Star Trek and horror age as old a pairing as TOS.
This.
Don't bother. The common truth around these parts is Section 31 sucks and no one likes it.
Beyond Yeoh being a great actor, there isn’t much positive about Section 31.
A marvelous lead actor - and the character of Rachel Garrett - utterly wasted in the most mediocre, paper-thin Trek I've seen in memory.
I thought that Barram Station was an interesting location with lots of potential.
I liked their opera singer too
I was one of the few who didn't mind the Cheronian character. Of all the movie's failings the Cheronian wasn't in the top tier of problems.
The script's reach far exceeded its grasp in every aspect.
The Vulcan mech suit with the Irish accent was just abominable, though. 
Agreed.The Vulcan mech suit with the Irish accent was just abominable, though.
Star Trek and a problematic relationship with the Irish - name a more iconic combination.The Vulcan mech suit with the Irish accent was just abominable, though.
When Harry Kim kissing a cow is the least offensive part of an Irish-themed Star Trek story, we're all in trouble.
And the garbage O'Brien must suffer meme.
This thread and the word "problematic".
Maybe the most obnoxious moment I've ever seen from all of Trek was when introducing the character, he opens his mouth wide open to allow the camera to "travel" down his esophagus to show the microscopic being that controls the mech suit.The Vulcan mech suit with the Irish accent was just abominable, though.
I already disliked Olatunde Osunsanmi's directing style and how he seems to just love doing these crazy camera tricks with little to no motivation, but for whatever reason that just took it over the top for me. He somehow made J.J. Abrams look like a craftsman. If there's good news about the Kurtzman era coming to an end, it's that Osunsanmi will never direct Trek again.
If people like this movie, more power to them. IDIC is a Trek way of life, but....yikes.
Shhh don't listen to him physical copy of Section 31 on my shelf before TNG because chronological order makes me happy.
While shows like Discovery and Picard largely left me cold (despite mostly featuring cool concepts and characters), this “Kurtzman era” also brought about some of my favorite Star Trek of all time, like Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds and now Starfleet Academy. So I find it hard to take seriously the idea that it actually “torpedoed the franchise” causing any sort of damage, let alone the worst it has ever seen.
As for Section 31, I was bored to tears by whatever they tried to do with that forgettable waste of a Trek production, but I would still say some of the characters were really cool. I really liked Garrett, Quasi, Alok and Virgil. If only they existed in a more competently crafted film.
As for Section 31, I was bored to tears by whatever they tried to do with that forgettable waste of a Trek production, but I would still say some of the characters were really cool. I really liked Garrett, Quasi, Alok and Virgil. If only they existed in a more competently crafted film.
Far be it from me to be perceived as defending this let-down of a “movie”, but this particular shot certainly seemed motivated to me by needing to establish that the character wasn’t that outer shell we were seeing, but a microscopic being inside of it. I would think you almost have to do it like they did it here, because just cutting away to the alien inside the body would absolutely not have the same effect. I would also argue that it being a little off-putting and obnoxious was also the intention of the sequence, as that character is certainly meant to be seen as shady and questionable.
"Like" maybe too strong a word, but I do consider the movie an occasional guilty pleasure. Much like the Roger Corman produced Fantastic Four movie, which is objectively awful, I do find a particular enjoyment in it.
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It's unlikely, to put it mildly, but I'd like to be able to see the work that had been done on Section 31 as a TV series by its writing staff before it was decided to do a movie and handed over to someone else who hadn't been involved in developing it.
As for the movie itself, the reaction I had when it was over was, if they'd started without the annoying characters who got killed off and just used the characters still alive at the end, it would have been better. The story ends where it should have begun.
As for the movie itself, the reaction I had when it was over was, if they'd started without the annoying characters who got killed off and just used the characters still alive at the end, it would have been better. The story ends where it should have begun.
I think I would have liked to have seen more of Melle (metaphorically of course
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