Paramount is trying to make Star Trek: Section 31 their Guardians of the Galaxy

Everywhere you look, the advertising for Star Trek: Section 31 seems to paint the film as a clone of Guardians of the Galaxy, or SyFy's sleeper sci-fi series, Killyjoys. Both the Marvel film and the SyFy show featured a group of very talented but abnormal groups. One was just a group of ragtag members of a ship who fought crime, the other was a trio of bounty hunters.

Both relied on a level of snark and dry wit that most fans would see now as the "MCUification" of humor. Gone are jokes, now we're just innudated with wannabe Tony Stark types. The vibes that are coming off of Sar Trek: Section 31 seems to paint a similiar situation. We're looking at a movie that may very well trying to be it's own Guardians of the Galaxy.

Filled with humorous characters and snarky rejoinders. It may not be, but the previews certainly are selling it as Star Trek's version of an MCU film. And if that's the case, then how utterly tonedeaf are the people running Star Trek?

Firstly, as we saw with Lower Decks, copying something popular doesn't your perception but instead hinders it. People see you as copycats and not innovators. Trying to ride the coattails of what worked before instead of forging your own path forward.

Secondly, fans know that Section 31 is one of the most controversial aspects of the franchise, a bitter and unrelenting rebuttal to Gene Roddbenerry's views on what society could look like. A silent declaration that Roddenberry's vision was a lie. An impossible dream. Due to the torturing ways of Starfleet's Section 31, fans have come to reject the use of the division. Not wanting to glamorize further or justify such a disrespectful and dangerous unit.

Fans were mad as heck when a film based around the tortuous group was announced. They're even more mad that the new film is being marketed as a group of "misfits' who are trying to save the universe. They're an utterly cold, emotionless lot, who don't care about anything other than the mission. To paint them as the villains is the only proper way to utlize the group.

Yet, the origin story of the group's development seems to suggest we'll be getting a whacky romp across the stars. And who wants that?