Section 31. Star Trek's first made-for-streaming movie, Star Trek: Section 31, has been met with mostly negative reviews from fans and critics. After departing Star Trek: Discovery in season 3, Michelle Yeoh returns as Emperor Philippa Georgiou in Section 31,

Regardless of how you ultimately feel about the tone Section 31 goes for—which definitely leans hard into trying to be cool and cynically jokey a lot of the time—and perhaps even regardless of how threadbare most of the primary cast is treated by Section 31 ‘s script,

Section 31? For our answer, we’ll have to dig into decades of behind-the-scenes intrigue and centuries of Star Trek continuity.