Star Trek: Sektion 31

As a massive Star Trek fan, I am deeply disappointed by the continued involvement of Olatunde Osunsanmi in directing Star Trek projects. His work on Discovery fundamentally missed what makes Star Trek special, and now he is repeating those same disastrous choices with Section 31. Even with a talented cast, he has dragged the franchise down with juvenile, uninspired ideas that already failed in Discovery.

This feels like a betrayal of what Star Trek stands for. Osunsanmi has managed to do the exact opposite of what Jon Favreau accomplished with Star Wars-instead of revitalising the franchise, he has dragged it into mediocrity. The result is not just a disappointment, but an embarrassment to the legacy of Star Trek.

I've just wasted 1:35:12 of my time watching something that should not be graced with the Star Trek name. The Section 31 of DS9 and Discovery has been camped up and made into a laughing stock. The plot was at best, paper thin and predictable. The characters were woefully shallow. The whole thing has sullied the Star Trek franchise and cast a dark shadow over the excellent series like Discovery, DS9, OST, and TNG. Who's ever idea this was needs to publish an apology to those of us who grew up with James T Kirk and watched every series through to Michael Burnham.

What makes matters worse is I sat through this train wreck until the end. The only thing I can hop that there are no plans for a sequel.

The only reason to call this a Star Trek movie is because they mention Starfleet several times. The cartoonish characters actually belong on Lower Decks, not in this mess. The story is rushed, the peril ridiculous and you get no time to process anything. Every alien species is brand new, with no chance for character development, other than their simplistic special abilities.

Michelle Yeoh is always good as Philippe Georgiou, but not as the lead character. She needs a moral foil to her narcissistic anrrogance and that's completely missing without someone like Michael Burnham.

This is obviously a pilot for a series that never happened... and that's a good thing. They need to stick with Starfleet stories.

What did I just watch, took me 3 attempts to force myself to watch this tat!

I'm sure Michelle was paid well and good for her, but this was quite a weak showing for her, really phoning it in.

Rest of the "gang" all trying to have banter like like Guardians. But none of the "humour" lands, if it is humour. All quite generic, with little to no character or any development or growth.

Story was written by a child that's had little experience of life and has only heard 3rd hand about Star Trek, as even for nuTrek has little to no feeling of proper Star Trek. Story is shallow, weak and paint by numbers. Guessed most story line within 1st 20 mins. Then had to slog through it.

Such a huge waste of money and resources, from those who pretend to care about the environment.

Kurztman whoes me an hour n half of my life back. The untalented hack.

Paramount announced a Section 31 Star Trek series several years ago. All about the amoral secret black ops division of Starfleet.

It would be a starring vehicle for Michelle Yeoh who plays genocidal Empress Philippa Georgiou in the mirror universe. She somehow ended up in Starfleet where she was the captain of the USS Discovery that got killed.

Once Yeoh won the best actress Oscar, the plans for the series went. Paramount retooled it as an one off film, maybe a recurring franchise.

This is a cheap knockoff Mission Impossible/Dirty Dozen/Suicide Squad hybrid. The

Section 31 members and former Philippa Georgiou look for a stolen doomsday weapon called the Godsend. There may also be a saboteur in the team.

The film is bogged down by a lazy plot. The most uninspiring members of the black ops team. Their introduction and attempts at humour was so ham fisted, I nearly switched off.