Star Trek thread of going to familiar places and beyond

[Tucker's Law]

the section 31 stuff thematically was a nice extension beyong bashirs Bond obsession, going further into what realpolitik and espionage is about than his interactions with garak who represented 'real' tradecraft and pragmatism vs the naive hollywood espionage ideas bashir had.

Also - at least in the beginning - it was very unclear to what extent section 31 was a real thing that was actually even a starfleet operation, vs just some dude doing shit of his own volition.

This was also kind of my take on it after the Bashir episodes (which I loved btw, I thought the concept for storytelling was great!), that s31 was very likely not even sanctioned by anyone in starfleet and instead a small rogue operation, just maybe a handful or even just a couple of guys (who probably were starfleet intelligence-adjacent) that thought they could recruit Julian into their more "proactive" cause.