***SPOILERS*** In the latest episode of STD ‘Saints of Imperfection’ we once again bear witness to more blatant continuity errors.
The group ‘Section 31’ was first established in 1996 on ST: Deep Space Nine as a covert Federation organization that was part of the original starfleet charter and had existed in secret for over 200 years (at that point). So much secretive that the high ranking officers of DS9 had no idea who they were or that they even existed.
Now in this latest episode of STD Emperor Georgio (Michelle Yeoh) comes onboard Discovery and flashes her fancy Section 31 insignia to Captain Pike and Burnham and Pike responds to her and acknowledges Section 31 as if he is fully aware of who they are and what they do. Pike even has a conversation with an old buddy who commands Georgio. Now with STD being a prequel series and Section 31 established as being top secret >100 years before STD on ST:Enterprise and 100+ years after on ST:DS9 how could anyone know who or what Section 31 is during the time period of STD?
Again this is one of the many problems plaguing STD:
CONTINUITY ERRORS!!!!!
Can anyone at the STD writers room do some research please????
I keep watching in the hopes this series will get better. Anson Mount is great as Captain Pike, Cadet Tilley and Commander Saru are also great...and that’s about it. The handling of Section 31 is just another example of a creative mis-fire. It’s my hope that someone at the current Star Trek offices just comes out and admits that this series is its own continuity and nothing else that happened before on the other Star Trek series matters.
I think an admittance of that would relieve a lot of stress that established Star Trek fans (like myself) have been feeling while watching STD. Remember that the producers have been stating all along that STD is in continuity and that they would be respectful of what came before, which they clearly are not...
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