The decision to make Section 31 the next best thing to public knowledge in #StarTrekDiscovery was such a bad choice. Partially because it doesn’t fit what we know about the group from the other shows, but more because it just doesn’t work.
Section 31 works as the dark side to the Starfleet’s noble values if it is a secret. Because the cool nugget of an idea DS9 tried to explore is that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Somebody is doing the dirty work even in a 24th century utopia.
But if everyone in Starfleet knows about S31 - and there’s not a single Disco character who even feigns a “never heard of them” - then there’s nothing there to explore. In fact, you’re just saying Starfleet is consciously making morally suspect choices out in the open.
They even establish the S31 is overseen by a group of Starfleet admirals, and everyone understands it’s their job. What is that supposed to add that’s remotely interesting to explore? I don’t think it adds anything.
Hopefully, if the Section 31 show goes ahead, it can get back to asking more interesting questions than “what if Starfleet Security wore leather?”
And do not even get me started on how they surgically removed everything interesting about the Control concept from the books. Infuriating that they didn’t have more courage than to turn Control into a generic evil AI.
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