Regardless of how you ultimately feel about the tone Section 31 goes for—which definitely leans hard into trying to be cool and cynically jokey a lot of the time—and perhaps even regardless of how threadbare most of the primary cast is treated by Section 31 ‘s script,

Section 31 wants to do Suicide Squad for the Star Trek universe, but there are a few fundamental problems with that approach.

As the shadowy branch of Starfleet Intelligence gets its very own movie, we look back at Section 31's morally dubious history.