Wasn't the actual facility deep underground?
Kirk and Spock had never heard of the organization before
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Kirk and Spock had never heard of the organization before
Two people who've never heard of a secret organization is hardly proof that said organization is completely secret to everyone.
They are considering they look different in what is supposedly the same continuity.
It was "a top secret branch of Starfleet", under the control of the head of Starfleet, complete with underground arms caches and shipbuilding facilities. Compare to DS9, where it was a rogue organisation with no headquarters and no oversight.
Discovery's Section 31 is common knowledge among offers and last episode they answered to Admiral Cornwell.
It's a pretty good sign though, since one of those two people is Spock (and Kirk isn't an idiot, he would know the name of Starfleet intelligence agencies). Section 31, in DS9 and the Kelvinverse, is presented as a secret police that keep their existence secret. The head of Section 31, also the head of Starfleet, reveals their existence to Kirk and Spock as part of his plotting, but also says it was a "top-secret branch", meaning, I gather, that only a select few are even aware of its existence.
Unlike Discovery, the Kelvinverse does a good job at keeping the mystery around 31 and maintaining it as a rogue agency. Especially if we remember that Marcus is lying most of the time.
Klingons: come on, be fair. In TOS, they were dudes with brown facepaint. You could argue the same every time there's a change in optics.
Section 31: no, Mickey worked at the library. That was officially very much not at all Section 31.
The DSC Klingons get a pass from me, because there was a specific story reason why they needed to be changed so radically. But if there wasn't, there's absolutely no reason why they couldn't have looked exactly like humans (oily facepainted skin not withstanding). With enough Klingon-like garb, sashes and weapons, they would have looked fine.
How did he get into the Section 31 facility without being spotted?
Officially, that building in London was an archive. Harewood worked at the archive. Really, though, he was 31.
He worked there, but publicly, it wasn't Section 31. Section 31 was inside the archive or library or whatever.
As for the Klingons, I guess I just don't care if their look changes or not, as long as the stories still work.
As far as the general public knows, he walked into a building labeled "Kelvin Memorial Archive", passed through security, and got in a turbolift. He went down when they presumably thought he went up.
That being said, it's odd to hide a giant super-secret underground lab in the middle of London. It would be more appropriate to stick in in the Nevada desert, say...
...or on another planet entirely.
That's the last place you'd expect to look. That said, it might've been some MI-6 underground bunker, back in the day, carved out and expanded.
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