Star Trek: Section 31

Hi, my name is Crewman Daniels. Just to let you know, the Section 31 show is utter honk.

Reviewer on Ireland AM this morning said this was a good Action movie. I think that tells us all we need to know that it will be sh!it. Even the devices in it are not right for there time also he said Section 31 were heros who saved the Universe lol. Just goes to show how little he knows and how bad this will be by the sounds of it. Section 31 are supposed to be the unofficial Federation spy agency as we know like the Romulans Tal Shiar or the Cardassians Obsidian order. That is what they are meant to be.

Just curious. Did anyone ever here what the Klingon Spy agency is called? No great empire could survive without one.

I wonder do the Ferengi have one. You would think it woukd be easier for them with their super sensitive hearing.

Where are ye getting these reviews from ?

I can't find anything.

Im pretty shocked this was on Ireland AM's radar.

Ireland AM I think do a review of what's coming up on streaming platforms so Section 31 is probably a highlight of this week rather than them being more into Trek or scifi. The TV slot usually gives a decent run through of what's going to drop.

Can't imagine Tommy Bowe got exclusive access to advance screenings of Star Trek 🤣

IGN has absolutely slammed the film.

No surprise there. How this ever got made will be a mystery to me, it was obvious from the beginning it wasn’t for Trek fans and it’s not even fun for everyone else.

Throwing Rachel Garrett in sums up the current state of Trek leadership, no regard for the canon or universe that was built over 50 years, just throw out any old crap and give Trek fans a name that they recognise.

It's actually true.

The Vulcan looking guy is a robot controlled by a tiny alien inside his head.

Jesus wept.

Its as bad as they say it is. I am 42 minutes in and that's enough for me. It's just pure rubbish. Such a waste of film or code whatever it's on. The first 9 minutes are bearable that's about it. It's all downhill after that. It could have been good but just goes downhill then. Even them first 9 minutes are not very Star Trek they are more like something out of Dune. Fair play to anyone who manages to finish this rubbish but I will not be one of them.

I dont know if I'll watch it at all. If I dont, it will be the first live action outing of trek that I won't have seen.

Being a die hard trekkie, I might go back and have a goose some some day. But I actually find the reviews shocking. When the shills who praised discovery s4 and 5, tell u this is BAD, VERY, VERY BAD. then you know its well shy of the mark..

Stay safe trekkies, I lookforward to reading more of your thoughts

From the first sentence of the article:

…Section 31, a movie that, in our eyes, marks the first fail of the new Star Trek…

Still a bit biased by the looks of it. I wonder what happened…did the perks from Paramount dry up or something?

But yea…it’s sounding pretty bad. A general question for those brave souls who did watch: Is there any interesting stuff related to the Lost Era featured (beyond the inclusion of Garrett)? The only thing that might have grabbed my attention would have been a lean into Lost Era, and potential a feel of a more advanced version of the TOS movie era.

If nothing like that happens, this show he nothing at all to offer I feel.

Didn't hate it as much as I expected to! How's that for faint praise 😄

I've always liked the idea of "Star Trek is a place", as opposed to a particular set of people or style of story telling. Like there's a lot of stories and styles told in the place of "Dublin, Ireland" – just as there can be different stories and styles told in the place of "Star Trek". And this one certainly isn't the same type of story or style as TNG, DS9, Voy, LD, SNW. It's slightly difficult to even compare them.

So the TNG fan in me just checked out after the first 5 minutes or so, but the schloky sci-fi action movie fan in me stuck around and thought it was… fine? Or fun enough anyway.

Really felt like a reworked pilot for a TV show, which I believe it was? All the main characters are given elaborate set-ups and almost none of it pays off. Deltan? Well, not for long. Chamelioid? So what. Rachel Garret? Nobody cares. Exile from the 20th century eugenics wars? No consequence. I imagine they'll all get their exposition episode in the first seas… oh.

I put it on 2x speed past a few of the fight / action scenes. To each their own; I tend to zone out during that stuff anyway. Just blah blah blah, skip to the end and show me who's still standing.

The story? Big bomb's going to blow up the universe. Whatever.

It's also very Discovery-adjacent, with the writing, direction, camera work (can't stand still for half a second), and visuals. But I think due to it being a) just 90 minutes long, and b) actually and explicitly nothing much to do with Starfleet or the TOS/TNG part of the "Star Trek" place that we're used to, I kinda think I might prefer this to most of Discovery. Again, faint praise! I hated most of Discovery.

But if they can keep that Disco-energy contained in just one of these every couple or few years, maybe they can also do the odd 90 minutes of the Star Trek stories I do enjoy. That wouldn't be too bad at all.

Will watch it tonight. But after reading the reviews online and in here my expectations are so, so, low, it's might not be as bad anymore.

I think it's better than Discovery only because it stays well well away from everything got to do with Star Trek.

Discovery had to constantly reference stuff it didn't really understand or fuk with established Trek history.

This I watched as a stand alone the same way I would some generic sci-fi show not called Star Trek.