As Jonathan Archer may put it, “it’s been a long road, getting from there to here.” However, we now know that the eagerly anticipated streaming original Star Trek: Section 31 will debut in January.
Star Michelle Yeoh kept the project going despite its various changes throughout the years. Section 31 director Olatunde Osunsanmi discussed the project’s challenging beginnings with Therese Lacson of Collider at New York Comic Con in the Collider Studio.
According to Osunsanmi:
Michelle came up with the idea for this project. She took it to Alex [Kurtzman], who then took it to Paramount Pictures and the Roddenberrys, where it was first broadcast as a television program. Next it came together, then it broke apart, then it came together again. I worked only on films before I moved into television, and I found that things constantly fell apart there, so you have to try to be calm. You have to be calm about it, even though it’s heartbreaking. I was like, “Okay, well, I know what this is,” when I was on television. All I can do is wait and hope that it improves. For me, this process was special because I had a studio that truly believed in it, no matter what we went through, and a wonderful producer in Michelle Yeoh and Alex Kurtzman. In addition, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth, who consistently support our efforts here, are part of Star Trek.
Now that the project is complete, though, he is also worried about how the endeavour will be received by the frequently picky Star Trek fan community.
Then you fast-forward to the present, and we’ve finished the movie. You think, “Oh my god.” After pushing the boulder up the hill, we now face the added pressure of proving it to the world. Did we do everything we could to make it as Star Trek as possible, yet still failed? Furthermore, for it to be the greatest thing that it could be? I hope you agree that we’ve got it there.
When Star Trek: Section 31 debuts on Paramount+ on January 24, 2025, you can make up your mind.
‘Star Trek: Section 31’: What Is It?
Yeoh’s Philippa Georgiou, the former head of the corrupted Terran Empire in the Mirror Universe, is followed in Star Trek: Section 31 after she is taken to a different era of the Star Trek timeline. She will be employed there as a member of Section 31, a covert Starfleet intelligence agency that uses unethical means to protect the Federation. This organisation was first explored in Deep Space Nine and again in Discovery, when their artificial intelligence nearly wiped out all intelligent life in the galaxy. A young Philippa Georgiou will be portrayed by Miku Martineau (Kate), while Omari Hardwick (Power), Kacey Rohl (Hannibal), Sam Richardson (Detroiters), Sven Ruygrok (One Piece), Robert Kazinsky (Pacific Rim), Humberly Gonzalez (Ginny & Georgia), and James Hiroyuki Liao (Barry) will join Yeoh.
Craig Sweeny wrote the script for Star Trek: Section 31, and Kurtzman, Sweeny, Aaron Baiers, Osunsanmi, Yeoh, and others are executive producers. On January 24, 2025, Star Trek: Section 31 will debut on Paramount+. For our coverage of the New York Comic Con, keep checking Collider throughout the weekend.
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