STAR TREK: SECTION 31 Boldy Goes Nowhere With Worst Rotten Tomatoes Score Of The Franchise

The review embargo for Paramount+'s Star Trek: Section 31 has now lifted, and the first ever non-theatrical Trek movie was not a big hit with critics...

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By MarkCassidy - Jan 23, 2025 01:01 PM EST

Filed Under: Star Trek

Source: Via SFF Gazette

The first ever non-theatrical Star Trek movie, Section 31, beams onto Paramount+ tomorrow, and the review embargo has now lifted.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi and written by Craig Sweeny, Star Trek: Section 31 sees the return of Michelle Yeoh as Discovery villain Emperor Philippa Georgiou, who joins a secret division of Starfleet tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets.

The supporting cast includes Omari Hardwick, Sam Richardson, Robert Kazinsky, Kacey Rohl, Sven Ruygrok, James Hiroyuki Liao, Humberly Gonzalez, Joe Pingue and Miku Martineau.

Though there are a handful of positive verdicts, it's fair to say that the majority of critics decided not to set phasers to stun, as Section 31 has landed the worst Rotten Tomatoes score (22%) in Star Trek history, just behind the infamous Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (23%).

Star Trek: Section 31 is nothing but a lousy, uninteresting caper picture with middling special effects, bad acting, cringeworthy dialogue, and characters you don’t care about.

Our review: https://t.co/pfVfqh4NyA pic.twitter.com/VzhQnOYuv9
— IGN (@IGN) January 23, 2025

Star Trek Section 31 Review: Michelle Yeoh leads a mediocre mission impossible in outer space https://t.co/9Etav8J8AU pic.twitter.com/cJfJuiaCdT
— JoBlo.com (@joblocom) January 23, 2025

Star Trek: Section 31 sees the beloved sci-fi franchise lean hard into outrageous, b-movie action ... and it somehow works better than you'd think. https://t.co/JtVSPBDgZ7
— /Film (@slashfilm) January 23, 2025

NEW: #Section31 brings back Michelle Yeoh — but forgets all the #StarTrek — in the dismal new Paramount+ film

Our SPOILER-FREE review: https://t.co/Sa7CnvFwwb
— TrekCore.com 🖖 (@TrekCore) January 23, 2025

I regret to inform you that #Section31 is a huge disappointment 😞 Michelle Yeoh does what she can to elevate this painfully dull and predictable sci-fi heist, but even nemesis had a better script 💀 https://t.co/En0HjHF68n
— sam 👻✨ (@samcaseys) January 23, 2025

‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Review: Michelle Yeoh Proves Skeptics Wrong in Charming Paramount+ Spinoff Filmhttps://t.co/TB8tcIxpff
— TheWrap (@TheWrap) January 23, 2025

This new Star Trek spin-off doesn't know what it wants to be, and its star Michelle Yeoh deserves better.

Here's our verdict of #StarTrekSection31 ⬇️
https://t.co/7MJtZpu1Sb
— Total Film (@totalfilm) January 23, 2025

Star Trek: Section 31 is firing on all cylinders https://t.co/8wTRiGpr1o
— The Verge (@verge) January 23, 2025

Section 31 Is a Mediocre Action Movie, and an Even Worse Star Trek One https://t.co/IDteNy8jho
— io9 (@io9) January 23, 2025

'Star Trek: Section 31' Review: Not Even Michelle Yeoh Can Save Paramount+'s Subpar Spinoff Movie https://t.co/v81y2j1hLD
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 23, 2025

Star Trek: Section 31 will premiere on Paramount+ on Friday, January 24. Will you be tuning in?

STAR TREK: SECTION 31 Trailer And Poster Sees Michelle Yeoh Emperor Philippa Georgiou Assemble A Team Of Spies

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22 Comments

EarlChai - 1/23/2025, 1:46 PM

Literally no one wanted this.

UncleHarm1 - 1/23/2025, 3:48 PM

@EarlChai - I wanted this. I wanted it to be bad. RedLetterMedia's Star Trek videos are far better than Star Trek

AnEye - 1/23/2025, 1:46 PM

This always looked like shit. Here was the opportunity to do something interesting with Section 31 and it's nothing but a Star Trek version of Suicide Squad.

Please tell Alex Kurtzman to boldly go fuk himself.

Thanks.

ElJefe - 1/23/2025, 1:52 PM

“Boldly Goes Nowhere” lol

grif - 1/23/2025, 1:52 PM

keep making this garbage and then think nobody will remember you brought it into existence

JuanRGuijarro - 1/23/2025, 1:54 PM

I like Michelle Yeo, bout she is in everything nowadays... There are not other older female action actress?

MisterDoctor217 - 1/23/2025, 1:55 PM

@JuanRGuijarro -

Well she just won an Oscar so it makes sense she would get more work now

BillyBatson1000 - 1/23/2025, 1:54 PM

"It's life Jim, but not as we know it."

WakandaTech - 1/23/2025, 1:57 PM

Notice how something that could of been super cool turns out like pure crap

Star Trek CIA has a cool sound to it

THEKENDOMAN - 1/23/2025, 2:01 PM

Oh no, poor Michelle.

Why you got to go and do that??

Saw the trailer, didn't look that bad.

Then again, I'm not a trekky.

Never got into Space shows, I liked Star Wars trilogy, 1st and 2nd. If that counts.

For [frick]s Sake

Forthas - 1/23/2025, 2:03 PM

Geez! This franchise needs a break! While popular in its own right, I have often wondered why Star Trek has never found the same level of fandom popularity as Star Wars. I have a theory that it is because it is episodic as opposed to an ongoing drama. I am not sure, but I think film or TV franchises that focus on immediate conflicts within a broader ongoing one (Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings) tend to do better than franchises where stories are started and resolved without any overarching conflicts that ties each installation of the different stories together (Star Trek, Battle Star Galactica). I have no data to back that up. But I will one day crunch those numbers to seeif there is something there.

Forthas - 1/23/2025, 2:04 PM

Star-studded 'Children of Blood and Bone' cast revealed
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2025/01/23/children-of-blood-and-bone-cast-amandla-stenberg/77900352007/

Lisa89 - 1/23/2025, 2:50 PM

@Forthas - Congrats to Damson Idris Elba. ;)

FinnishDude - 1/23/2025, 2:09 PM

Writers of DS9: "Oh no, Gul Dukat, a character who we meant to be basically a stand-in for Hitler, is becoming liked by the audience. We need to fix this"

Writers of Discovery: "Oh no, Mirror!Georgio, a character we want to be a cool anti-hero, but is basically a smug cannibalistic Space-Hitler, isn't liked by the audience. We need to double-down on her being cool and the audience just should fix their attitude"

ModHaterSLADE - 1/23/2025, 2:16 PM

Too bad it couldn't have been a show. The movie just looks like a Star Trek take on Guardians of the Galaxy.

Huskers - 1/23/2025, 2:39 PM

What is the fracking delay on Strange New Worlds?!?! How were the able to crank out multiple episodes of STNG back in the 90’s every season but it takes years to make 8–10 episodes of Strange New Worlds?!?! Isn’t technology more advanced now for special effects?!?!

dagenspear - 1/23/2025, 5:03 PM

@Huskers - I think similarly. How do things cost more, with more technology to make, but somehow less takes longer to develop and release.

Godzilla2000Zer - 1/23/2025, 3:53 PM

Wonder how Robert Meyer Burnett gonna feel about this.

JohnShaft - 1/23/2025, 4:24 PM

IMO this is a Will Smith slap in the face to fans like myself who are HUGE DS9 fans from where Section 31 was "born" into Star Trek lore. They've taken 31 from being the CIA of the Federation and turned it into a fu*kin joke. Trek is DOA. Time to pull the sheet over the whole franchise and be done with it. FU Kurtzman

JacobsLadder - 1/23/2025, 4:36 PM

To boldly go where no man has gone before. So, congrats??

MarvelZombie616 - 1/23/2025, 4:57 PM

Star Trek is dead.

WarMonkey - 1/23/2025, 5:12 PM

Been coming in for many years, and this may be my favorite headline title yet LOL

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STAR TREK: SECTION 31 Boldy Goes Nowhere With Worst Rotten Tomatoes Score Of The Franchise

The review embargo for Paramount+'s Star Trek: Section 31 has now lifted, and the first ever non-theatrical Trek movie was not a big hit with critics...

STAR TREK: SECTION 31 Trailer And Poster Sees Michelle Yeoh Emperor Philippa Georgiou Assemble A Team Of Spies

Quentin Tarantino Finally Explains Why His R-Rated STAR TREK Movie Is "Never Going To Happen"

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