Comment on ‘Dovercourt’ - perhaps aka Section 31 movie event hits the ‘Rumoured’ portion DGC Ontario Hotlist

• VindictiveJudge@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’ve been trying to give The Empress her own show and Worf said they were necessary. Depicting them as an official branch of Starfleet instead of a conspiracy within Starfleet also grants them legitimacy that they didn’t have in DS9. Even their plot in DSC S2 is specifically depicted as their AI going rogue rather than S31 doing anything wrong.

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  • ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sloan said they were an official branch of Starfleet Intelligence in his very first episode. That was never contradicted.

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    • VindictiveJudge@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The way he says it implies he’s not being entirely truthful.

      BASHIR: So which department are you with? SLOAN: Let’s just say I belong to another branch of Starfleet Intelligence. Our official designation is Section thirty one.

      I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone say, “let’s just say,” and had it been followed by a truthful statement.

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      • ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s not a phrase people use to indicate they’re lying - it suggests a long story or a complicated arrangement, but a fundamentally truthful one. This is backed up at the end of the episode, when Starfleet Command tells Sisko to take a hike when he asks about S31.

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