Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh stars in Star Trek: Section 31, and here’s everything we know about Star Trek‘s first made-for-streaming movie. A spinoff of Star Trek: Discovery, Yeoh reprises her role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou, the former ruler of the Mirror Universe’s Terran Empire who joined Starfleet’s mysterious Section 31 in Star Trek: Discovery season 2. Star Trek: Section 31 was originally planned as an ongoing show, and in January 2019, development began on a Star Trek: Section 31 series, which was scheduled to film from May to November 2020.

Yeoh’s character, Emperor Georgiou, was written out of Star Trek: Discovery season 3, to segue her into Section 31. However, the COVID-19 pandemic halted Section 31‘s production. Yeoh’s availability also impacted Section 31, especially when she won the Best Actress Academy Award for Everything Everywhere All At Once. However, Yeoh used her Oscar clout to put Section 31 into production, this time as a feature film to stream on Paramount+.

Star Trek: Section 31 Critical Reception

A Universally Reviled Streaming Movie Debut

After the movie’s long and laborious journey to get to the small screen, the reception for Star Trek: Section 31 was as cold as the vast reaches of outer space. Securing a score on Rotten Tomatoes below 30%, the Paramount+ exclusive was described as a “disaster” by Slate. More specifically, the site mentioned that Section 31 failed to feel like Star Trek and was instead a cheap imitation of Guardians of the Galaxy and the heist genre. Echoing those sentiments, IGN lamented the bland and derivative nature of the movie.

Screen Rant was a bit softer on the movie (giving it a 6 out of 10 score), and mostly heaped praise upon Michelle Yeoh’s performance. However, even the more positive review couldn’t help but note that Section 31 was utterly devoid of the Star Trek magic.

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Star Trek: Section 31 Cast Details

Section 31 Includes New Faces & Star Trek Legacy Characters

Joining Michelle Yeoh (who plays Philippa Georgiou) in Star Trek: Section 31‘s cast are Sam Richardson, Omari Hardwick, Kacey Rohl, Rob Kazinsky, Sven Ruygrok, Humberly Gonzalez, James Hiroyuki Liao, Joe Pingue, Miku Martineau, and Augusto Bitter. Rohl plays the younger version of Rachel Garrett, the doomed future Captain of the USS Enterprise-C, who was played by Tricia O’Neill in the Star Trek: The Next Generation classic, “Yesterday’s Enterprise”.

Richardson plays the first Chameloid shapeshifter seen since Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, while Humberly Gonzalez plays a Deltan (a race seen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture). Meanwhile, Rob Kazinsky Zeph, while Miku Martineau plays the younger version of Georgiou.

The cast of Section 31 includes:

Actor	Section 31 Role
Michelle Yeoh	Philippa Georgiou
Miku Martineau	Young Georgiou
Sam Richardson	Quasi
Humberly Gonzalez	Melle
Kacey Rohl	Rachel Garrett
Omari Hardwick	Alok
Sven Ruygrok	Fuzz
Robert Kazinsky	Zeph
James Hiroyuki Liao	San

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Star Trek: Section 31 Trailer

Section 31 Is Unlike Any Star Trek Fans Have Seen

Star Trek: Section 31‘s first teaser trailer premiered at San Diego Comic-Con 2024. Highlighting more action than Star Trek fans are typically accustomed to, Section 31′s trailer also evokes a central dilemma as Emperor Georgiou’s black ops spy team conflicts with the morality espoused by Starfleet. Section 31‘s trailer introduces the entire team Georgiou ᴀssembles with the central characters appearing. It also shows intriguing flashbacks of Emperor Georgiou’s blood-soaked past, with the young Philippa played by Miku Martineau.

With only a few weeks to go until the movie’s premiere, Paramount dropped a full trailer for Star Trek: Section 31. The exciting trailer opens with Emperor Georgiou being recruited on a Section 31 mission that has galactic consequences. Teaming up with a rag-tag group of other agents, Georgiou is willing to save others, but she will do it the Section 31 way. Besides showing off the movie’s slick visuals and explosive action, the trailer also drops a few more hints about the various alien races that will appear in the movie.

Star Trek: Section 31 Ending & Spoilers

A Time Travel Adventure In Star Trek’s “Lost Era”

While the main adventure of the movie was exciting in its own right, the ending of Star Trek: Section 31 was mostly devised to set up more stories in the future. The over-the-top doomsday weapon plot was тιԍнтly wrapped up by the final moments of the movie, but it’s clear that Georgiou and the black-ops group had only just gotten started. The ending also gave some closure to Georgiou herself, and it’s clear that she’s grown a bit from her previously ruthless form seen in Discovery.

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Star Trek: Section 31 Sequel Setup

Section 31 Is Given Another ᴀssignment

As with most action movies, Star Trek: Section 31 couldn’t end without very clearly nodding toward a sequel at some point in the future. All twists and reveals aside, the conclusion makes it clear that the events of the movie were only one mission for the тιтular black-ops group, and a cinematic franchise could easily blossom. However, a terrible critical reception, and a lengthy, complicated production timeline, might make Paramount+ reticent to green-light another movie.

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