If only the reins to Section 31 had been given to this director and this writer, it might have been a good movie

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Jonathan Frakes directed Star Trek: First Contact (he was nominated for a Saturn Award for this one) as well as Star Trek: Insurrection. He's since gone on to direct almost thirty episodes of Star Trek, including Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and there's more coming with Starfleet Academy. Prolific as a director, Frakes has stayed more behind the camera than he has in front of it, and it's paid off. He knows good Star Trek (you can't really count the bad episodes like Sub Rosa from Star Trek: the Next Generation against him), and one can't help but wonder what Section 31 would have been like had Frakes been behind the camera.

Prior to writing Section 31, Craig Sweeney had written one episode of Star Trek for Discovery, which was the series third episode in its first season. That doesn't seem like enough experience to be handed the reins of a Star Trek movie. Granted, Frakes doesn't write for Star Trek, but he has enough experience to konw whether or not a script will work and even how to make what might be considered bad episodes better.

As far as script goes, that should have gone to Terry Matalas who proved in season three of Star Trek: Picard that he knows the heart of Star Trek fans. He wrote the first and the last episode of the season, two of the best episodes of the season. And he was the showrunner for the third season as well. So his expertise is well known in Star Trek.

One can only imagine the type of movie Section 31 could have been had these two been able to work together. And with the right people in charge, a sequel movie could redeem the first movie and make fans actually excited about Section 31.