By Chris Snellgrove
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Recently, the latest Star Trek film was released, but you may not have noticed. After all, it was given directly to Paramount + rather than theaters. In addition, this was originally supposed to be a television series before being transformed into a film, so the film always felt a kind of Mary’s hail to keep the living franchise after the sudden cancellations of the two Discovery And Lower bridges. I have had a bad feeling about this film since it was announced, and these feelings are now validated: with a rotten score of 24%, Article 31 is officially the second first film Star Trek of all time.
Star Trek Sols
Article 31 To an intrigue that looks like each bad idea of Nutrek was placed in a mixer and turned into an hour and forty minutes of pure slobe. Empress Georgiou must again work with section 31, this time to stop a villain from the mirror universe who wants to kill everyone in the main universe. She does it with an eclectic team that feels like having been picked up with an evil science fiction Sticking film, but the only thing these guys are flying is the time you could have spent a better film.
On DiscoveryTilly has once praised “the power of mathematics” and speaking of figures, it is quite easy to see how Article 31 does not add up compared to the other films in the franchise. With 24% Rotten tomatoes score, this new film is barely ahead of Star Trek V: the final borderwhich has a 23%critical score. For the context, The final border is the most sadly famous film in the franchise; the one where Captain Kirk Combat God between mountain climbing and ask important questions like: “What does God need with a ship?”
A tired plot
As for the details of what makes Article 31 So bad, let’s start with the plot. This amounts to “let’s use a manic supervillain to destroy the galaxy”. That’s just what each Kelvinverse The film was summed up, reducing a deductible built on the importance of communication and exploration for a plot-off plot of “Kill the Bad Guy, except the day”. Frankly, this repeated intrigue was the worst part of the Kelvinverse films, but they were anchored by a charming and charismatic distribution. Unfortunately, Article 31 is not.
Admittedly, Michelle Yeoh, winner of an Oscar, made her best with the horrible material given to him, but it is functionally impossible to avoid comparing the horrible writing of Article 31 with the perfect writing of pitch of All everywhere at the same time. We have seen what she can do when we give her an excellent script, and the script of this last script of Star Trek film is completely awful. It looks like an immense waste of Yeoh talents, even if the film itself seems to be a complete waste of the narration potential of this franchise.
The other actors of Article 31 Do their best, but they are hampered by bad characterization … that is, almost all of them feel like half cooked characters from a Starfinder Campaign with the most tenuous Star Trek connections. There is an increase, a Deltan, and even Rachel Garrett, the future condemned captain of the Enterprise C. But the simple fact is that simply to slap a Star Trek connection to a badly written character does not make them magical the biggest fans .
Finish this Star Trek era
Even if the Discovery spin off Starfleet Academy is at the corner of the street, Article 31 Feels like the end of an era, which ends with the controversial insistence of this previous program on section 31 a huge part of its plot. From the start, many fans hated the whole idea of section 31, because it made no sense that the starfleet hippies had their own secret Wetworks.
Now we get a whole movie Focus on the most amoral group outside the federation, and watch Primordial Go there on something that fans hate rather than give us more of what we love is like a metaphor for the current state of Star Trek. While I appreciated some of the Discovery and all Lower bridgesIt has been clear that the franchise has been in a descending spiral for a very long time now, in particular with these two programs canceled prematurely. Unfortunately, Article 31 confirms that we have reached the end of the spiral. Star Trek is dead, Jim.
And unlike SpockThere may be no one left who cares enough to bring this franchise back to life.
