Star Trek Section 31 Reviews Are Starting to Roll In...

[Astyanax]

And it's official: truly, truly bad:

Star Trek: Section 31 review: An embarrassment from start to end

Star Trek: Section 31 is Trek at its face-punching, eye-gouging grimdark worst.

www.engadget.com

It will be interesting to see which outlets will roll over for Kurtzman.

 

[dkaniel]

 

[batguy]

And it's official: truly, truly bad:

Star Trek: Section 31 review: An embarrassment from start to end

Star Trek: Section 31 is Trek at its face-punching, eye-gouging grimdark worst.

www.engadget.com

"It’s not incoherent, but suffers from the same issue that blighted Discovery, where you’re watching a dramatized synopsis rather than a script. There are thematic and plot beats that rhyme with each other, but the meat joining them all together isn’t there. It’s just stuff that happens."

"It doesn’t help that the plot (credited to Kim and Lippoldt) is very much of the “and then this happens” variety that they warn you about in Film School 202. So many major moments in the film are totally unearned, asking you to care about characters you’ve only just met and don’t much like. There’s a risible scene at the end where two people who haven’t really given you the impression they’re into each other have to hold hands and stare into their impending doom. The pair in question have shared their backstories with each other, but there’s no suggestion that they are anything more than just people working together on a job, let alone friends."

This all reeks of AI-generated script content.

 

[renaissance_man]

Is anyone really surprised?
Kurtzman and JJ Trek started out and awful load of crap and hasn't improved.
I wish Paramount/CBS would stop wasting millions of dollars on all of this generic pew pew nonsense and use that money to remaster DS9 and Voyager in HD, even if it was just the episodes without any extras, of course I would love all the extras a la the TNG series blu rays, but at this point I would just love both series in HD on Blu-ray.

 

[Wakeem]

Did anyone want to see this kind of Star Trek? I watched the trailer some time back and it didn't feel like Star Trek or interest me at all. Although, I didn't really care for the Deep Space 9 episodes that introduced this group either. And only watched I think the first two episodes of Discovery and read wiki on the rest.

I still have a plan to re-watch all of the Star Trek TV series stopping with Enterprise. For some reason I stopped after a season of so of Enterprise. I can't remember why. I think it was getting a bit boring. But I found a channel on cable that shows TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise every night. I watched a time travel episode of Enterprise that wasn't that great but it was fun as it had Archer and Tpol figuring out how to drive a car.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

And it's official: truly, truly bad:

Star Trek: Section 31 review: An embarrassment from start to end

Star Trek: Section 31 is Trek at its face-punching, eye-gouging grimdark worst.

www.engadget.com

It will be interesting to see which outlets will roll over for Kurtzman.

 

[AnubisGuard]

I expected the geek press to savage it, but the mainstream outlets like EW and RogerEbert tearing it a new one lets me know it's a real stinker.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Holy Hilarity.

I absolutely cannot stop giggling at the horrible costume design exhibited by this guy that just screams low-budget late 1980’s “future-man cyborg sci-fi character”.

Is this a Roger Corman production?

 

[Captain Dunsel]

This pretty much sums it up…

Critics Have Seen Star Trek: Section 31. And They Aren't Holding Back On Their Opinion Of Michelle Yeoh's 'Bungled' Spinoff Film

Everyone is saying the same thing.

www.cinemablend.com

 

[renaissance_man]

Holy Hilarity.

I absolutely cannot stop giggling at the horrible costume design exhibited by this guy that just screams low-budget late 1980’s sci-fi character:

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That looks like something a baddy of the week would wear on Power Rangers.

 

[robn1]

I absolutely cannot stop giggling at the horrible costume design exhibited by this guy that just screams low-budget late 1980’s sci-fi character:

That's what I said about Kylo Ren and the first order troopers.

 

[Gregatron]

That's what I said about Kylo Ren and the first order troopers.

“Apple Store Troopers” was my take.


And STAR TREK ended in 2005. What we have now is a skinsuit being puppeteered by incompetents and lunatics.

 

[edge10]

Holy Hilarity.

I absolutely cannot stop giggling at the horrible costume design exhibited by this guy that just screams low-budget late 1980’s sci-fi character:

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Any questions?

 

[AnubisGuard]

I thought of Stargate SG-1

 

[Lord Boron]

Holy Hilarity.

I absolutely cannot stop giggling at the horrible costume design exhibited by this guy that just screams low-budget late 1980’s sci-fi character:

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Looks like something from Ice Pirates.

 

[blewis17]

Looks like something from Ice Pirates.

Part of the problem is... how do you "dress up" a human being's body to make it look sci-fi, that's NOT different than anything that has come before? Over the past 60 years, it has been done to death in TV and film. You have a 5'6" - 6' actor with 2 arms, 2 legs... and you basically bolt auto parts onto a rubber undersuit and glue rubber to their face, until you get the look you want. Which limits what you can do, so everything looks derivative. And cheap.

It's the borgification of sci-fi. They've tried their best to shake it up:
1) Make a being with special FX removable arms and legs (Borg queen)
2) Take your Borg-like figure and strip them down to a skin tight unitard (7 of 9)
3) Make your baddie a human brain controlling a mechanical body (Robocop 2, FallOut TV series)
4) Stick a thin actor inside a full mechanical suit (Star Wars, Orville, Dr. Who, etc)

I wish that amputee patients would receive more featured sci-fi roles, rather than the military productions that use them as soldiers who get their limbs blown off. Think about the variety.. you could have your actor with prosthetic mechanical/robotic appendages that were "real"

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Any questions?

 

[TazMan2000]

Now that they’ve wasted money on this project, they won’t be too willing to invest in other ST projects that actually could be entertaining and profitable.

I saw the previews and thought that this is going to be a stinker.

When is the premiere of the next season of Strange New Worlds?

TazMan2000

 

[robn1]

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[Astyanax]

I find it interesting that Variety and Vulture have posted no review whatsoever...

Interesting, but not surprising.