STAR TREK: SECTION 31 Trailer (2025) Michelle Yeoh

STAR TREK: SECTION 31 Trailer (2025) Michelle Yeoh

STAR TREK: SECTION 31 Trailer (2025) Michelle Yeoh, Star Trek Movie
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The first-look trailer for Paramount+'s all-original movie "Star Trek: Section 31" beamed into Paramount's "Star Trek" panel in the crowded Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend and it's an electrifying flight into Starfleet's clandestine black ops organization.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi ("The Fourth Kind," "Falling Skies," "Star Trek: Discovery") from a screenplay by Craig Sweeney and eventually landing on the popular platform sometime in 2025, the "Section 31" cast includes Omari Hardwick, Kacey Rohl, Sam Richardson, Sven Ruygrok, Robert Kazinsky, Humberly Gonzalez, and James Hiroyuki Liao. The teaser trailer, released Saturday (July 27), is our best look yet at the new Trek feature, but if you need a refresher, check out our guide on everything to know about Star Trek: Section 31. Our Star Trek streaming guide can help you catch up on all the other Trek shows leading up to the new film.

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Paramount+ is the home of Star Trek, and that will include Section 31 when it releases. In the meantime you can watch almost every other Star Trek show and movie on the streaming service.

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Here's the official synopsis:

"'Star Trek: Section 31,' a Paramount+ Original Movie, stars Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh as Emperor Philippa Georgiou who joins a secret division of Starfleet. Tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets, she also must face the sins of her past."

a tough-looking band of secret agents clad in black

The super spy team assembles in "Star Trek: Section 31." (Image credit: Paramount Plus)
In keeping with the classified super spy theme, this edgy SDCC offering's pale-yellow title card reads, "This Preview Contains Misfit Content As Determined By Starfleet Common Media Division: Colorful Metaphors, Disintegration, Deltan Fraternizing, Reference To Unauthorized The Jumps."

Here in this two-minute taste matched musically with Beyoncé's "Formation," we get our initial peek at a series of flashbacks revealing the atrocities committed by a young Phillipa Georgiou (Miku Martineau) as she rose through the ranks of the Mirror Universe's Terran Empire to be feared and hailed as Emperor.

From the tone and style of this initial teaser, the "Discovery" spinoff endeavor known as "Section 31" has a rollicking, raw sensibility that takes fans into the shadowy world of "Star Trek" secret agents. Yeoh seems to be relishing her role as the crafty despot with a violent history now stuck in the Prime Universe and recruited into the fold of this covert intelligence team operating with very few rules.
The Star Trek: Section 31 teaser trailer at Comic-Con 2024 confirms a 2025 release date, and spotlights Philippa Georgiou-led Starfleet spy team.
Michelle Yeoh headlines as Philippa Georgiou in a Paramount+ Star Trek movie set in the "lost era" between Star Trek VI and The Next Generation.
The teaser reveals an intriguing cast of characters, including Omari Hardwick, Rob Kazinsky, Humberly González, and Kacey Rohl as Captain Rachel Garrett.
The teaser trailer for Star Trek: Section 31 is screened at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, confirming a 2025 release date and providing the first proper look at the Starfleet spy team put together by Michelle Yeoh's Philippa Georgiou. Star Trek's first streaming-exclusive movie puts Starfleet's controversial covert operatives front and center, as Philippa Georgiou rejoins Section 31 for the first time since Star Trek: Discovery season 2. Originally starting life as a Discovery spinoff series, the Section 31 movie will depict Georgiou atoning for her sins while protecting the galaxy.

Star Trek: Section 31 is set in the "lost era", the period between the end of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The teaser trailer for Star Trek: Section 31, screened as part of the Star Trek franchise's Comic-Con panel, for which Screen Rant was in attendance.

The trailer provides a first look at Section 31's cast of characters in action, while also introducing Miku Martineau as the younger Philippa Georgiou.

Michelle Yeoh as Star Trek: Section 31's Emperor Georgiou
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Star Trek: Section 31 Trailer Reveals Georgiou's Spy Team
Starfleet & Section 31 Are On A Joint Mission In The Star Trek Movie
Star Trek: Section 31's teaser trailer provides the first look at the characters played by Omari Hardwick, Rob Kazinsky, Humberly González, Kacey Rohl, Sven Ruygrok, and Sam Richardson. While their Section 31 character names aren't revealed in the teaser, it is known that Kacey Rohl will be playing a younger version of Captain Rachel Garrett (Tricia O'Neill) from Star Trek: The Next Generation. It appears that Garrett is a Starfleet liaison, telling Georgiou that she's there to make sure Section 31 doesn't "kill anyone".

Star Trek: Section 31 Cast Member

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Michelle Yeoh

Emperor Philippa Georgiou

Kacey Rohl

Rachel Garrett

Omari Hardwick

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Rob Kazinsky

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Sven Ruygrok

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Sam Richardson

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Humberly González

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Miku Martineau

Young Philippa Georgiou

James Hiroyuki Liao

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There are also interesting tidbits from the Section 31 trailer that suggest who the other cast members may be playing. Omari Hardwick is clearly playing Philippa Georgiou's Section 31 recruiter or handler in the Star Trek movie, given his damning summary of her crimes. Sven Ruygrok's character is likely a Vulcan, as the Federation and the Romulans are on non-speaking terms at this point in the Star Trek timeline. Rob Kazinsky's bulky exoskeleton cuts an imposing figure, while it looks like Humberly González is playing a Deltan from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Star Trek: Section 31 is set in the years before Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) was built, which implies Sam Richardson could be the beneficiary of Soong's pre-Data cybernetics.

Most interesting of all, is the first look at Sam Richardson in Star Trek: Section 31. One shot of Richardson's character, reveals that he has what looks like the yellow eyes of a Soong android. Star Trek: Section 31 is set in the years before Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) was built, which implies Sam Richardson could be the beneficiary of Soong's pre-Data cybernetics. Viewers will see whether Richardson's character is related to Data, and how Philippa Georgiou's disparate Starfleet spy team comes together when Star Trek: Section 31 premieres on Paramount+ in 2025.

Michelle Yeoh as Emperor Philippa Georgiou in Star Trek- Discovery
Star Trek: Section 31 follows Phillippa Georgiou's journey from Empress to Starfleet operative in a shadowy intelligence agency.
Michelle Yeoh stars in the Paramount+ original movie, facing her character's past sins and serving the Federation.
The teaser offers a glimpse into Georgiou's mission with Section 31, featuring a motley crew and plenty of mayhem.
The shadowy world of interplanetary espionage was brought into the light at today's San Diego Comic-Con Star Trek panel, as Michelle Yeoh interrupted the festivities with a special video message - and the first teaser for the upcoming Paramount+ streaming-original movie Star Trek: Section 31. It will premiere on Paramount+ in early 2025.

Set to Beyoncé's "Formation," the teaser opens with a flashback to a young Philippa Georgiou (played by Kate's Miku Martineau) in the Mirror Universe, as we see how her family was killed, resulting in her being crowned Empress of the Terran Empire. We then cut to her present - stranded in the prime Star Trek universe, and serving as an operative of the shadowy Federation intelligence agency Section 31. We get glimpses of her motley crew of fellow operatives (including Starfleet representative Rachel Garrett (Kacey Rohl), who deems Georgiou a "bad bitch"), and see them on a mission that quickly devolves into mayhem. Rohl was in attendance on the panel, as were fellow Section 31 stars Omari Hardwick and Sam Richardson, executive producer Alex Kurtzman, and director Olatunde Osunsanmi.

What Is 'Star Trek: Section 31' About?
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Introduced in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Section 31 is a secretive intelligence agency determined to protect the Federation and Starfleet by any means necessary, even if those means are unethical or illegal. The film will center around Georgiou (Yeoh), onetime ruler of the twisted Mirror Universe's despotic Terran Empire; she was taken in by the crew of the USS Discovery, and eventually became a Section 31 operative. Among her crew is Rohl's Rachel Garrett, who will later become the captain of the USS Enterprise-C and fall in the service of the Federation; her sole appearance to date was in the classic Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Yesterday's Enterprise". It will also star Sven Ruygrok, Rob Kazinsky, Humberly Gonzalez, James Hiroyuki Liao, Joe Pingue, and Augusto Bitter. The movie wrapped production in Toronto earlier this year.

Written by Craig Sweeny and directed by Osunsanmi, Star Trek: Section 31 is executive produced by Kurtzman, Sweeny, Aaron Baiers, Osunsanmi, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, and Yeoh. It is the first-ever streaming-original Star Trek movie.

Star Trek: Section 31 will premiere on Paramount+ in early 2025. Stay tuned to Collider for all of our San Diego Comic-Con news this weekend, and watch the new teaser for Section 31 above.

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Star Trek: Section 31
In Star Trek: Section 31, Emperor Philippa Georgiou, joins a secret division of Starfleet tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets and faces the sins of her past.
She’s a tyrant who “murdered her own people by the millions.” And when someone calls her a “bad bitch,” she just smiles and enjoys the attention.

That’s Emperor Philippa Georgiou, played by Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh, in the trailer for Star Trek: Section 31 coming in early 2025. The original movie features Yeoh reprising her role as Philippa Georgiou, a character she first played in Star Trek: Discovery‘s first season. She’s now tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets while facing the sins of her past.

Written by Craig Sweeny and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, Star Trek: Section 31 is executive produced by Alex Kurtzman, Craig Sweeny, Aaron Baiers, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth and Yeoh and is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment.

It was also revealed at Comic-Con that Miku Martineau (Honor Society) will play young Philippa in the movie. The rest of the cast includes Omari Hardwick (Power), Kacey Rahl (Hannibal), Sam Richardson (Ted Lasso), Sven Ruygrok (One Piece), Robert Kazinsky (Pacific Rim), Humberly Gonzalez (Ginny & Georgia) and James Hiroyuki Liao (Barry).

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Star Trek: Section 31 will stream exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and in all international markets where the service is available. The movie is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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