Part 31 Needs You to Know It is Chock Filled with ...

After a number of false starts, Paramount’s lastly making good on its years-old promise to present Michelle Yeoh a Star Trek car of her personal. Section 31 places the once-evil model of Phillippa Georgiou middle stage, and its latest trailer places a much bigger emphasis on the motion and ragtag crew that’ll be aiding her in her exploits.

Directed by Star Trek: Discovery producer/director Olatunde Osunsanmi, the movie picks up with Georgiou residing out her days within the prime universe because the proprietor of a flowery membership on an area station outdoors of Federation area. All appears effectively till Part 31 agent Alok (Omari Hardwick) reveals up seeking to recruit her into its titular black ops division. The mission? Go off the books and deal with a brand new menace the Federation can’t. Starfleet’s Rachel Garrett (Kacey Rohl) could also be there to cease the group from breaking too many guidelines, however Georgiou and her crew know they’ll positively be getting their fingers soiled.

Stated crew invovles Changeoid spy Quasi (Sam Richardson), the exosuit-wearing Zeph (Robert Kazinsky), honeypot knowledgeable Melle (Humberly Gonzalez), and the tempermental Fuzz (Sven Ruygrok). Whereas the primary trailer was glitzy and glamorous, this new one reveals the group placing their expertise to make use of and getting within the grime—aka, chaos like membership shootouts and dogfights,  whereas proclaiming they should work collectively to remain alive. However we’re nonetheless not seeing them rise up to the shady,  morally compromising stuff beforehand seen or hinted at in earlier Star Trek tales. You’ve acquired to determine that darkness is being hidden behind the spectacle and explosions we’re used to from Star Trek by now, particularly since Georgiou’s acquired to contend along with her previous as an Emperor again in her dwelling universe.

We’ll discover out for certain when Star Trek: Part 31 hits Paramount+ on January 24, 2025.

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