Star Trek: Everything We Know About Section 31 (The Movie)

Ooooh, canapés! Ewww, canapés! I do hope that eyeball on a stick in the teaser trailer was molecularly synthesised or replicated, though I have a nauseous feeling it wasn't. This is Georgiou, after all. She used to eat her own Kelpiens. The Emperor has returned! We don't know how she bumps back into Section 31 after her trip from 32nd century Dannus V, but it looks to be gastronomic.

On the surface, this movie is two things: a piece of "spy-fi," as Alex Kurtzman phrased it, and What Philippa Did Next. Balancing and blending both is a difficult ask, especially without an entire season to back it up. Georgiou's also got previous with the organisation about half a century prior. In the April 2023 'it's a movie' announcement, Georgiou "joins," not re-joins, "[the] secret division of Starfleet," however. Between semantics and espionage, things will explode.

Part of the point of Section 31, the series, Alex Kurtzman told the Hollywood Reporter in 2019, was to explain how the spy group had gone from practically public knowledge in the mid-23rd century to "underground" by the late 24th. In the teaser trailer for the now movie, Rachel Garrett — a lieutenant's eyes only — calls Section 31 a "black ops division". That's hardly top of the buried top secret, then, but it is perhaps approaching Luther Sloane at the foot of your bed.