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‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Director on How Michelle Yeoh Was a ‘Force’ In Turning a Stalled Out TV Series Into the First ‘Trek’ Streaming Movie
"Star Trek: Section 31" director Olatunde Osunsanmi explains how Michelle Yeoh was vital in making the first "Trek" streaming movie a reality.
Created by Ira Steven Behr and first introduced in a 1998 episode of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” Section 31 was initially envisioned as a covert, morally grey, cloak-and-dagger branch of Starfleet whose existence is known only to those involved. When a team of Section 31 operatives Alok (Omari Hardwick), Quasi (Sam Richardson), Garrett (Kacey Rohl), Zeph (Robert Kazinsky), Fuzz (Sven Ruygrok), and Melle (Humberly González) come to her bar for a mission, Georgiou ends up recruited to the cause, and joins the ramshackle crew in a race to stop an apocalyptic threat. Ahead of the “Section 31” premiere on Paramount+, Osunsanmi spoke to Variety about what survived from the TV show to the film, collaborating with Yeoh on the character and her fight scenes, navigating the famously opinionated “Star Trek” fanbase, and his lifelong love affair with science fiction.
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