10 Worst Star Trek Moments In 2025

10. Chaos, But To Who's Benefit?

She may be a bad bitch, but Michelle Yeoh's ex-Emperor Georgiou walked a very fine line of being just, well, bad in January of 2025. Star Trek: Section 31 arrived at the end of the first month of the year and kicked things off with a whimper, earning the ire of many Trek fans along the way.

No project is entirely without merit, and it is clear that, while the result may have been a bit of a flop, this streaming movie had a long and storied history. It began as a series and then, with the arrival of a certain gold statuette, evolved into a stand-alone story. The trailer dropped in 2024, leaving people a little bit confused. Was this Star Trek, or was this Guardians of the Galaxy? As it turned out, it wanted to be a little bit of both and ended up being a lot of neither.

Some of the humour managed to land, and Omari Hardwick and Rob Kazinski's Alok Sahar and Zeph managed to steal the screen for the time given, but the film suffered from pacing issues, mixed tones, and an overall toothless feel. 

The time setting did little to help, teasing the audience with the Lost Era but delivering something closer to Lost in Headlights. Quippy dialogue is fun and welcome, but here it felt included for quip's sake, leaving character building on the floor for someone else to tidy up. 

The entire affair came and went without much fanfare, despite decent viewership numbers on Paramount+. Later in the year, Paramount's new head of streaming, Cindy Holland, seemingly killed any hopes (we're sure there are some) of a sequel, ensuring that the audience understood that "streaming movies are not a priority" for her. 

Considering how much ragebait this straight-to-streaming release generated both before and after it arrived, one has to wonder - what was the point after all?