It doesn’t matter what aspect of the galaxy you are on relating to your opinion of Paramount+’s first-ever direct-to-streaming “Star Trek” movie, “Part 31,” we are able to a minimum of all agree (hopefully) that the enjoyable cameo on the very finish of the film was unexpectedly amusing and does depart a gap for a possible sequel.
Spoilers forward: If you have not seen the film but, take a look at our How one can watch Star Trek: Part 31 information for more information.
That particular scene happens when Emperor Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) and her motley crew of black ops brokers end their first mission to avoid wasting the United Federation of Planets from a doomsday bomb known as The Godsend. All of them reconvene past the borders of Federation house again at Georgiou’s house station nightclub/on line casino, The Baraam, to share a celebratory toast for a job effectively completed averting the apocalyptic calamity.
An incoming holographic transmission arrives from the key unit’s Part 31 director delivering their subsequent harmful mission and vacation spot. This Management character is performed by Michelle Yeoh’s good pal and “All the things, In all places, All At As soon as” colleague Jamie Lee Curtis!
She seems as a violet-skinned cyborg and is immediately acknowledged because the voice of the Precedence Message alert despatched to the Alpha Staff Chief at first of the movie after the stunning flashback sequence displaying how Georgiou turned the Terran Emperor.
Management addresses the gathered group that features Alok (Omari Hardwick), Rachel Garrett (Kacey Rohl), Quasi (Sam Richardson), and Fuzz’s sassy spouse Wisp (Sven Ruygrok) to inform them that their commando group will keep in operation and asks, “Has anyone been to Turkana IV?” That exact planet is a geeky callback to the colonized world that was residence to Lt. Tasha Yar and her sister Ishara Yar from “Star Trek: The Subsequent Era.”
Director Olatunde Osunsanmi defined to EW how Michelle Yeoh helped make the preparations that introduced Curtis into the “Star Trek” universe for the primary time.
“We had been discussing as producers who ought to play this half,” he tells EW. “We went by a number of names, after which we landed on, ‘What if it had been Jamie Lee Curtis? Okay, effectively, who amongst us is aware of Jamie Lee Curtis? Oh yeah! Michelle is aware of Jamie Lee Curtis.’ Michelle’s like, ‘In fact, I will put in phrase.’ However then what we realized concurrently was that Alex’s cousin — the cousin of prime ‘Star Trek’ producer Alex Kurtzman — additionally represents Jamie Lee Curtis. So we had been in a position to speak to her by two totally different avenues, and all of it got here collectively very simply.”
Will Curtis be introduced again for a “Star Trek: Part 31” follow-up collection or one other streaming film? It is extra probably that this was a one-and-done challenge contemplating the unfavorable opinions however we’d definitely by no means wager in opposition to it!
“Star Trek: Part 31” is at present streaming solely on Paramount+.
