Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Section 31
Star Trek: Section 31 has a surprise reunion between Michelle Yeoh and one of her Everything Everywhere All At Once costars. Michelle Yeoh’s Emperor Philippa Georgiou debuted in Star Trek: Discovery season 1 and became one of the best characters to come out of that series. Georgiou began her Star Trek story as the brutal Emperor of the Mirror Universe’s Terran Empire before Philippa traveled to Star Trek‘s Prime Universe with the USS Discovery. Through her bond with Commander Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), Georgiou began to evolve beyond the brutal dictator of the Terran Empire.
Michelle Yeoh achieved international film superstardom before she was cast as Captain Philippa Georgiou in Star Trek: Discovery, but between leaving Discovery in season 3 and starring in Section 31, Yeoh’s fame has skyrocketed to another level. In 2022, Yeoh brilliantly portrayed Evelyn Wang in the Academy Award-winning Everything Everywhere All At Once, a role that earned her an Oscar for Best Actress. Yeoh’s performance as Georgiou is the best thing about Section 31, and, in a surprise reveal, her Everything Everywhere costar Jamie Lee Curtis pops up as Control, the enigmatic leader of Section 31.
Jamie Lee Curtis In Star Trek: Section 31 Is A Surprise Reunion With Michelle Yeoh
Star Trek Kept Curtis’s Appearance In Section 31 A Complete Surprise From Viewers
Star Trek on Paramount+ kept the reveal that Jamie Lee Curtis had a role in Star Trek: Section 31 a secret, and Curtis does not actually appear on-screen until the very end of the film. After a flashback to Philippa Georgiou’s early life in the Mirror Universe, Curtis’s Control delivers the details for Section 31 Alpha Team’s upcoming mission. Starfleet has learned about a new superweapon that could pose a threat to the United Federation of Planets, and Section 31 was tasked with tracking down Georgiou and the weapon, believing they may be connected.
As Starfleet’s black ops intelligence organization, Section 31 employs an eclectic group of agents from all walks of life and with varying skill sets. At the end of the film, the remaining members of Georgiou’s Section 31 team reunite at her nightclub, where a holographic Control informs them of their next job. Although Georgiou is present for the scene, she and Control do not exchange any lines. They are never really together in the movie at all, which is a shame considering how well Yeoh and Curtis played off of one another in Everything Everywhere.
Jamie Lee Curtis Deserves A Bigger Star Trek Role Than Section 31’s Cameo
Everything Everywhere Proved Jamie Lee Curtis To Be Capable Of Much More Than A Cameo
Jamie Lee Curtis won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Everything Everywhere All At Once, putting her skills and versatility as an actor on full display. Although Star Trek: Section 31 already feels somewhat overstuffed with characters, Curtis could have carried a much larger role. If the film had been a bit longer, it would have been incredibly fun to see Curtis’s Control check in on her Section 31 team throughout their mission. There were times when the group could have used some help, especially considering the urgency of their mission.
It’s unclear whether Jamie Lee Curtis’s character is even a real person or if she’s simply an artificially intelligent hologram (which would be odd considering Section 31’s last experience with an AI named Control).
Jamie Lee Curtis showed action chops in films like True Lies and Everything Everywhere and has proven her ability to carry films such as the Halloween franchise. Section 31 does not fully utilize Curtis’ talent, giving her a fun, but very brief cameo. With such high-caliber actors as Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle Yeoh, Section 31 might have done better with fewer characters and more focus on Georgiou and Control. It remains to be seen if Star Trek: Section 31 will get the sequel its ending sets up, but here’s hoping Jamie Lee Curtis’s Control plays a larger role in it if it does.
