It doesn’t matter what facet of the galaxy you are on relating to your opinion of Paramount+’s first-ever direct-to-streaming “Star Trek” movie, “Part 31,” we will at the very least 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 The best way to 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 referred to 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 executed 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 buddy and “The whole lot, All over the place, 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 surprising flashback sequence exhibiting how Georgiou turned the Terran Emperor.
Management addresses the gathered staff 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 specific planet is a geeky callback to the colonized world that was house 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 have been discussing as producers who ought to play this half,” he tells EW. “We went by way of a number of names, after which we landed on, ‘What if it have 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 am going to put in a very good 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 have been capable of discuss to her by way of two completely different avenues, and all of it got here collectively very simply.”
Will Curtis be introduced again for a “Star Trek: Part 31” follow-up sequence or one other streaming film? It is extra possible that this was a one-and-done venture contemplating the unfavorable evaluations however we’d definitely by no means wager towards it!
“Star Trek: Part 31” is presently streaming completely on Paramount+.
