Understatement of the century
Michelle Yeoh Admits “We Could Have Done Better” With ‘Star Trek: Section 31’
Submitted 4 weeks ago by hopesdead@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website
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observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
This headline is a quote out of context that is being used to imply an admission.
I don’t mind the inference that the movie wasn’t what Yeoh had hoped it might be, but the headline is a misrepresentation of what she said.
What Yeoh actually said is:
Every time I finish a movie or something, I always think, ‘I could have done better,’ so it’s nothing new. That’s how you always have to think to improve yourself and to hopefully be better the next time.
My partner and I seem to be among the relatively few longtime fans who found the S31 film a blast. I still have to wonder though what we might have got if Kim and Lippoldt had been able to run the show that they originally conceived before Paramount added a male non-Asian action flick show runner ‘for experience’. The episode they wrote for Georgiou in S3 of Discovery was excellent and they have been successful writing on Sweet Tooth for seasons 2&3 since they moved on from Trek…
observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Thanks for clarifying. I responded to the title only as I didn’t actually care what Michelle Yeoh thinks and just want to put this sad story into the dustbin of Trekstory. Georgiou was the only mildly interesting character in Discovery and season 2 was the only mildly not-awful one, so I had moderate hopes for that movie.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
the characters that we built and the rapport that we had with each other was amazing
I have to admit, I thought Alok was a pretty interesting character. Sam Richardson was also very charismatic as Quasi, though he didn’t have much to do. And Young Garrett was okay, too.
I wouldn’t mind seeing any of those characters pop up again, with a better story.
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
It’s a good distinction to make that the characters were much more interesting than the story we saw.
I looked at a list of characters and I rank 4/7 of them as interesting, but sadly half of those were killed off :(
Space Hitler: 👎
Space Common: 👎
Quasi: 👍
Zeph 🪦: 👍
Garrett: 👍
Fuzz 🪦: 👎
Melle 🪦: 👍
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
I obviously think Georgiou is a more interesting character than you do, but other than that, I agree with this list.
ragas@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Its total bullshit to place a dystopian organisation so close to the center of a utopian society. It basically calls the whole society into question.
Kirk@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
And yet oddly enough that is not the issue with the Section 31 movie
ragas@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Ok, even better that I didn’t watch it then. I had rejected the movie on principle.
buzz86us@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Let’s cancel a TV show we just shot several episodes of and edit it into a movie!!
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
The pivot-to-movie happened well before anything was filmed.
But it does seem like the “pivot” was trying to stuff ten hours of story into a two-hour bag.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Did she write it?
I don’t fault the lead actress for a stupid movie. She still did a good job acting in it. I like her and I like her character. She probably did the best with what she was given. Her having to be the face of the apology is an insult, and those who should be apologizing are hiding behind her.
Unless she wrote it, that is.
Also.
Discovery isn’t what Trekkers want. Sure, it’s cool… but OG Discovery predates Kirk, and the last couple seasons are set so far in the future that we really don’t care. Discovery doesn’t speak to TOS fans (though it tried to with that badly shoehorned Spock connection) and it doesn’t speak to 90s Trekkers, either. I liked it, but it wasn’t what Trekkers want.
Look, TNG got a sequel series (Picard), Voyager got a sequel series (Prodigy)… what we want is for DS9 to get one. And since the Dominion War is over and done with, something with Section 31 would be fine… but that movie wasn’t it.
blueamigafan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I know it wasnt the greatest thing that’s ever been done under the star trek name, but I do think this could be the thing to get non Trekkies into trek. It was basically a fast and furious / mission impossible movie that happened to be in the star Trek universe. Sometimes something stupid but accessible can get people into a larger franchise. I am also really into Thunderbirds, the old puppet show made in the 60’s it got repeated in the UK in the 90’s and became a huge phenomenon way bigger than the first time it was shown. So inevitably a live action movie was made in the 00’s and it was absolutely awful, however when I have encountered younger fans who are into Thunderbirds they always point to the live action as their first exposure to it which led onto the original show. The only way was up once you got into it.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
I think that was definitely the idea. I’m somewhat skeptical that it worked, but it would be cool if it was a gateway movie for someone.
blueamigafan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Give it time you just never know…
fixmycode@feddit.cl 3 weeks ago
a lot of hate for the movie in this thread, hate the suits that develop projects based on the success of others instead of going for what has made their brand successful over the years. if they wanted new audiences they could have tried with something original, but the numbers said otherwise.
Damage@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
You could have done something else.
The cool thing about Section 31 was that it was ambiguous, did it really exist? Was it just one crazy guy? Then Discovery blew that up, and we could have just tried to forget it, but no, let’s make a movie about it.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
This was never credible, and was never how it was presented in DS9.
Even in “Inquisition”, Sloan had two other guys standing next to him, and an entire starship at his disposal. Starfleet Command covered for him at the end - something that was noted by the DS9 senior staff.
In subsequent episodes, Admiral Ross acknowledged their existence, and Bashir worked out what he believed to be the bare minimum number of operatives required to create the morphogenic virus (73).
Later, we saw them working for the United Earth Starfleet in the ENT era.
The only suggestion that it’s just “once crazy guy” comes from Koval, who then helps Sloan fake his death and is revealed to be a S31 asset in the very next scene.
So no, that’s not really something Discovery changed. People have had to wilfully ignore the DS9 episodes to buy into that theory.
thessnake03@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In ENT it’s very heavy handed that Malcom uses to work for section 31, and they really want him back. Big part of a story arc in the last season.
Damage@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
Yeah, way to focus on one part of the comment. Is it possible that Sloan just blackmailed or forced all those others into following his orders? Yes. Plausible? Eh…
Still, the point is the mistery, the ambiguity. Barely anyone knows they exist, Sisko, an experienced commander, didn’t know about them. The bigger they make them, the more unbelievable that becomes.
sanzky@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
they also play a big role in Into Darkness (not that anyone cares about that one…)