The promotion for Star Trek: Section 31 is kicking into higher gear with more being released by Paramount+. Today they have put out two new official video promos for the streaming movie starring Michelle Yeoh. Warning: There are some spoilers.
Georgiou’s story
The first video is a short animation that retells the story of Emperor Phillipa Georgiou. In the Section 31 movie Michelle Yeoh reprises her role originated in Star Trek: Discovery along with Miku Martineau who plays young Philippa Georgiou. This video touches on some of the new backstory from the movie of young Georgiou and ties it into her arc on Discovery.
Meet the new crew
A second video features members of the cast talking about their characters, including Yeoh. Section 31 introduces a number of additional characters and this video also features Omari Hardwick talking about Alok Sahar, Kacey Rohl on her younger Rachel Garrett, Sam Richardson on his Chameloid scientist Quasi, Sven Ruygrok as Fuzz who looks Vulcan but “is a species we have never seen before,” Humberly Gonzalez talking about her Deltan Melle, and Robert Kazinsky on his mech suit-wearing Zeph.
Friday
Star Trek: Section 31 will premiere on Friday, January 24, 2025, on Paramount+ in the U.S. and international markets where the service is available. It will debut in SkyShowtime markets in Europe on February 7. TrekMovie is still trying to confirm releases in other international markets.
More new Section 31 stuff from this week:
New Preview Images Reveal More From ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Streaming Movie
Watch: Michelle Yeoh Brings ‘Section 31’ Clip To Colbert, Talks Love Of Star Trek
And here is the official trailer released in December.
Keep up with news about the Star Trek Universe at TrekMovie.com.
That first promo left me hungering for a Star Trek animated film!
Interesting, but, I dunno, is this thing starting to look cliched?
Starting?
The Georgiou promo is pretty good. Love the animation in it. And nice they aren’t hiding from her past.
So the guy who looks like a Vulcan or a Romulan isn’t either but a ‘new’ alien? That feels like bare minimum effort to me but I guess they could’ve just made him look fully human to go as cheap as possible like some of the other aliens in Trek
It is interesting there is not one exotic looking alien on the team.
Mintakan maybe? Do tptb remember back to tng s3?
That can’t be them because they are still too primitive, especially in this period.
Here’s a review from Rolling Stone, which is pretty much exactly what I’d heard from my colleagues who have also seen it:
#11 After a very long wait, Section 31 — in which Yeoh’s Philippa Georgiou goes on a mission for Starfleet’s unofficial black-ops division — is… fine? It ignores the thorny moral questions that were a key part of Section 31 when the group was introduced on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in favor of a watered-down Mission: Impossible-style adventure, teaming Georgiou with various colorful rogues, including Sam Richardson as a shapeshifter. The fight scenes don’t make particularly great use of one of the greatest action stars of all time, but the movie’s got energy, some decent supporting performances, and does a few fun things on the margins of the Star Trek universe. The movies below it are outright bad. This is at worst harmless.
I’ve always thought that a Mission: Impossible-style spy adventure in the Star Trek universe would be fun to watch, so I’m looking forward to watching it. I’m sure the usual Fandom-Menace “NoT MaH StAr TrEk!1!!” types will bellyache and whinge about it, but that’s all they do anyway, so…whatever. Let ’em cry more; their saltiness sustains me.
Nobody hates Star Trek more than Star Trek fans