There was an article were the author argue that the new Section 31 movie could only bomb since they scrapped what was Section 31. They’re not hero’s, they’re villains
There’s a world in which someone takes the Section 31 plotline and spins it out into a compelling Star Trek storyline. But it’s where Section 31 is basically Specter to the Starfleet Rebel Captain’s James Bond. They could have even done it with NuTrek, if they’d left Into Darkness on a cliffhanger (Khan Noonien Singh remains commander of the Enterprise, while Kirk and Spock have to do spook shit to stop him before he takes down Star Fleet from the inside).
If you’re feeling squirrelly, you can do a Hitman style story arc, where you introduce a fresh new character/team doing Le Epic Spycraft Shit in the first Act, realizing the moral hazard of the agency in the second Act, and going through a redemption arc in the third Act. Presumably with some handful of Star Fleet cameos operating as the protagonist’s Jiminy Cricket.
Instead, we get some kind of Space Charlie’s Angels, where the Gene Roddenbery story beats are all tossed in the trash and it’s just generic cowboy sci-fi with Starfleet badges.
There was an article were the author argue that the new Section 31 movie could only bomb since they scrapped what was Section 31. They’re not hero’s, they’re villains
There’s a world in which someone takes the Section 31 plotline and spins it out into a compelling Star Trek storyline. But it’s where Section 31 is basically Specter to the Starfleet Rebel Captain’s James Bond. They could have even done it with NuTrek, if they’d left Into Darkness on a cliffhanger (Khan Noonien Singh remains commander of the Enterprise, while Kirk and Spock have to do spook shit to stop him before he takes down Star Fleet from the inside).
If you’re feeling squirrelly, you can do a Hitman style story arc, where you introduce a fresh new character/team doing Le Epic Spycraft Shit in the first Act, realizing the moral hazard of the agency in the second Act, and going through a redemption arc in the third Act. Presumably with some handful of Star Fleet cameos operating as the protagonist’s Jiminy Cricket.
Instead, we get some kind of Space Charlie’s Angels, where the Gene Roddenbery story beats are all tossed in the trash and it’s just generic cowboy sci-fi with Starfleet badges.
Similar could be said of Assassin’s Creed. Cast, check. Budget, check. Writing…