When the direct-to-streaming movie Star Trek: Section 31 hits Paramount+ in January, it will represent the end of a very long road. It all started with a bonus scene at the end of Discovery Season 1, in which the Mirror version of Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) was recruited into Starfleet’s spy division, Section 31. In 2019, Georgiou returned as a full-on operative in Discovery Season 2, and it was quickly announced that she would be given her own spinoff series, Section 31.
That series never materialized. Instead, after Georgiou stepped through the Guardian of Forever and back into the past in Discovery Season 3, the fate of the darker, off-beat Trek spinoff was unclear. Now, after several behind-the-scenes changes, that series is a one-off streaming movie. And the director of that movie, Olatunde Osunsanmi, has just spoken about the very long journey from 2019 to today.
