{"id":9539,"date":"2025-02-02T13:32:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T19:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=9539"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:51:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:51:53","slug":"star-trek-section-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=9539","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Section 31"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>People have been lining up to deride Section 31<\/a>, the most recent Star Trek movie that was originally supposed to be a TV series instead, and yeah, it definitely feels like a two episode pilot in a lot of ways. But is it really worse than Star Trek V<\/em>? It seriously isn’t. Come on<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This is not to say the movie isn’t problematic. As a story<\/em>, it’s perfectly fine. You take an anti-hero you’re already familiar with from previous stories, and she’s played by Michelle Yeoh in full scenery-chewing mode. And then you enlist her in a Suicide Squad<\/a> caper with several other misfits-in-search-of-redemption, and they’re off to save… I dunno, probably the quadrant? …from utter destruction, in about 90 minutes. Dark antihero capers full of impossible odds, inevitable betrayals, and sudden death are cool.<\/p>\n

But, and this is a big enough but that Mix-A-Lot is contractually obligated to like it:<\/p>\n

But, this is Star Trek. Section 31 is the least Roddenberry thing that was ever introduced into Trek, and The Suicide Squad<\/a> is about as big of a tonal mismatch with Trek as I can imagine, even when I acknowledge the existence of Section 31. (Which, if you don’t know, is the Federation’s black ops division.) So… yeah. As a story, it’s fine, like I already said. As a Star Trek<\/em> movie… I’m glad they didn’t make it a series instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People have been lining up to deride Section 31, the most recent Star Trek movie that was originally supposed to be a TV series instead, and yeah, it definitely feels like a two episode pilot in a lot of ways. But is it really worse than Star Trek V? It seriously isn’t. Come on. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[708,1348,91,93],"class_list":["post-9539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-mystery","tag-paramount","tag-sci-fi","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9542,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions\/9542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}