Ok so I lasted 22 minutes. What a load of absolute rubbish, stupid dialogue AND acting. Why oh why are movies going down this road. Star Trek-no Crap Trek !

They made it. A Star Trek that doesn't feel like fanfiction. No token Klingon, no famous retiree being dragged in front of the camera, no plot-elements that are just callbacks to other, better things, no forced relationships that make you think the Federation is secretly a monarchy, no things that exist solely to pander to "fans" who think everything should be TNG; this is - in a way - the anti-Picard, and it's great the way it is. (actually, it's still a revenge plot... we need to work on that) Don't get me wrong, the Mirror Universe was an interesting one-off thing for the classic series and should have stayed there. The characters are zany, the plot is a little stupid, it reminds me of that one RPG session nobody took seriously, but it's its own thing, and it does it well. More of that please.

It's been quite a while since the last “Star Trek” film, but the franchise has been quite active in recent years, at least in the TV sector, sometimes very successfully (Strange New Worlds), sometimes with rather mixed results (Picard, Discovery). One thing is certain for me: Michelle Yeoh as the evil emperor Philippa Georgiou was the absolute highlight of the earlier seasons of Discovery. That's why I wasn't at all averse to the idea of making a movie about her and the ominous Section 31. But the result is a disaster. The movie doesn't feel like Star Trek at all, both in terms of story and presentation. It tries to go for the humor angle throughout, which just didn't work for me at all because of the annoying characters. There are also some subpar effects and costumes that cannot keep up with the shows. And I don't even want to get worked up about the occasionally inappropriate music. Yeoh deserved a much better movie, but “Star Trek: Section 31” really is a total failure.

It would be hard to make it worse.

A slap in the face for every Star Trek fan. But even as a standalone sci-fi film it's really bad. A real waste of Michelle Yeoh's acting skills and the entire budget. Gene Roddenberry's version of the future was an advanced guild society in which political power, personal possessions or material values ​​were pushed into the background for the benefit of the common good or purpose. It was about exploring new worlds, cultures and civilizations as well as the contrast to ours and about conveying acceptance and respect for diversity or opposing interests based on culture or ideology. Today's interpretation of Star Trek is like a woke cooperative through and through, which uses all means to enforce its ideology to the detriment of all other cultures, species or organizations and does not even shy away from infiltration, manipulation and violence. Where TNG, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise once always presented the limits and difficulties of morality in balance with politics in the ideology of Starfleet, today's series and films are focused on action and enforcing a one-sided view of things or their own ideology. This spy film hardly fits into the world of Star Trek and seems like a cheap copy of Suicide Squad. Although the template from Discovery and Michelle Yeoh would have provided a more than solid basis for the world of the film, they decided on a complete redesign and broke all the rules that usually apply in Star Trek. There are no visual references or references to any relevant topic in the Star Trek universe. But even viewed as a standalone film, the story is boring, the characters stereotypical and weird. The settings, stunts and effects seem cheap, arbitrary and exaggerated. A disgrace for the title Star Trek.