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Spoilers Section 31 General Discussion Thread

A Section 31 series. Yay or nay?

  • Yay, a Section 31 series!

    Votes: 80 40.0%
  • Nay, give us anything else instead!

    Votes: 120 60.0%

  • Total voters
    200
I'm gonna try very hard to watch this as if it were not actually Star Trek and see whether it's worth a pinch of shit even as a generic space adventure movie. My hopes, even with that artificially-lowered bar, are still rock bottom.
 
I'm gonna try very hard to watch this as if it were not actually Star Trek and see whether it's worth a pinch of shit even as a generic space adventure movie. My hopes, even with that artificially-lowered bar, are still rock bottom.
Yeah, that's kind of how I see it as well.
 
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Of course I’ll still watch this. I’ve watched about over 800 hours of Star Trek. Plenty of them were absolute shit, but that didn’t stop me.

I’m just bummed this may not be enjoyably bad like “Spock’s Brain” or “Sub Rosa”, so bad that you can’t help but laugh.
 
What’s described of this new character doesn’t sound like the androids/golem/synth we’ve seen before in the past. It’s not like there was a hamster inside Data’s head… or was there?
 
The next big Trek release is a franchise first: the streaming movie Star Trek: Section 31, arriving on Paramount+ in January (and SkyShowtime in February). Development on the project was first announced back in 2019, but it took a while to get going and was finally announced as a streaming movie last year. Now the director is talking about how the project went through big changes along the way as well as what could come next.

Development of the “Section 31” television series starring Michelle Yeoh was announced as a spin-off of Star Trek: Discovery just as that series was kicking off its second season. A writers room was set up under the Discovery writer/producer team of Bo Yeon Kim and Erika Lippoldt, who were joined by Discovery writer Craig Sweeny. As other projects within the Trek universe moved forward, including Picard and Strange New Worlds, the Section 31 project struggled to get out of space dock and eventually Bo Yeon Kim and Erika Lippoldt exited the Trek universe for greener pastures at Netflix to become showrunners of Sweet Tooth.

 
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Meh, good or bad, I'll still be watching. I'm a MST3K fan, so it being a bad movie has no effect on my enjoyment levels. It might actually make it more fun to watch. Would I have preferred it to be an amazing film? Sure. But I try to be a glass half full kinda guy.
 
So, everyone not watching now, right?
When I said I'd been talked out of watching The Acolyte because of bad reviews people rolled their eyes and said I listened to other people's opinions too much instead of making up my own. So there's really no right answer to this. Either I watch it and I'm an idiot for throwing my time away or I don't watch it and I'm a sheep.

Right now I'm leaning toward watching it, just so I can stay in the discussion, but only if my brother watches it with me. If I'm going through this, I'm not going through it alone.
 
When I said I'd been talked out of watching The Acolyte because of bad reviews people rolled their eyes and said I listened to other people's opinions too much instead of making up my own. So there's really no right answer to this. Either I watch it and I'm an idiot for throwing my time away or I don't watch it and I'm a sheep.

Right now I'm leaning toward watching it, just so I can stay in the discussion, but only if my brother watches it with me. If I'm going through this, I'm not going through it alone.
I wasn't going to watch but Ireland is going into an extreme weather lockdown tomorrow so I will have a lot of time to kill.
 
I don't get why fans value their time so little.

This is truly blowing my mind.
What is? That Star Trek fans a going to check out a new Star Trek production, even if they suspect they won’t like it? What’s so strange about that? If this were just any random production not connected to Trek, sure, I can see why one would consider that a waste of time to watch for someone who expects they won’t like it. But surely you can wrap your head around the idea that a Trek fan would watch new Trek purely to check it out, be able to talk about it online or offline with friends, or even just because it can be fun to watch something bad and find in enjoyment in how bad it is.

I can certainly get that you yourself wouldn’t do that, but having “your mind truly blown” by the idea that other might seems a tad hyperbolic.
 
I expect I'll like it. Even if not, it's a distraction from King Orange. I've focused on S31, while everyone else I know in Real Life has focused on the other thing. I've valued the distraction. I'd say it's probably the real reason I'm taking such a deep dive into this.

And you know what? Even if S31 turns out to be shit, in the process I've discovered a lot of good-to-great Michelle Yeoh films that I probably wouldn't have watched if this didn't prompt me to.
 
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