The holiday season on a regular basis shines with a glut of glitz and glamor and so it is with the controversial new trailer for “Star Trek: Half 31,” Paramount+’s first direct-to-streaming “Star Trek” film landing on Jan. 24, 2025 that’s inflicting a minor riot of grumbling gravitational waves flowing all through the net.
It’s a bit jarring, unapologetically brash, significantly scary, and positively daring adequate to fireplace up debates on whether or not or not or not that’s really “Star Trek.” Irrespective of which aspect of the galaxy you fall on, no soul can really say that this movie and its PG-13-level violence seems boring.
“Half 31” amenities spherical Starfleet’s secretive black-ops division and the unstable character of Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) who was provided as a result of the Emperor of the Terran Empire in “Star Trek: Discovery’s” mirror universe. Proper right here she’s trapped once more inside the prime universe’s twenty third century the place the cruel chief is recruited into Half 31’s covert group the place she wreaks havoc on threats to the United Federation of Planets whereas atoning for the quite a few sins of her earlier. (In case you need a refresher in your Georgiou lore, our Star Trek streaming info can help you catch up.)
This wild new preview and character poster have been delivered over the weekend by way of the Paramount+ presentation on the CCXP convention in São Paolo, Brazil. We’re given a considerably higher idea of the film’s chaotic tone and class proper right here as a result of the vile Emperor Georgiou is yanked from her decadent home station to hook up with Starfleet’s spy workers tasked with confronting “a menace in distinction to one thing Starfleet has ever seen.”
Written by screenwriter Craig Sweeny and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, the damaging “Star Trek: Half 31” is illuminated by an all-star stable that moreover comprises Omari Hardwick (“Vitality”), Kacey Rohl (“Hannibal”), Emmy-winner Sam Richardson (“Ted Lasso”), Sven Ruygrok (“One Piece”), Robert Kazinsky (“Pacific Rim”), Humberly Gonzalez (“Ginny & Georgia”), James Hiroyuki Liao (“Barry”) and Miku Martineau (“Kate”) as a youthful Philippa Georgiou.
“The thought is form of antagonistic to among the many values of ‘Star Trek,'” Sweeny knowledgeable Choice in an interview earlier this yr. “Famously, there’s a spot for everybody in Roddenberry’s utopia, so I was like, ‘Properly, who may be the people who don’t pretty slot in?’ I didn’t must make the John le Carré mannequin, the place you might be inside the headquarters and it’s backbiting and shades of gray. I wanted to do the people who’ve been on the perimeters, out inside the topic. These shouldn’t people who primarily work collectively the easiest way you may see on a ‘Star Trek’ bridge.”
Osunsanmi (“Star Trek: Discovery,” “Transient Treks”) acts as govt producer alongside scribe Craig Sweeny, CBS Studios, Roddenberry Leisure, and Alex Kurtzman’s manufacturing shingle, Secret Hideout.
“Star Trek: Half 31” arrives fully on Paramount+ is Jan. 24, 2025.
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