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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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
50
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
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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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