The first episode of the long-awaitedStar Trek: DiscoveryspinoffStar Trek: Strange New Worldswill be arriving for streaming on Paramount+ on May 5th, 2022, but what about thatotherspinoff ofDiscovery, theMichelle Yeoh-frontedStar Trek: Section 31series? In an interview with Entertainment Weekly about the new movie she stars in,Everything Everywhere All at Once, Yeoh shared some tantalizing details about the upcoming show, saying it is completely different from previous outings in theStar Trekgalaxy and compared its tone to two beloved franchises.
“Section 31is that universe but different,” Yeoh toldEntertainment Weekly. “It’s likeMission: ImpossiblemeetsGuardians of the Galaxyin space.”
TheStar TrekUniverse only continues to expand. So far this year, there hasn’t been a week without a new episode of aStarTrekshow, with fresh entries inStar Trek: Prodigy,Star Trek: Discovery, orStar Trek: Picardarriving each Thursday. For the duration of 2022, Trekkies can look forward to the remainder ofPicard’s second season, making first contact withStrange New Worldsnext month, the third season ofStar Trek: Lower Decksthis summer, and the next batch ofProdigyepisodes later this year.
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Star Trek: Picard is Ending After Season 3
It looks as though Paramount is hoping to continue that trend into the future. However, if there’s anyone who knows that all good things must end, it’s Captain – that is, Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart). The star of the currently ongoingPicardseries will appear alongside the best-known crew of the Federation Starship U.S.S.Enterprise-Dthanks to the fact that the main cast ofStar Trek: The Next Generationis returning to reprise their roles for the upcoming third season.
But Paramount also recently announced that the third season ofPicardwould be its last. While this will give the opportunity forPicardto ride the high of its stellar, time-shattering second season into the final act, it does make it clear to keep up with a weeklyStar Trekepisode that Paramount will have to ensure they’ve always got multiple shows set in the universe in production.
EnterSection 31! The long-rumored spinoff centers on the eponymous espionage organization. First seen inStar Trek: Deep Space Nine, which explored some seedier corners of the quadrant afterStar Trek: The Original SeriesandTNGfocused on the pristine and aspirational flagshipEnterprise,Section 31is willing to take questionably moral steps without becoming bogged down by Starfleet sentimentality. We got a better idea of how this shadowy organization came to be in a few episodes ofStar Trek: Enterprise(and if you’re wondering if they’re still around, onLower Decks, Eugene Cordero’s Rutherford is still pretty afraid of them).
Given that Yeoh’s character, former Terran Emperor Philippa Georgiou, was last seen traversing a temporal portal opened by the Guardian of Forever (yes,thatGuardian of Forever, although looking a bit different and now played by Paul Guilfoyle), there are plenty of possibilities for where on the timeline thisDiscoveryspinoff might land.
