Star Trek: Section 31 Beams Into Action This January

Back astatine San Diego Comic-Con, Paramount revealed our archetypal look astatine the long-awaited Michelle Yeoh Star Trek: Discovery spinoff, Section 31. From the agelong roadworthy of a TV show successful the earliest days of Trek‘s streaming enlargement to present a streaming-exclusive movie headlined by an Oscar-winning actress, the footage was bound to marque a splash either way.

Paramount didn’t diagnostic a much extended trailer for Section 31 at New York Comic Con during its Star Trek Universe sheet that paints a clearer representation of conscionable however Yeoh’s Discovery character—the erstwhile Emperor of the Terran Empire successful the Mirror Universe turned kind of good, Phillipa Georgiou—finds herself wrapped up successful a precise absorbing clip for a precise absorbing pouch of Starfleet successful the secret constabulary division, Section 31. Instead, it offered a merchandise day of January 24, 2025, and a snazzy caller poster, which you tin spot below.

The archetypal trailer features a astonishing spot of glitz and glamour for a movie that is astir an enactment with a arguable and grim past successful Star Trek lore, the achromatic ops part operating successful shadiness to compromise its ain morals for the involvement of safeguarding the lofty ones held by the Federation astatine large. In the film, Georgiou acts arsenic a spot of a chaos cause to the different much self-serious espionage astatine play, peculiarly since she’s besides got a ragtag squad down her.

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Of those caller faces, the large gully volition beryllium a caller look playing a acquainted one: Kacey Rohl arsenic a young Rachel Garrett, the skipper of the Enterprise-C introduced successful the TNG occurrence “Yesterday’s Enterprise.” That not gives bequest Trek fans a spot of canonical intrigue, it besides firmly places Section 31 astatine a constituent successful clip that’s not lone chaotic to get Georgiou successful (even arsenic she’s pinged astir from the clip of classic Star Trek each the mode to Discovery‘s acold aboriginal successful the 31st century), but 1 the franchise has seldom explored successful detail, a nascent epoch betwixt the events of the archetypal bid and The Next Generation.

We’ll spot conscionable what threats to the Federation necessitate bringing Section 31 in—and bringing a chaotic paper similar Georgiou in, too—when Star Trek: Section 31 hits Paramount+ connected Friday, January 31, 2025.

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