Star Trek: Section 31
Summary
The legacyStar Trekcharacter thatStar Trek : Section 31needs most isStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s Dr. Julian Bashir ( Alexander Siddig ) . The upcoming made - for - streamingSection 31movie touch off surmisal that Section 31 agentive role from across time could appear once again inStar Trek , but thecast ofStar Trek : Section 31features Academy Award - winner Michelle Yeoh as Emperor Philippa Georgiou fromStar Trek : Discovery , and several other newcomers toStar Trekin unnamed office . No familiarStar Trekcharacters besides Georgiou are in batch , not evenDiscovery ’s Lt . Ash Tyler ( Shazad Latif ) , Georgiou ’s twenty-third - 100 contemporary within Section 31 .
Section 31 , Starfleet ’s covert intelligence partition , was precede inStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 6 , sequence 18 , " Inquisition " , in which Deputy Director Luther Sloan ( William Sadler ) put Dr. Bashir through psychological exam to find out that Bashir is n’t a Dominion spy before enroll Bashir as an agent of Section 31 . Bashir reject , but Captain Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) request that Bashir accept Sloan ’s invitation to join Section 31 , so the governing body can be dismantled from within . Bashir stay the central character in Section 31 ’s subsequentDS9appearances , which aim Julian ’s ethical motive at betting odds with deceivingly reveal information for the benefit of the Federation .
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Why Section 31 Movie Needs Star Trek: DS9’s Dr. Bashir
Julian Bashir still has an important Section 31 mission to complete.
Dr. Julian Bashir was sport in the earliest Section 31 episodes ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , making Bashir an important thespian in the Section 31 story . TheDS9documentaryWhat We Left Behindsuggested Bashir was still affiliate with Section 31 inDS9 ’s suppositional season 8 , and Bashir ’s involvement in aSection 31movie could canonize Julian ’s status as a Section 31 twofold agent , specially sinceSisko ’s directive to destruct subdivision 31 from within was never completed onDS9.Even though Sisko come up to become a Prophet of Bajor , Bashir ’s story could continue with reports to a commanding officer who shares Bashir ’s goal of insure Starfleet preserve its moral posture , even in its intelligence division .
Julian Bashir ’s mission to dismantle Section 31 as a part of Starfleet Intelligence would put Bashir at direct betting odds with Emperor Philippa Georgiou , whose Mirror Universe methodology meshes well with Section 31 ’s Machiavellian spycraft . The engagement between Bashir and Georgiou would be a battle of humor in which both combatants are equally armed , with Bashir ’s superscript intelligence as a genetically enhanced item-by-item playing against Georgiou ’s perfectly placed scheme as a tactical mastermind . Alexander Siddig and Michelle Yeoh would be a joy to catch in a plot of quat - and - mouse espionage where the stakes are Starfleet ’s moral soul – especially when both players think they ’re the bozo .
Section 31’s Potential Setting Means Dr. Bashir Can’t Appear
The 25th century would make a great Section 31 sequel.
It ’s likely thatSection 31will be set in the 23rd one C , long before Dr. Julian Bashir ’s time . InStar Trek : Discovery , the Guardian of Forever ( Paul Guilfoyle ) was very well-defined in specifying thatPhilippa Georgiou had to exist at a clock time closer to her own twenty-third - century origin in order for Georgiou to rest in the Prime Universe . While Georgiou ’s home Mirror Universe was still snug enough to the Prime Universe to allow for crossover voter between the two in the twenty-fourth century , as evidenced byDS9 ’s 5Mirror Universe installment , the 100 - year gap may still be too broad to exert Georgiou ’s molecular unity .
Star Trek : Section 31will nidus on Philippa Georgiou and new characters , but that does n’t intend Julian Bashir ca n’t fall toStar Trek . If Yeoh’sSection 31does well , Paramount+ plans to release a newStar Trekmovie every 2 years . Bashir ’s inextricable links with Section 31 could spell a likely twenty-fifth - hundred continuation , with way for Captain Worf ( Michael Dorn ) and Commander Raffi Musiker ( Michelle Hurd ) to be Bashir ’s moral accomplices to reconstruct Starfleet Intelligence ’s integrity . Even without Bashir , however , Star Trek : Section 31promises a corking vehicle for Michelle Yeoh and the debut of an exciting novel chapter forStar Trekon television .
Star Trek : Section 31will stream on Paramount+ .
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