Star Trek: Section 31 starring Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh is officially greenlit and coming to Paramount+. The Star Trek franchise on Paramount+ is continuing to expand in spite of the cancelation of Star Trek: Discovery and the conclusion of Star Trek: Picard with season 3. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is about start production on season 3, Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 is also happening, and recently, Paramount+ announced a new series, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, to begin production in 2024.
Today, Paramount+ announced that the long-awaited Star Trek: Section 31 will be an original movie event starring Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh reprising her role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou. The film is written by Craig Sweeney and directed by Olatunde Osunsamni. In Star Trek: Section 31, Emperor Georgiou "joins a secret division of Starfleet tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets and faces the sins of her past." The first original Star Trek movie made for Paramount+, Section 31 will begin production later this year. Section 31 fulfills an idea of Yeoh's to do a spinoff focusing on Emperor Georgiou that goes "all the way back to 2017," says executive producer Alex Kurtzman.
