Spoilers STAR TREK: SECTION 31 - Grading & Discussion

[Turtletrekker]

And while I'm under no illusions about this movie being consistent with those novels, I did find somewhat interesting if completely unintentional connection in Well of Souls, where Garrett expresses disdain over Starfleet Intelligence gets involved due to her low opinion of intelligence agencies in general.

I can't remember exactly which Deep Space 9 novel it was, and I read so many, but I remember getting a chuckle when rereading a DS9 book and Sisko tells Jadzia that she "should have been a counselor", to which Jadzia replies, "How boring", which was an unintentionally ironic reply considering the next Dax symbiote wound up being a counselor.

 

[NCC-73515]

The high-octane film directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi evokes more of a Jason Statham vibe than a traditional Starship Enterprise episode.

"Philippa Georgiou is a walking weapon. You know, every part of her can be (used as a weapon). Her nails, her choker ... you don't know where (it will come) from."

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“I think one of the big messages of the film is redemption, that even people who’ve committed heinous acts have within them an opportunity to redeem themselves, to heal and to make things right,” Kacey Rohl, who plays Starfleet officer Rachel Garrett—the future captain of the Enterprise-C as seen in the TNG episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise”—told io9. “That’s something to think about [right now].”

Redemption is their key—you’ve gotta figure out how to not cast a stone, because all of us could be caught up on what we did wrong. I think this movie really pushes that narrative again, in a pretty cool way.”

like all things Star Trek, it mirrors conversations we’re having about our real word, and to me that’s what makes it beautiful: it’s a mirror, it holds itself up to our world and asks us to reflect on the lives we’re living, and the way we’re living them. Section 31 is doing exactly that.”

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Bad timing this week...

It follows Emperor Philipa Georgiou, the rogue, wayward empress of the Terran Empire of the Mirror Universe, currently in hiding from Section 31 after the events of “Star Trek Discovery” season 3 two-parter Terra Firma. She would be recruited by Section 31 Agent Alok (Omari Hardwick) to lead a wayward team of misfits to

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obtain a mysterious device from one of her clients at her nightclub. But as events further transpire, she learns of the device’s true nature and connections to her past in the Terran Empire.

the entire ethos of this Olatunde Osunsanmi-directed and Craig Sweeney-scripted film resembles “Suicide Squad” (2016). From the recruitment of the team to the character introduction utilizing freeze frames and voice-over by Yeoh to the banter between the team members, “Section 31” fails to overcome the feeling of a 13-episode season smashed into a badly edited 100-minute film.

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Alok’s past being connected to the Eugenics Wars

But even as a generic sci-fi action film, the story is quite thinly plotted; the action set pieces, while conceptually ingenious, are rather bafflingly edited, with Osunsanmi utilizing a lot of crash zooms and disorienting camera movements that ultimately render the film’s simpler and visceral moments harder to enjoy.

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The minor spoilers suggest that

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the device itself is from the Mirror universe, and that Alok is an Augment, which is why he's very old and has been frozen for a while, as the actor said before

 

[fireproof78]

think one of the big messages of the film is redemption, that even people who’ve committed heinous acts have within them an opportunity to redeem themselves, to heal and to make things right,”

No one can ever even begin to save men unless he first believes in them. A man is a hell-deserving sinner, but he has also a sleeping hero in his soul, and often a word of praise will awaken that sleeping heroism when criticism and condemnation will only produce resentment and despair.

 

[Lord Garth]

I bet a few years have passed, from Georgiou's perspective, since "Terra Firma".

 

[locborg]

Oh boy, i hate to be always right.

Anyway, i am super confident with my vote and my reasoning behind it.

Also, i think its time for some apologies from you guys…

 

[Nerys Myk]

Nah

 

[MakeshiftPython]

Oh boy, i hate to be always right.

Anyway, i am super confident with my vote and my reasoning behind it.

Also, i think its time for some apologies from you guys…

Why would anyone owe you an apology when you haven’t even seen it yourself?

 

[Tosk]

Oh boy, i hate to be always right.

Anyway, i am super confident with my vote and my reasoning behind it.

Also, i think its time for some apologies from you guys…

I think everyone should apologize and praise you as the only person who was brave enough to say that this looked like shit based on the trailers.

 

[Firebird]

Also, i think its time for some apologies from you guys…

 

[Nerys Myk]

Most of the board thought the trailer was lame and are expecting the worst. No one gets a medal.

 

[MakeshiftPython]

I wasn’t expecting the worst, but the trailers certainly never gave me much to be enthused about. Mirror Georgiou has always been a character I found very difficult to feel any empathy for.

 

[Tosk]

Most of the board thought the trailer was lame and are expecting the worst. No one gets a medal.

Not even a participation one?

 

[Turtletrekker]

Yeah, I've always been of the opinion going into this that I had high hopes but low expectations. I will still watch it at first opportunity, it's not as if it will be the first time that I've spent a couple of hours watching bad Star Trek (going all the way back to the original series), but I'm not expecting much more than a couple hours of mindless sci-fi action.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Not even a participation one?

 

[Tosk]

 

[Mage]

Also, i think its time for some apologies from you guys…

I don't even know who you are.

 

[fireproof78]

Most of the board thought the trailer was lame and are expecting the worst. No one gets a medal.

Indeed.

People said, "Hey, this looks lame."


Y'all going to not watch and prove them right?

 

[NCC-73515]

- the direct-to-streaming Star Trek film Section 31 has initiated a core breach in my soul, and my reaction is simple: “This isn’t Star Trek.”
- 100 minutes of generic schlock containing only trace elements of Star Trek
- knows to copy from The Hunger Games and Guardians of the Galaxy (and X-Men and The Fifth Element) but doesn’t know a damn thing about being original. Or engaging.
- writer Craig Sweeny and director Olatunde Osunsanmi completely bungled the entire Trek ethos
- nothing but a lousy, uninteresting caper picture with middling special effects, bad acting (yes, even Yeoh), cringeworthy dialogue, and characters you don’t care about.
- Yeoh’s Everything Everywhere All at Once pal Jamie Lee Curtis handing out assignments
- Fuzz not a Vulcan, but rather a microscopic organism in a tiny spaceship inside a Vulcan-shaped Golem body
- it’s best to just consider Section 31 an aberration and move on
- Keep away from this at all costs

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The Michelle Yeoh fronted spin-off movie Section 31 is 100 minutes of generic schlock containing only trace elements of Star Trek.

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[Nerys Myk]

- the direct-to-streaming Star Trek film Section 31 has initiated a core breach in my soul, and my reaction is simple: “This isn’t Star Trek.”
- 100 minutes of generic schlock containing only trace elements of Star Trek
- knows to copy from The Hunger Games and Guardians of the Galaxy (and X-Men and The Fifth Element) but doesn’t know a damn thing about being original. Or engaging.
- writer Craig Sweeny and director Olatunde Osunsanmi completely bungled the entire Trek ethos
- nothing but a lousy, uninteresting caper picture with middling special effects, bad acting (yes, even Yeoh), cringeworthy dialogue, and characters you don’t care about.
- Yeoh’s Everything Everywhere All at Once pal Jamie Lee Curtis handing out assignments
- Fuzz not a Vulcan, but rather a microscopic organism in a tiny spaceship inside a Vulcan-shaped Golem body
- it’s best to just consider Section 31 an aberration and move on
- Keep away from this at all costs

Star Trek: Section 31 Review - IGN

The Michelle Yeoh fronted spin-off movie Section 31 is 100 minutes of generic schlock containing only trace elements of Star Trek.

www.ign.com

Now I wish it was out sooner!

 

[NCC-73515]

- so interested, desperate even, in communicating its quirky tone that it forgets to ask anything remotely interesting about its premise, or the loaded intent behind its title as a movie about Section 31 and its place in Star Trek‘s universe
- pacing is awkward and jarring, moving from one moment to the next quick enough to never let the film sit with its characters or the stakes of the plot to have anything meaningful to convey
- lacklustre cinematography and editing that often obscures the impact of the action
- struggles to convey any kind of meaningful identity for itself

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