• Damage@feddit.it
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    23 hours ago

    You could have done something else.
    The cool thing about Section 31 was that it was ambiguous, did it really exist? Was it just one crazy guy? Then Discovery blew that up, and we could have just tried to forget it, but no, let’s make a movie about it.

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      17 hours ago

      it was ambiguous, did it really exist? Was it just one crazy guy?

      This was never credible, and was never how it was presented in DS9.

      Even in “Inquisition”, Sloan had two other guys standing next to him, and an entire starship at his disposal. Starfleet Command covered for him at the end - something that was noted by the DS9 senior staff.

      In subsequent episodes, Admiral Ross acknowledged their existence, and Bashir worked out what he believed to be the bare minimum number of operatives required to create the morphogenic virus (73).

      Later, we saw them working for the United Earth Starfleet in the ENT era.

      The only suggestion that it’s just “once crazy guy” comes from Koval, who then helps Sloan fake his death and is revealed to be a S31 asset in the very next scene.

      So no, that’s not really something Discovery changed. People have had to wilfully ignore the DS9 episodes to buy into that theory.

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        16 hours ago

        In ENT it’s very heavy handed that Malcom uses to work for section 31, and they really want him back. Big part of a story arc in the last season.

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        14 hours ago

        they also play a big role in Into Darkness (not that anyone cares about that one…)