There’s just one week left to go until Star Trek: Section 31 arrives on the 2025 movies schedule and reunites fans who have a Paramount+ subscription with Michelle Yeoh’s Philippa Georgiou, the former leader of the Terran Empire in the Mirror Universe. However, there was a time when Section 31 was intended to be on the slate of upcoming Star Trek TV shows. In fact, director Olatunde Osunsanmi shared that the Section 31 TV series actually made it pretty far along in the development process before the creative pivot.
Had things gone as originally planned, Osunsanmi deserved to have directed the pilot for Section 31, having already contributed to the franchise by directing episodes of Star Trek: Discovery, which paved the way for this spin-off. In an interview with EW, Osunsanmi had this to say about how things went when the TV series Section 31 took place:
We actually prepped and had a concept meeting on the pilot of Section 31 while we were finishing and shooting the finale of Disco season 2. So we essentially had two parallel shows happening at the same time.
For those who need a refresher or haven’t watched Star Trek: Discovery, the Season 2 finale saw the crew of the title ship, including Philippa Georgiou, traveling over 900 years into the future. However, Georgiou didn’t stay long, as the combination of her traveling so far forward in time and hailing from another universe meant that her molecules were too far from their origin. This was slowly killing her, but the Guardian of Forever opened a portal to send her back to an earlier time period in the Prime Universe. That’s where we’ll find her when Section 31 begins, albeit several decades ahead of when Discovery’s first two seasons took place, as evidenced by the presence of Rachel Garrett, the future captain of the Enterprise-C.
I’d be lying if I said didn’t want to see how Section 31 turned out as a TV series, especially if it included other Discovery characters to join Philippa Georgiou, like Shazad Latif’s Ash Tyler. Alas, that version of the project eventually went by the wayside when writer Craig Sweeney drafted another pilot script treatment. Then the COVID-19 pandemic further complicated plans, and by early 2023, it was decided to make Section 31 as a movie instead, although its production was delayed by the two Hollywood strikes.
Olatunde Osunsanmi credited Alex Kurtzman, “relentless” manager of the Star Trek franchise, Aaron Baiers (president of television at Kurtzman’s production company, Secret Hideout), and Michelle Yeoh for the creation of Section 31, saying:
I can’t, we’re about to launch it globally after all this.
We’ll see how the final product develops when Star Trek: Section 31 launches on January 24, with Michelle Yeoh joined on screen by Omari Hardwick, Kacey Rohl, Sam Richardson, Sven Ruygrok, Robert Kazinsky, Humbly González and James Hiroyuki Liao. . . After its release, the Trek franchise will continue with the premiere of Strange New Worlds season 3 in the 2025 TV show.
A foodie of Marvel, DC, Star Wars, John Wick, MonsterVerse, and Doctor Who, Adam is a Senior Content Producer at CinemaBlend. He began applying for the site in late 2014, exclusively writing articles about comics, movies and television, and in addition to delving into other genres, he also made the leap into editing. In addition to his writing and editing duties, in addition to occasionally interviewing artistic talents, he also supervises the awarding of feature films due to cinema. He graduated in journalism from the University of Oregon and has been cited several times on Wikipedia. He is aware that he looks like Harry Potter and Clark Kent.
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