Watching the "Star Trek" movies in order of release also places them in proper continuity order, since the original cast handed off the film series to the "Next Generation" cast in 1994 after the final episode of "The Next Generation," and the reboot movies follow their own continuity that branches off from the main timeline.

The Original Series USS Enterprise in-joke actually gives Star Trek: Section 31's team a fighting chance when they need it most.

Star Trek: Section 31 is coming in hot with a teaser that flips the usual Star Trek formula on its head. Premiering at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, the trailer is packed with more action than Trekkies are used to, and it’s bringing a new level of intensity.

In the fourth Star Trek film, a giant cylinder-shaped space object lingers over Earth’s orbit, emitting sounds of extinct humpback whales. The probe causes massive disasters on Earth, so the Enterprise crew must travel back in time to the '80s to find whales and bring them to the future.

Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 took place from 2258-2259, while Star Trek: Section 31 is set around 2324. In other words, the Guardian of Forever dropped Georgiou off nearly 70 years after the events of Season 2. Now that’s all fine and good, but here’s the problem: the movie in no way addresses that long gap in time.

Section 31? For our answer, we’ll have to dig into decades of behind-the-scenes intrigue and centuries of Star Trek continuity.

Section 31’s Rotten Tomatoes score puts it at the bottom of the list of all the Trek movies, which began in 1979 with Star Trek: The Motion Pictureand the crew of the U.S.S. Ent

Section 31 tries something ambitious, but it ultimately fails because of the iconic sci-fi saga's rich history and detailed lore.