When Star Trek: Section 31 beamed onto Paramount+ last week, it did so with a bit of a malfunction—and landed with an almighty thud. The first Star Trek movie (streaming or otherwise) in years was immediately scathed by many critics, and now fan reactions have been similarly unkind, warping Section 31 right into first place on the most […]
3 Things We Liked, and 7 We Didn’t, About Star Trek: Section 31
Section 31 had a lot stacked up against it—not just as Star Trek‘s first streaming movie, but one controversially centered around one of the franchise’s most divisive concepts—even before reviews this week largely slammed the film. But now that the film is out, we can take a look at just where the film falls flat… […]
The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You’re Nervous About the Movie
This week, Star Trek returns to the world of movies with a very different spin: not just in format, in the first streaming-exclusive movie the franchise has ever seen, but in perspective, as Section 31 shines the spotlight on one of the darkest ideas to ever emerge from Trek‘s utopian vision. From the moment it was introduced in Deep […]
Section 31 Is a Mediocre Action Movie, and an Even Worse Star Trek One
There have now been 14 Star Trek movies over the last 50 years and yet the franchise has always had a bit of a reputation of cinematic struggle on the big screen. From the filmic continuations of the original show all the way to the Kelvin Timeline reboots, Star Trek has always been dogged with […]
Everything to Remember Before Star Trek: Section 31
This week Star Trek boldly goes with the first major movie of its streaming era: Section 31, a long-in-the-works former series turned into a streaming movie vehicle for Michelle Yeoh, returning to the franchise for the first time since she exited Discovery in 2020. But aside from the controversial spy organization that gives the film its name, […]
Deep Space Nine Understood the Fantasy of Spies—and Their Reality
In just under a week, the next Star Trek project arrives in the form of Section 31, a streaming movie starring Michelle Yeoh diving into the titular black ops organization—one that, at least in all the footage we’ve seen so far, puts an emphasis on the glitz and glam of secret agent work. There’s action, there’s dazzling […]