Jeremy Murphy

Writers of Star Trek's many iterations get it more or less right, with the occasional, inexplicable duds. We all know of one or two excruciating episodes we would prefer to forget. Section 31 was a story line pregnant with possiblity, lead by an actress and character who were made for each other. What happened? Someone had the unusual idea of channeling the Marvel franchise. Someone else then suggested taking the skeletal outlines of Marvel characters, and fleshing them out with ham. See how close embarrassing can we go. Then the script team must have thought, well all we need to do is take all this, screw dialogue, character/plot development, Let's feed all this to an AI script bot then go off for a long boozy lunch. So off to the races- or hell. Trekkies would quietly to a near individual admit their favourite franchise, very occasionally skirts against the borders of fanciful, if not actual absurdity. Yet for the most part that is slight, edge of the narrative incidence. It takes care, talent, and due respect to the broader saga to keep spiritual continuity intact avoiding these pitfalls. Where this Section 31 melange fits in the ST universe is best not considered, that might suggest it has any place there.