Back at San Diego Comic-Con, Paramount revealed our first take a look at the long-awaited Michelle Yeoh Star Trek: Discovery spinoff, Part 31. From the lengthy highway of a TV show within the earliest days of Trek‘s streaming growth to now a streaming-exclusive movie headlined by an Oscar-winning actress, the footage was sure to make a splash both manner.
Paramount didn’t function a extra intensive trailer for Part 31 at New York Comedian Con throughout its Star Trek Universe panel that paints a clearer image of simply how Yeoh’s Discovery character—the previous Emperor of the Terran Empire within the Mirror Universe turned form of good, Phillipa Georgiou—finds herself wrapped up in a really attention-grabbing time for a really attention-grabbing pocket of Starfleet within the secret police division, Section 31. As a substitute, it supplied a launch date of January 24, 2025, and a snazzy new poster, which you’ll be able to see beneath.
The primary trailer contains a stunning little bit of glitz and glamour for a film that’s about a company with a controversial and grim historical past in Star Trek lore, the black ops division working in shadow to compromise its personal morals for the sake of safeguarding the lofty ones held by the Federation at giant. Within the movie, Georgiou acts as a little bit of a chaos agent to the in any other case extra self-serious espionage at play, notably since she’s additionally acquired a ragtag group behind her.
Of these recent faces, the massive draw shall be a brand new face taking part in a well-recognized one: Kacey Rohl as a young Rachel Garrett, the captain of the Enterprise-C launched within the TNG episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise.” That not offers legacy Trek followers a little bit of canonical intrigue, it additionally firmly locations Part 31 at a cut-off date that’s not solely wild to get Georgiou in (at the same time as she’s pinged about from the time of basic Star Trek all the best way to Discovery‘s far future within the thirty first century), however one the franchise has not often explored intimately, a nascent period between the occasions of the unique sequence and The Subsequent Technology.
We’ll see simply what threats to the Federation necessitate bringing Part 31 in—and bringing a wild card like Georgiou in, too—when Star Trek: Part 31 hits Paramount+ on Friday, January 31, 2025.
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