star Trek: Section 31 (2025, dir Olatunde Osunsanmi)
Emperor Philippa Georgiou joins a secret division of Starfleet tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets and faces the sins of her past.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1114894-star-trek-section-31
I've gotta rant here a bit...
I just finished re-watching all of Deep Space 9 a few weeks ago. I'd seen most of the series as it aired, managed to miss a few very key episodes, but never really gave it a ton of thought since the show ended. All the memes about the prescience of the Bell Riots gave me the nudge to go back and give the series a solid second look (after 25-ish years of hindsight).
The introduction of Section 31 was one of DS9's biggest controversies. The writers behind DS9 were more-or-less arguing that you can't have utopia without someone having to do a little genocide every now and then. And while our heroes genuinely hate this idea, they can live with it.
This is all super interesting stuff to think about and debate both for the sake of fun fiction and how we should all endeavor to live and rule our reality. And this silly-looking movie appears to want utterly zero part of that complex conversation.
And that's really disappointing.
For what it's worth, 'In The Pale Moonlight' ("I can live with it.") wasn't Section 31. That was pure Sisko. At that moment his methods and attitude aligned with what Section 31 would have done, but he was independent.
I have no problem with the idea of Section 31. I think it was executed well on DS9. I don’t think this show is going to be very good though, from the previews I’ve seen so far.