Following the trailer and announcement of a January premiere for the Michelle Yeoh-led “Star Trek: Section 31” film last weekend, some more details have emerged about the project’s genesis. As we know, the plan was originally for a new TV series before the project fell apart and was then reconceived as a feature and the whole thing persevered thanks to star Michelle Yeoh. The film’s director Olatunde Osunsanmi breaks down the history of the project with , saying: “This project was Michelle’s idea.
She brought it to Alex [Kurtzman] who brought it to the Roddenberrys and to Paramount+ originally as a TV show. Then it came together, it fell apart, it came together, it fell apart. Before I was in television, I was strictly doing features, and in features, my experience was things fall apart all the time, so you gotta try and be zen.
It’s heartbreaking, but you gotta be zen about it.” So she stayed patient and was helped by having “Kurtzman, Yeoh and a studio that, no matter what we went through, really believed in it”. Now though, they have to face the fans: “So, you flash forward to now and it’s a movie, and and we’re done.
It’s like, ‘Oh my god.’ We pushed the boulder up the hill and now the new stress comes along, which is we have to show it to the world – did we do everything we could possibly do to make it as Star Trek as possible, yet not? And for it to be the best possible thing that it could be? I think we got it there, and I hope you agr.