‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Ending Explained & Full Story: What Happens To Godsent?

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I’m not quite sure if the world needs a Star Trek film in 2025, but we’ve got one. Personally, though, I quite enjoy the franchise, although I don’t claim to be a Trekkie—it’s quite hard to keep track of all the films and series. Now, the good thing about the latest offering, Star Trek: Section 31, is you don’t have to be a Trekkie in order to watch it. Even if you haven’t seen anything from the franchise prior to this, you’re okay. Unfortunately, that’s the only good thing I can think of when it comes to Section 31 (that’s what I’m going to call it from this point). Sure, having an exciting cast led by very recent Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh can be considered a positive, but that hardly does any good. Yeoh is making a comeback to the universe, by the way, in case you need to know. Her character, Philippa Georgiou, has appeared before (in Star Trek: Discovery), but this one comes with a twist. This version of Phillipa is not the beloved captain who was one of the good guys. That Georgiou is dead, and the one you see in the movie is the evil emperor, with no small amount of blood on her hand. She is still the hero, though, as the character is done with being evil and ultimately joins the team of misfit heroes for a mission. Yeah, it does seem a lot like Suicide Squad and Guardians of the Galaxy, but I don’t think James Gunn will bother to take action against Paramount. Anyway, let us get on with the movie and discuss the ending.

Spoilers Ahead


What Happens In The Movie?

It opens with a scene from the past. Young Philippa Georgiou poisons her own family and kills them in order to win the final challenge of a contest that potentially makes her the leader of the Terran empire. Her competitor, San, has failed the task, and he now has to remain a slave of Philippa for the rest of his life. What complicates things further here is Philippa and San being in love with each other. But given how Philippa doesn’t hesitate to burn one side of San’s face as a marking of his enslavement to her, it is clear that for her, power is the most important thing in the world.

Cut to present time, Philippa spends her days at Baraam—which is basically a bar—without much of a purpose. Her sass and wickedness never left her, though. Anyway, she gets a chance at redemption when she is approached by Section 31, a special division of Starfleet, for a mission. Georgiou says yes, and the movie gets the ball rolling. The mission appears to be simple—preventing one Dada Noe from selling a super weapon. The weapon is called Godsent, and it happens to have been commissioned by Georgiou herself in the past, during her emperorship. Godsent is built for mass destruction, and there’s no failsafe option, which obviously makes things a bit tricky for our heroes. The Section 31 team is headed by de facto leader Alok, who’s the main strategist. Then we have Rachel, who’s the Starfleet representative, and her job is the supervision of the mission. Other members are Chameloid Quasi; Nanokin Fuzz, who looks like a Vulcan; mechanical suit-wearing Zeph; and Deltan operative Mell. These terms might seem otherworldly to you if you’re unfamiliar with the universe, but I am certain this was no hindrance for you to follow the story. 

Had the team stopped Dada Noe from selling Godsent on the first attempt, this movie wouldn’t have much meaning. So inevitably, it goes south. They do capture Dada Noe but fail to stop whoever was looking for the weapon. The team was not prepared for the attack that ends up killing Mell, and we also realize there’s a mole in the team. 


Who is the mole?

The rule of thumb here is: never the guy who seems like the villain, unless the movie is pulling the rug from under you. Since this one is pretty much a no-nonsense generic affair without any substantial effort, the moment it starts to look like machine man Zeph is our mole, we are pretty certain he actually isn’t. It ultimately turns out to be Fuzz, who kills the one you suspected as the mole in the first place—Zeph. He also tries to pin the murder on Rachel and eventually kill everyone else in the team but doesn’t manage to do so as Rachel blows up his ship with explosives. Ideally, it should have killed him, but since he’s a Nanokin, he can survive. By the end of the movie, we also come across another Vulcan called Wisp, who’s Fuzz’s wife. She doesn’t seem to believe that he is dead and is quite mad at him for his actions.


How Did They Save The Prime Universe? 

The movie’s big reveal of its villain should not surprise anyone, as it happens to be none other than San. Yeah, it is Philippa’s competitor from that challenge years ago who had to spend his life as her slave. Obviously, San has a clear motive for revenge. Philippa, of course, thought San was dead, which happened when he was delivering the weapon to her and the poison killed him. Except the guy actually staged his death and waited till Georgiou was off the throne. He then thought it would be better to acquire Godsent and kill everyone in the Prime Universe and make a new universe—a better and righteous one. Thanks to Section 31, San’s plan fails; and Philippa and he have a tearful reunion before he ultimately dies. Philippa and Alok almost sacrifice themselves in order to save everyone else from Godsent, but Quasi and Rachel rescue them in the nick of time. The movie ends with the Section 31 control appearing through a hologram (played by the ever-so-amazing Jamie Lee Curtis, Yeoh’s Oscar-winning co-star from Everything Everywhere All at Once) and giving the team another task. That only means we’re going to see more of Section 31 in the future. I just hope next time they put some effort into whatever they’re making.


Rohitavra Majumdar
Rohitavra Majumdar
Rohitavra likes to talk about movies, music, photography, food, and football. He has a government job to get by, but all those other things are what keep him going.


 

 

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