Star Trek: Section 31 (Star Trek: Section 31) is a 2025 American fantasy adventure action film directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi from a screenplay by Craig Sweeney, Bo Yeon Kim, and Erica Lippold. The film is set to be released on January 24, 2025.
The film follows Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeo), who is recruited by Section 31 to deal with a threat related to her past. She joins a team of agents, including Alok Sahar (Omari Hardwick), a chameleonoid named Quasi (Sam Richardson), the pilot Zef (Robert Kazinsky), the technology specialist Fuzz (Sven Ruygrok), the Delta Mele (Humberly Gonzalez) and Starfleet Lieutenant Rachel Garrett (Casey RollTogether they must find and neutralize a weapon of mass destruction that Georgeau has created in the mirror universe.
It is the first television film and the fourteenth film overall in the Star Trek franchise, part of the expanded universe created by Alex Kurtzman. The film is a spin-off of the series "„Star Trek: Discovery“" and focuses on the character Philippa Georgiou, played by Michelle Yeoh, a former empress of the Terran Empire who is now an agent of Section 31 - a secret division of Starfleet responsible for protecting the United Federation of Planets.
Originally planned as a television series, the project was converted to a television film due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors. Filming is set to begin in January 2024 at Pinewood Toronto Studios in Canada and conclude in March 2024.
The film received mixed reviews, with some critics praising Michelle Yeoh's performance and the new direction of the franchise, while others criticized the plot and the departure from traditional Star Trek themes.
