' A BAD TREK ' : SECTION 31 REVIEW

STREAMING ONLINE : Trek section 31 is rated PG 13. Technically there is nothing sexual, gory or atrocious here......... unless one counts the bad writing, direction and overall intelligence.

THERE is no spoonful of sugar that would help Star Trek : Section 31 be palatable.

As a long-time '' Trekker'' - the definition of a loyal, serious Star Trak fan - the first minutes of  Star Trek : Section  31 force you to ask a question that is a borderline blasphemous : is this really  Star Trek, or am I watching something out of Star Wars?

The latter is, of course, the once gold-standard, now universally panned, space-fantasy created by George Lucas that has been abused to no end by the Disney regime.

The very utterance of naming these two franchises in a single sentence runs chills down my spine.

While Star Wars had long lost its plot since  Episode VII and subsequent movies and series. [  with few minor saving graces ], Star Wars has been doing slightly better. when it comes to braving the change of the times.

The J.J. ABRAMS LED 2009 reboot had long cast a shadow on the spotty film continuations since the Robert [ Sound of Music ] Wise-directed  Star-Trek : The Motion Picture in 1979 to the better-done Nemesis [ 2002 ] the tenth film of the lot.

But then again, if you thought some of these movies were a step down from any of the series, then, you haven't - and shouldn't - watch Section 31.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, with its screenplay written by Craig Sweeny, this okay-in-thought-bad-in-everything else pill is hard to swallow; there is a spoonful of sugar that would help this dose of toxins go down.

This film is a spin-off from the show Star Trek; Discovery, but you don't need to watch it to understand what's happening here.

Its generic-ish plot sees a young Philippa Georgiou of parallel universe rising as the tyrannical queen [ Miku Martineau doing a better job from Michelle Yeoh, when the character gets older ], who somehow is running a posh-but-dubious establishment at the very fringes of the Federation the good guys jurisdiction.

The World Students Society thanks Mohammad  Kamran Jawaid.