Section 31 works for the Federation. It's mission is to protect the Federation by any means necessary, even if it sometimes requires being at odds with Starfleet.
What storylines do you NOT want to see in Trek?
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I've actually wondered about this ... All of the officers we've seen (so far) working for Section 31 are human. Since Section 31 predates the Federation, and cites language from the document creating the original United Earth Starfleet as its authority, is Section 31's fidelity to Earth or the Federation as a whole?
The interests of Earth and the Federation usually run hand-in-hand, but if they were to ever diverge, would Section 31 put the interests of Earth and humanity before the rest of the Federation?
Yes. They no doubt orchestrated Earth's separation from the UFP after the Burn.
Like Starfleet, Section 31 started off as an Earth organization, but its mission expanded to include the Federation afterwards.
There probably are some non-Humans working for Section 31--perhaps we'll see some in the upcoming movie--but I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority of its personnel are Human simply due to its origins.
I think one of the best things Picard did was reuniting Hugh and Picard and seeing the storylines of the ExB's and the PTSD that came with it. Unfortunately they dropped that storyline, but I feel like that is the storyline that should have weaved its way throughout the entire Picard series and you could still do Season 3 as originally planned with some modifications. The fact that they didn't was a huge missed opportunity.
Pretty sure we’ve already seen several, on both Discovery and Picard?
I don't mind it, I can put enough "Limitations" around it that it won't be overly abused now that we know enough about it's current limits.
I want more spore drive and the brings that live in it.
I concur, it shouldn't happen nearly as often as it does.
Yeah, they were designed in a "Cool Way", but the interactions were a bit flat & overly simple.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of Vince Russo booking, shock factor for the sake of it.
The whole "X-Men Style" mutant powers of a child causing a great Calamity, that's one where I would GLADLY Time Travel to save countless lives & StarFleet.
Yup, Prodigy knows how to write a consistent, well told story.
Yeah, the Scientific Method needs to be presented properly.
I concur.
Star Trek rarely does that sort of stuff well.
Hey, I like StarShip operations and the adventures of a crew.
Yeah, I think Section: 31 should be portrayed closer to be like the "ALIAS" TV series.
That was my favorite JJ Abrams TV series and it worked for me.
But instead of SD-6 being the bad guys, I'd prfer Section 31 being the Good Guys, using less then honorable/reputable means to solve the problem.
You mean a Printer not made by HP (Hewlett Packard) who does countless # of things to make your life miserable.
They USED to, but now they're on their own, in the wild.
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Just needs a better hook.
I mean any printer.
I'm curious, if a bit pedantic, how often should it happen?
Mid to low Single Digit please.
For the whole series?
Franchise.
Less is More.
It's become too much of a Trope where we see a ship named Enterprise gets destroyed.
Then Plot Devices will either undo the destruction, or if it's a film or big event, it'll get destroyed.
Hell, the Enterprise-E gets destroyed Off-Screen and Worf claims it's "Not his Fault", which I'm inclined to believe.
They just "Casually" destroy a ship named Enterprise so damn often.
???
DS9 ended two years before the War on Terror even began.
I choose to believe the Enterprise E really was one of the Sovereign class ships seen in the battle in Prodigy's S1 finale. They all have NCC-1701-E on their hulls, though they also have USS Sovereign on their hulls as well.
Still, if one of them was the Enterprise E, it would fit the timeline and it really wouldn't have been Worf's fault. The only obstacle this theory has is that Matalas has said in interviews or tweets the E met its fate while on a classified mission which he hopes the novels will tackle. But I'm willing to ignore that for the far more logical theory that it was in the Prodigy S1 fleet.
I'd like to believe that Enterprise-E was severely damaged after the Prodigy S1 Finale, Worf transferred to a new posting due to the long repair times, and a new Captain took over, then lost the ship soon afterwards.
Again, trying to understand the perspective here from a franchise standpoint. I think it would be like any writing tool and depend greatly on the story told. I think Generations shows it being done poorly, while Beyond and ST III show it done better.
Generations showed me that StarFleet lacked basic OpSec and didn't confiscate any of Geordi's equipment to be validated for enemy subversion.
They lost a Galaxy Class StarShip due to planting Malware in Geordi's Visor to leak sensitive Shield Frequency Data to the enemy.
Basic StarFleet OpSec should've had Geordi have Numerous "Spare VISORs" stored on board the USS Enterprise in a safe room, if he gets captured, discard the old VISOR and put on a fresh new one.
Chuck it into the Replicator for disassembly into raw material.
Then the Enterprise wouldn't have leaked any sensitive data and the Duras Sisters would've been easily defeated.
Do you know how hard it is to maintain Operational Security when you have to deal with punk ass members of crew who do DUMB things like this.
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It's BAD enough that you have to deal with enemy leaking info, sometimes you have crew on board who can't maintain operational security.
People don't take "Operational Security" seriously enough IRL, much less in StarFleet.
The consequences can be FATAL if a shooting war breaks out.
So, done badly?
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