Star Trek: Section 31 is not a movie people like. We won't know anytime soon, if ever, how it performed with regards to the total amount of people who watched, or how it did with total hours streamed but we do know fans haven't been happy with it. Currently, with over 1,000 reviews, the fans of Rotten Tomatoes have given it a 17%. While bad films are pretty obvious, sometimes critics can't help themselves and buck against trends and narratives.
Even in this case, the critics can't deny how bad the film is. Usually, Nu Trek shows do well with the critics, but this film was destroyed by the Rotten Tomatoes critics. With nearly 40 reviews in, the film has a critics score of 22%. Made even worse, IMDB's scores have been updated and as predicted, the film is sitting at just 4.0 out of 10.
This film was a disaster and was one we all saw coming. The trailer accurately showed us the film and the concerns we had for it were incredibly justified. It was in fact a wannabe Guardians of the Galaxy, an alarming trend considering the current era of Star Trek. Not only has Alex Kurtzman allowed showrunners and directors the ability to make their own show, cosplaying as a Star Trek show, aka a "TINO" (Trek in name only) but each time they've gone that route, they fail to some degree.
Either like Lower Decks where they fail to capture a larger audience or they fail like Picard, where the show is just flat-out bad, and fans ridicule it for its cheap attempts to get viewers thanks to nostaliga.
Yet, Section 31 fails across the board and in every way. So much so that, unlike the shows, its failure may harm the future of Star Trek films. The film was meant to launch a new era of made-for-streaming films focusing on Star Trek. Films that could generate a few million views, but maybe not hundreds of millions of dollars in box office coin.
A nice middle ground. A better version of those made-for-TV-movies we used to get.
Yet, with how poorly it was received across the board, it's hard to imagine that Paramount will want to invest that much money into a new project again. Maybe things will be different once Skydance formally takes over Paramount this year, but it's likely that few people are going to sound the drums for a second made-for-streaming film anytime soon.