Its total bullshit to place a dystopian organisation so close to the center of a utopian society. It basically calls the whole society into question.
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Let's cancel a TV show we just shot several episodes of and edit it into a movie!!
The pivot-to-movie happened well before anything was filmed.
But it does seem like the "pivot" was trying to stuff ten hours of story into a two-hour bag.
Understatement of the century
You could have done something else.
The cool thing about Section 31 was that it was ambiguous, did it really exist? Was it just one crazy guy? Then Discovery blew that up, and we could have just tried to forget it, but no, let's make a movie about it.
it was ambiguous, did it really exist? Was it just one crazy guy?
This was never credible, and was never how it was presented in DS9.
Even in "Inquisition", Sloan had two other guys standing next to him, and an entire starship at his disposal. Starfleet Command covered for him at the end - something that was noted by the DS9 senior staff.
In subsequent episodes, Admiral Ross acknowledged their existence, and Bashir worked out what he believed to be the bare minimum number of operatives required to create the morphogenic virus (73).
Later, we saw them working for the United Earth Starfleet in the ENT era.
The only suggestion that it's just "once crazy guy" comes from Koval, who then helps Sloan fake his death and is revealed to be a S31 asset in the very next scene.
So no, that's not really something Discovery changed. People have had to wilfully ignore the DS9 episodes to buy into that theory.
Yeah, way to focus on one part of the comment. Is it possible that Sloan just blackmailed or forced all those others into following his orders? Yes. Plausible? Eh...
Still, the point is the mistery, the ambiguity. Barely anyone knows they exist, Sisko, an experienced commander, didn't know about them. The bigger they make them, the more unbelievable that becomes.
In ENT it's very heavy handed that Malcom uses to work for section 31, and they really want him back. Big part of a story arc in the last season.
they also play a big role in Into Darkness (not that anyone cares about that one...)
the characters that we built and the rapport that we had with each other was amazing
I have to admit, I thought Alok was a pretty interesting character. Sam Richardson was also very charismatic as Quasi, though he didn't have much to do. And Young Garrett was okay, too.
I wouldn't mind seeing any of those characters pop up again, with a better story.
It’s a good distinction to make that the characters were much more interesting than the story we saw.
I looked at a list of characters and I rank 4/7 of them as interesting, but sadly half of those were killed off :(
Space Hitler: 👎
Space Common: 👎
Quasi: 👍
Zeph 🪦: 👍
Garrett: 👍
Fuzz 🪦: 👎
Melle 🪦: 👍
I obviously think Georgiou is a more interesting character than you do, but other than that, I agree with this list.
I know it wasnt the greatest thing that's ever been done under the star trek name, but I do think this could be the thing to get non Trekkies into trek. It was basically a fast and furious / mission impossible movie that happened to be in the star Trek universe. Sometimes something stupid but accessible can get people into a larger franchise. I am also really into Thunderbirds, the old puppet show made in the 60's it got repeated in the UK in the 90's and became a huge phenomenon way bigger than the first time it was shown. So inevitably a live action movie was made in the 00's and it was absolutely awful, however when I have encountered younger fans who are into Thunderbirds they always point to the live action as their first exposure to it which led onto the original show. The only way was up once you got into it.
I think that was definitely the idea. I'm somewhat skeptical that it worked, but it would be cool if it was a gateway movie for someone.
Give it time you just never know........