02-04-2025, 10:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-06-2025, 06:38 AM by benji.
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Section 31 as shown in DS9 wasn't odd, you had a literal attempted coup on Earth earlier in the show, Star Trek VI is a plot about hardliners in Starfleet, even TOS/TNG showed members of Starfleet organized or not who wanted it to take out threats they perceived, etc.
Section 31 as a permanent major feature, that everyone is aware of and has their own distinct combadges and the show treats as important heroes is odd. But Kurtzman has quite made clear he thinks Section 31 type entities are the only way any kind of society can exist.
I think in the case of Enterprise that like many things they were trying to show it as a precursor to what we came to know, a halfway point between our current Earth intelligence agencies and what Starfleet would have, but they failed to really think about it and execute it how it should be. Similar to how they did the Ferengi or Borg or a bunch of other stuff. This is an overall problem with Enterprise, one of execution, versus outright contempt for Trek like Discovery.
Section 31 as a permanent major feature, that everyone is aware of and has their own distinct combadges and the show treats as important heroes is odd. But Kurtzman has quite made clear he thinks Section 31 type entities are the only way any kind of society can exist.
I think in the case of Enterprise that like many things they were trying to show it as a precursor to what we came to know, a halfway point between our current Earth intelligence agencies and what Starfleet would have, but they failed to really think about it and execute it how it should be. Similar to how they did the Ferengi or Borg or a bunch of other stuff. This is an overall problem with Enterprise, one of execution, versus outright contempt for Trek like Discovery.
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