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đŸ’« Section 31 & More Star Trek Coming in 2025

Section 31 is the first Star Trek movie in almost a decade, and that's just the start of the TV and theater options for the franchise in the coming year.

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Michael Ahr
January 24, 2025

Friday Edition January 24, 2025

Joe George is a pop culture writer and author of The Superpowers and the Glory: A Viewer’s Guide to the Theology of Superhero Movies. He can be found at @joewriteswords on all socials.

Star Trek fans are used to waiting, but it’s been nine years since the last film in the franchise, 2016’s Star Trek Beyond. This week we finally got the streaming movie Star Trek: Section 31, starring Michelle Yeoh as her Discovery character Philippa Georgiou.

Directed by Discovery veteran Olatunde Osunsanmi and written by Craig Sweeny, Section 31 follows not a stalwart Captain and his crew on a mission of exploration, but rather former Mirror Universe Empress Georgiou as she joins Starfleet’s black ops division to find a weapon of massive destructive potential. The whiz-bang story teams Yeoh with well-liked character actors Omari Hardwick, Sam Richardson, and Kacey Rohl, the latter playing Rachel Garrett, the Captain of the Enterprise-C in the classic Next Generation episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise.”

Section 31 isn’t the only Trek we have to look forward to in the next few months and years. The new series Starfleet Academy is currently in production and is expected to release in late 2025 or early 2026. Starfleet Academy takes place in the 32nd Century, where Discovery favorite Sylvia Tilly sets up a new school for training the officers of the future. In addition to Mary Wiseman reprising her role as Tilly, Starfleet Academy will also bring back Tig Notaro as engineer Jett Reno and Robert Picardo as the Doctor from Voyager. Joining them is Holly Hunter as the school’s chancellor and Paul Giamatti as the series’ villain.

Fans happiest in the 23rd century don’t need to worry, as 2025 will bring us back to the Enterprise with the third season of Strange New Worlds. Our first look at the third season promises more of the shenanigans that were a highlight of the previous season, as several crew members get transformed into Vulcans and start judging Spock for his human heritage. However, we’re sure to get some more dramatic and philosophically compelling episodes in the new season as well, just like in The Original Series and The Next Generation.

Finally, production continues on a new theatrical Star Trek film. A new Trek movie has been in the works for some time, and while the studio has considered everything from a fourth Kelvin Universe movie to a stand-alone gangster picture from Quentin Tarantino, production now shifts to a Starfleet origin movie directed by Toby Haynes and written by Seth Grahame-Smith.

We don’t yet have a release date for this new Star Trek movie, but at least we’ll have plenty of Trek goodness to fill the time. And besides, we Trekkies are good at waiting.

— Joe George, Staff Writer

MOVIES
Star Trek: Section 31 Review: Badly Goes Where Everyone Has Gone Before

We knew this was a mistake. But here we have Emperor Georgiou, straight from the Mirror Universe of Star Trek: Discovery, carrying her own movie. But while Michelle Yeoh has proven her prowess in lead roles on the big screen before, Section 31 will sadly not be listed among her successes.

In our review, we answer whether this movie undermines the ethos of Star Trek, why it sometimes feels more like a video game with Star Trek skins, and how it doesn’t even qualify as bad science fiction since it appears to have no interest in fitting the genre or the franchise itself. Buckle up, fans!

MOVIES
Oscars 2025 Predictions: Who Will Win and Why

With the admitted caveat that it’s absurdly early to speculate on Oscar wins, we decided to give you our picks as of nomination morning and attempt to make some early predictions about who will win in the major categories. We’ll give our reasons and leave to you whether they’re worth heeding ahead of placing your own bets and predictions in the office pool. (Here’s where to watch the nominees.)

Readers will hopefully enjoy our methodology of including our best guess as to who will win in bold print, while also indicating who we think should win in italics. And there have already been snubs! Occasionally, both bold and italics will coincide, but see if you agree with us when we disagree with the likely winner.

GAMES
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Preview: The Series Finally Goes to Japan, But Is It Worth the Wait?

Assassin’s Creed was already very ninja-esque, so it’s actually amazing that it took this long for the game to explore a Japanese setting. Fortunately, Assassin’s Creed Shadows may just be worth the years-long wait. In many respects, it’s the most ambitious game in the franchise to date.

We were forunate enough to be invited to developer Ubisoft Quebec’s studio in Quebec City to play six hours of a preview build before the game’s March 20 release. We were able to explore the game’s open world set during Japan’s Warring States period, complete one of the game’s main missions, and play around with the game’s Hideout customization mode, among other things. Follow along as we show you whether you should add this game to your collection!

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