'Star Trek: Section 31' Dictates 2025 Release; Releases Teaser Trailer At Comic-Con
'Star Trek: Section 31' Dictates 2025 Release; Releases Teaser Trailer At Comic-Con
The film is going everywhere all at once next year on Paramount+
It’s Michelle Yeoh’s 62nd birthday! So it feels apt to finally get around to covering the portion of the Star Trek panel that occurred at San Diego Comic-Con Hall H that spotlighted her upcoming Paramount+ movie Star Trek: Section 31, which was previously developed as a series. Yeoh wasn’t there at the panel, cast mates Omari Hardwick, Sam Richardson, and Kacey Rohl, along with executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Olatunde Osunsanmi, who also directs, were. But like Colin Farrell and The Penguin, she was the one to introduce the trailer.
Yeoh reprises her Star Trek: Discovery role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou, a mirror universe counterpart of Michael Burnham’s first Captain, who was last seen returning to the Mirror Universe to avoid sickness related to displacement, joins a secret division of Starfleet. Tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets, she also must face the sins of her tyrannical past. That past includes her upbringing as a young child, who the trailer also reveals is played by Miku Martineau, and her rise to power.
After the panel, the panelists spoke to Variety about the film. Richardson, who plays a Quasi, a shapeshifting chameloid describes it as “a lot of things. It’s action, drama, comedy, it’s equal parts all of that,” elaborating how there’s no pigeonholing specific characters certain ways. “So, it’s not just up to Quasi to be funny, everybody’s funny in it, and everybody’s serious and the stakes are there for everybody. So it really is a whole piece.”
Rohl is playing Rachel Garrett, eventual captain of the Enterprise-C. Hardwick then called the film unique in its blending of genres. “There’s still that marriage, the hybrid of the sort of formality that we grew up watching, and yet it still has this dirty, sort of edgy take on it—where a sense of humor is allowed,” he said. “That was just amazing for us.” They also spoke highly of their absent co-star calling her someone who “galvanizes” the team and a “brilliant performer.”
“It was incredible to see because, through all the different iterations of it, Michelle was completely committed to doing it. Even after she won the Oscar,” Kurtzman said, having been part of everything Trek television since Discovery began and referring to her victory for Everything Everywhere All at Once. “She sort of doubled down on it, and we ended up being able to move forward in the window of time that we had.”
Star Trek: Section 31 also stars Sven Ruygrok as a Vulcan, Robert Kazinsky as some sort of technologically-enhanced humanoid (not gonna make any guesses), Humberly Gonzalez as a Deltan, and James Hiroyuki Liao. It is written by Craig Sweeny the movie is also executive produced by Yeoh, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry, and Trevor Roth, and is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. It’s set to premiere next year as the franchise’s first-ever streaming film and managing to be the one to break an 8+ year absence from film in general, so there’s sure to be more to be revealed as the months go. The full Star Trek Universe panel is available on Paramount+’s YouTube channel, starting at about the 1h10m mark, while the teaser can be watched below. The Paramount+ upload has about 58,000 more views than the upload on the franchise channel.
