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Other than the dude from Veep [Sam Richardson as Quasi) and occasionally Sven Ruygrok who plays the Vulcan, the acting and character portrayal is mostly wooden and stereotypical. The script is by-the-book "action" with a veneer of science fiction. Many scenes are conventional fight sequences [whether hand-to-hand or space battles). It was incredibly tedious to watch this entire train wreck unfold.

I also suspect somebody green-lit the project only because Michelle Yeoh's name was attached to it, coming from her huge success in Everything, Everywhere, All At Once 3 years ago. And without the name "Star Trek" associated with this (and it's certainly mostly ST in name only), I doubt this script would have gotten any approval to be made.

In the long arc of history, this movie will likely be seen as some crappy B-Move Yeoh did. There will be those mystified that she fell so far from 2022 to 2025.

In my title I allude to "fan fiction". I am being a little hard on fan fiction if I compare this film to that, because fan fiction, even when it's terrible (some of it rises to the level of decent, but not great), still seems like it's made by mega-fans of the franchise, even if that gets in the way of a great product (because of too much "continuity porn", that relentless desire to reference past characters, situations, alien races, ships - almost anything that was on screen or even in a novel before). Section 31 seems more removed from Star Trek than Discovery or the 3 Kelvin movies, but overall seems kind of amateurish.