Star Trek: Section 31
Paramount+ | Release Date (Streaming): January 24, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
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SlashfilmJacob HallJan 22, 2025
As intended, "Section 31" is the Michelle Yeoh show, and she wears Georgiou like a spiky, vampy, blood-soaked glove at this point. Either you enjoy watching Yeoh strut and kick and smirk through action scenes, or you have no taste. Read full review
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Screen RantRachel HulshultJan 22, 2025
Overall, Star Trek: Section 31 can best be described as a fun time. And if it sometimes feels a bit hollow, well, not every Star Trek story has to have profound commentary on what it means to be human. Read full review
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PolygonSusana PoloJan 23, 2025
By trying to make Star Trek: Section 31 everything regular Star Trek isn’t, Osunsanmi and Sweeney fulfill the show’s promise to boldly go where no one has gone before. But its one-and-done story concludes without the plot itself ending up anywhere particularly unexpected. Read full review
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VarietyDennis HarveyJan 28, 2025
This superficially diverting tangent is too convoluted and tonally wobbly to leave a lasting impression. Read full review
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Original-CinJohn KirkJan 23, 2025
Even Discovery fans will have to admit this spin-off is just simply a weakly told story. The characters are contrived and even a talent like Michelle Yeoh can’t save it. Read full review
42
The PlaylistBrian FarvourJan 23, 2025
No one can fault the cast for giving it what might be seen as a decent shot, but if Star Trek: Section 31 leaves you with one thing, it’s that the final frontier, which is future spinoffs, might be best left alone. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Angelica Jade BastienFeb 7, 2025
The film adopts a visual slickness that renders it anonymous. You don’t have to squint hard to recognize how the writers and the director are cribbing from other science-fiction franchises in an attempt to refresh Star Trek — though all that accomplishes is giving the franchise a center of gravity that isn’t its own. Read full review
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EmpireJames DyerJan 23, 2025
Less a Star Trek movie than a middling pilot episode setting up a series that will never come, Section 31 makes for a disheartening send-off for a once great character. Read full review
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The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJan 23, 2025
"Section 31,” bravely directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, is a dog’s dinner of head-snapping reversals and explanatory dialogue — a movie with little on its mind but mayhem. Read full review
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ColliderSamantha ColeyJan 22, 2025
While it's always a pleasure to see Yeoh kick butt and take names among the stars, Section 31 wastes her talents as well as its own premise on a middling heist movie devoid of anything that might actually identify it as a Star Trek movie. Read full review
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Total FilmDavid OpieJan 22, 2025
Star Trek: Section 31 doesn't know what it wants to be. Is it a serious exploration of the criminal underbelly, a camp throwback to the noughties, or a tonally off combination of the two? Whatever it is, it doesn't work half as well as it should. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJan 22, 2025
[Yeoh] has such a commanding and darkly amusing screen presence that the pedestrian film can almost, but not quite, be forgiven for letting her down so completely. Read full review
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LooperAudrey FoxJan 23, 2025
Instead of a slightly silly, character-driven series that spins off Michelle Yeoh's Emperor of the Terran Empire character, we get a hastily thrown together buddy comedy that lacks any semblance of humor or, for that matter, buddies. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comClint WorthingtonJan 23, 2025
Star Trek fans have been waiting nearly a decade to see a proper film in the franchise since 2016’s sorely underappreciated Kelvinverse entry “Star Trek Beyond.” “Section 31,” a cynical whimper of a Trek adventure, isn’t likely to scratch that itch. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleZaki HasanJan 22, 2025
At its core, Star Trek: Section 31 suffers from a kind of existential emptiness. It appropriates some of the surface-level iconography of “Trek” but fails to uphold its spirit. It nods to continuity, but the dense lore feels like a gatekeeping exercise and the breezy tone undermines the gravitas of its own premise. Read full review
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IGNJordan HoffmanJan 22, 2025
The Michelle Yeoh fronted spin-off movie Section 31 is 100 minutes of generic schlock containing only trace elements of Star Trek. Read full review
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