Michelle Yeoh’s ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Movie Adds New Cast

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Michelle Yeoh as Georgiou in ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Jan Thijs/Paramount+

Preview:

The Michelle Yeoh-starring ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ movie has begun shooting.
Omari Hardwick and Sam Richardson are joining the cast.
The movie will stream on Paramount+.

For the past few years, the ‘Star Trek’ TV series have been flying the flag for the venerable sci-fi franchise as the big screen adventures have been stymied in cinematic development drydock (yet another example was announced recently).

But, while it won’t be warping into movie theaters, the small screen ‘Trek’ universe has spawned its own movie, based on the further adventures of Emperor Philippa Georgiou, as played to winning effect by Michelle Yeoh in the first season of ‘Star Trek: Discovery’.

And, as the movie kicks off shooting, the likes of Omari Hardwick, Kacey Rohl, Sam Richardson, Sven Ruygrok, Robert Kazinsky, Humberly Gonzalez and James Hiroyuki Liao are joining the cast.

What’s the story for ‘Star Trek: Section 31’?

Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou on Paramount+’s ‘Star Trek: Discovery.’

Yeoh’s Captain Phillipa Georgiou was a powerful presence… at least (spoiler alert if you’ve somehow not caught up on the first episode of ‘Discovery’, which screened in 2017) until she died at the hands (and blade) of a Klingon warrior.

Yet that was not the end for Yeoh’s story –– a trip to the Mirror Universe (established all the way back in the 1960s original ‘Star Trek’) revealed that there was another Georgiou –– and she was Emperor of the cruel Terran Empire. She eventually ended up helping our heroes, and in a deleted scene, was approached by a member of the stealthy organization Section 31.

Originally developed as a series, the concept was instead announced as a movie last April. The basic synopsis for the movie reads: “Georgiou joins a secret division of Starfleet. Tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets, she also must face the sins of her past.”

What is Section 31?

Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou of the CBS All Access series 'Star Trek: Discovery.'

First introduced in ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’, Section 31 was an organization which claimed to protect the security interests of United Earth and, later, the United Federation of Planets. During the mid-23rd century, they were considered a critical division of Starfleet Intelligence, while by the 24th century, they were believed to be a rogue organization not considered part of the Federation but were in fact still part of Starfleet Intelligence.

Who is making the movie?

Omari Hardwick as Cruise in 'The Mother.'

Craig Sweeny is writing the script, with ‘Discovery’ veteran Olatunde Osunsanmi directing.

Here’s what executive producer Alex Kurtzman had to say about the movie kicking off:

“And we’re off to the races! Thrilled to report principal photography has started on ‘Star Trek: Section 31’. We welcome our incredible cast of new characters as they join our beloved Michelle Yeoh on her next wild adventure across the ‘Trek’ universe.”