"Because I can't imagine things getting much worse."
Having gone through various story and format permutations - originally conceived as a standard TV series - this character spin-off from Star Trek: Discovery lands as a 'television event movie', in which Emperor Georgiou is tracked down to join The Federation's clandestine operations unit to infiltrate a universe-scale terrorist threat from beyond Federation space. After a strong and promising flashback opening that reveals Georgiou's early days, the film quickly sets itself up as a noisy, talky, bog-standard Mission: Impossible-styled sci-fi runaround that tries to do something different from the veteran franchise but is quite dull in spite of some whizzy VFX sequences, as the team chases the MacGuffin (here, a Terran biotech weapon) from one location to the next. Michelle Yeoh, the driving force behind this enterprise, is clearly having fun and plays her familiar character with relish, which the rest of the anonymous Section 31 team makes very little impression, apart from Brit Rob Kazinsky as a gobby cyber-Hicks who does not get enough screen time. The Star Trek universe has always relied on the interactions and relationships between its characters built up over time, making a one-off such as this difficult with which to fully engage.
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