Star Trek: Section 31 surrounds Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh’s anti-heroine, Emperor Philippa Georgiou, with a mysterious team of dangerous misfits. Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi and written by Craig Sweeny, Star Trek: Section 31 premieres Friday, January 24, 2025, on Paramount+. Section 31 is the first Star Trek movie made for streaming on Paramount+, and it’s the first new Star Trek movie in 9 years since Star Trek Beyond hit theaters in 2016.
Much of Star Trek: Section 31 is shrouded in mystery, which is appropriate for the black ops agency charged with using any means necessary to protect the United Federation of Planets. Section 31‘s main story is set at some point in the early 24th century, dubbed Star Trek’s “lost era,” which is the decades between Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and the beginning of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Section 31 introduces a slew of new faces, but at least one is a Star Trek legacy character, and others are familiar alien species. With Star Trek: Section 31 delving into the sins of the secret organization as well as the past of Emperor Georgiou herself, here’s what we know so far about who’s who in this new incarnation of Section 31.
7 Emperor Philippa Georgiou
Played by Michelle Yeoh
Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh reprises her iconic role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou in Star Trek: Section 31. Introduced in Star Trek: Discovery, Emperor Georgiou is the former despotic ruler of the Terran Empire in the Mirror Universe who now resides in Star Trek‘s Prime Universe. In Star Trek: Discovery season 3, Georgiou was deemed as sufficiently changed from her evil ways by the Guardian of Forever (Paul Guilfoyle), and Philippa was sent away from the 32nd century to a point in the past where the Prime and Mirror Universes were still aligned. It seems Georgiou arrives in Star Trek‘s 24th century in Section 31.
Georgiou is highly intelligent and possesses formidable combat skills.
Emperor Georgiou may no longer be the ruthless and murderous fascist she was when she was the absolute ruler of the Terran Empire, but Georgiou is still one of the most dangerous individuals in the universe. Georgiou is highly intelligent and possesses formidable combat skills. Philippa harbors a great deal of knowledge about events in the future and across two realities. In Star Trek: Discovery season 2, Georgiou was a member of Section 31, and she had access to whatever hidden data the agency had in the mid-23rd century.
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Star Trek: Section 31 looks to continue Emperor Georgiou’s redemption story, juxtaposed with the details of how the young Philippa Georgiou (Miku Martineau) rose to become Emperor of the Terrans. Since Section 31 already has a team in the new Star Trek movie, and Georgiou appears to be a misfit among misfits who don’t trust her but need the Emperor’s stills all the same.
6 Rachel Garrett
Played by Kacey Rohl
Kacey Rohl plays Rachel Garrett in Star Trek: Section 31. The name Rachel Garrett is familiar and heralded among Star Trek fans because of her previous lone appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s classic “Yesterday’s Enterprise.”Captain Rachel Garrett (Tricia O’Neil) led the doomed USS Enterprise-C and sacrificed herself and her crew to restore Star Trek‘s altered Prime Timeline. Garrett was even honored with a statue, dubbed ‘The Red Lady’, on M’Talas Prime in Star Trek: Picard season 3.
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Kacey Rohl’s younger Rachel Garrett is years away from becoming the Captain of the Enterprise, but she is the only true Starfleet Officer in Section 31. Garrett’s role in Star Trek: Section 31 is to enforce Starfleet standards and prevent unnecessary bloodshed. Yet simply being part of Section 31 reveals a darker side to Rachel Garrett’s Starfleet patina, proving the martyred Enterprise Captain had shades of grey in her past.
5 Alok
Played By Omari Hardwick
Omari Hardwick plays Alok, Section 31’s team leader. Apparently human, Alok is not Starfleet material because of his mental issues and darker view of the universe, thus he joined Section 31. It’s Alok who assembles Section 31’s team for the movie’s main mission. However, Alok knows all about who Emperor Georgiou is, and he doesn’t trust Philippa in the slightest. Yet Alok and Section 31 evidently need Georgiou to accomplish its mission.
4 Quasi
Played by Sam Richardson
Sam Ricardson plays Quasi, who is Section 31’s physicist and also a shapeshifter. Quasi is a Chameloid, a race of changelings, which makes him ideal for Section 31 as a spy and infiltrator. Quasi’s knowledge of physics would also deem him Section 31’s resident Science Officer. Quasi, like the rest of Section 31, has no reason to trust Emperor Georgiou, but he’s also a team player fighting for the cause.
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Quasi is only the second Chameloid seen in Star Trek canon. Chameloids are different shapeshifters from the Changelings introduced in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The original Chameloid was Martia, played by Iman, the criminal prisoner and would-be assassin of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. One of the exciting aspects of Star Trek: Section 31 is seeing a new Chameloid in action, and finding out more about Quasi’s shapeshifting people.
3 Fuzz
Played by Sven Ruygrok
One of Star Trek: Section 31‘s mystery characters is Sven Ruygrok’s Fuzz. With his pointed ears, Fuzz could be a Vulcan, but his emotional demeanor suggests he is a Romulan. Or, perhaps he is both. It’s unknown what function Fuzz serves in Section 31, but either Vulcan logic or a Romulan’s penchant for deceit and treachery are valuable assets to the black ops agency.
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If Fuzz is a Romulan, then one of his people working for Section 31 and protecting the Federation is extremely unusual, especially for the early 24th century. Romulans infiltrate Starfleet and wreak havoc across the Federation in Star Trek: Picard, but Fuzz would precede this by many decades. Fuzz is worth keeping an eye on, especially to see if he has any secret family ties to Vulcan Starfleet Officer Lt. Saavik (Kirstie Alley, Robin Curtis) or the traitor, Lt. Valeris (Kim Cattrall).
2 Zeph
Played by Rob Kazinsky
Rob Kazinsky plays the armored warrior Zeph in Star Trek: Section 31. Despite his cybernetic enhancements, Zeph is evidently wearing a battle suit and is not a member of the Borg Collective. This tracks since the Federation doesn’t encounter the Borg until Star Trek: The Next Generation. Zeph is another Section 31 recruit who is unfit for Starfleet but found a home within the underground black ops division. Zeph is loyal to Alok and appears to be Section 31’s resident human in battle mech, ready to blow things up at a moment’s notice.
1 Melle
Played by Humberly Gonzalez
Another puzzling member of Section 31 is Melle, the bald, bubblegum-blowing mystery woman played by Humberly Gonzalez. Melle’s bald appearance hints that she could be a Deltan, a sexually seductive race first seen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The original Deltan in Star Trek was Lieutenant Ilia (Persis Khambatta), the navigator of the USS Enterprise, and paramour of Captain Will Decker (Stephen Collins).
Deltans were also seen in the first episode of
Star Trek: Picard
season 2, “The Star Gazer,” as they opened diplomatic relations with Soji (Isa Briones) and the synthetics of Coppelius on Raritan IV.
As a Deltan, Lt. Ilia had to swear an oath of celibacy to join Starfleet, but it’s possible Melle did no such thing if she is even formally a part of Starfleet as a member of Section 31. It’s unclear what role Melle has in Section 31, but perhaps she is able to glean information from targets, turning the unwilling into the willing with her Deltan sexuality. Melle could finally reveal more about Deltans in Star Trek: Section 31, and she is certainly a character to keep an eye on.
- Director
- Olatunde Osunsanmi
- Release Date
- January 24, 2025
- Studio(s)
- CBS
- Writers
- Craig Sweeney