I gave this a go last night. Found it hard to keep myself awake. I'm gonna say something that I haven't said before. This is Star Trek in name only. There is simply nothing about this production that is Star Trek. If you were to give this some other random name, it would be a stand-alone movie that is not related to anything that came before. I reckon it would have been better off for it. Having seen this, I am so glad that they made a movie instead of the TV show that was originally planned. The opening scene was very dark, and also predictable. That was perhaps also the best scene of the entire movie. The characters that made up the Section 31 "team" were stupid, and the acting was poor. The best character was probably Georgiou, but compared to what she could have been it fell flat as well. Not sure whether the actor is to blame on that one, or it was a result of poor writing and casting of the other characters. The overall story was lame as F. The picture quality was bad. I can't be certain that wasn't due to streaming, but since I was streaming through Paramount+ the quality should have been decent. Especially the scenes with the "out of phase" fighting were hard to watch, and of course the camera was all over the place any time there was action, making that hard to watch as well. There is nothing about this movie that stands out to me in a positive light, and given how forgiving I can generally be, that is a rare thing. I shall want no more of this Star Drek.
