Part 31 Take Place On The Franchise Timeline?

Potential spoilers observe.

The timeline of the brand new TV film “Star Trek: Part 31” is somewhat troublesome to put within the chronology of “Star Trek,” because it entails interdimensional shifts and a passage by the dwelling time portal the Guardian of Perpetually. There’s, nevertheless, one widespread character between “Part 31” and the extant “Star Trek” universe at giant that may give us an important clue. The one character in query, so far as we all know, has no entry to time journey tools and would not usually go skipping between parallel universe, so we are able to fortunately use her as a bedrock. 

To supply a short recap earlier than we get into the nitty-gritty: Part 31 is the black-ops arm of Starfleet, a company first launched within the “Star Trek: Deep House 9” episode “Inquisition” (April 6, 1998). Whereas Starfleet was usually dedicated to missions of exploration, analysis, and diplomacy, there was a super-secret arm of the group that labored undercover to deal with less-than-savory missions that concerned breaking legal guidelines or committing acts of violence. Trekkies discovered that Part 31 was a long-standing group in “Affliction” (February 18, 2005), an episode of “Star Trek: Enterprise.” That present was set a century earlier than the unique “Star Trek,” so Part 31 had been a part of Starfleet’s DNA for some time. 

Part 31 additionally performed a big position in “Star Trek: Discovery,” and it will ultimately recruit Empress Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh), a murdering cannibal despot from a parallel universe, to be one in all its particular brokers. She was final seen within the two-part episode “Terra Firma” (December 10 and 17, 2022) exiting the thirty second century and being transported to a time when the evil Mirror Universe and the standard Trek Universe have been extra carefully aligned. 

“Part 31” catches up with what the Empress has been going since then, and explains the place she ended up when she traveled by time.

Because of a gap exposition dump, we all know that Georgiou stepped by the Guardian of Perpetually and landed within the yr 2257 and joined Part 31. 2257, for Trek newbies, is identical yr because the second season of “Star Trek: Discovery,” and about eight years earlier than the occasions of the unique “Star Trek.” The narration goes on to say, nevertheless, that Starfleet misplaced monitor of Georgiou after “a couple of years,” and solely discovered her after she had already adopted an alias and opened her personal nightclub-like area station exterior of Federation area.

The “a couple of years” a part of “Star Trek: Part 31” is somewhat maddening, because it leaves the film’s timeframe a bit imprecise. Georgiou, in fact, would not look an excessive amount of older than the final time we noticed her, so these “few years” could not have been as many as 20. 

After all, if Georgiou went again in time to 2257, then there was a short interval whereby there have been two of them within the “Star Trek” universe. The unique Georgiou would not have been whisked ahead to the thirty second century till the very finish of the second season of “Discovery.” 

In “Part 31,” Starfleet recruits Georgiou as soon as once more, this time to trace down a small, moveable doomsday system, concerning the dimension of a Nintendo GameCube. She is teamed up with an enthralling Chameloid (Sam Richardson), a comely Deltan (Humberly Gonzalez), a microscopic alien piloting a man-sized swimsuit (Robert Kazinsky), a super-cyborg (Sven Ruygrok), a stoic FBI-like dude (Omari Hardwick), and a Starfleet overseer named Rachel Garrett (Kacey Rohl). Rachel Garrett is there to verify Empress Georgiou, a mass assassin, would not commit any further murders. 

The title, in fact, will trigger Trekkies’ ears to perk up. 

Rachel Garrett was, in fact, the captain of the usS. Enterprise-C, because it appeared within the “Star Trek: The Subsequent Era” episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise” (February 19, 1990). Within the episode, Garrett was performed by actress Tricia O’Neill. The plot of “Yesterday’s Enterprise” concerned Garrett’s ship flying by a time portal, arriving 22 years sooner or later. The Enterprise-C departed the yr 2344. Judging by O’Neill’s age on the time of “Yesterday’s Enterprise,” and extrapolating from some obscure expanded universe lore (novels and the like), we are able to come to the conclusion that Garrett was born within the yr 2293. 

Garrett, in “Part 31” remains to be a mere lieutenant, and seems to be in her early 30s. Actress Kacey Rohl is, as of this writing, 33. In order that tracks. If that is correct, then “Part 31” takes place in 2326. This additionally falls consistent with the above-mentioned expanded universe lore, which states that Garrett would not develop into a Commander and first officer till 2328. She could be a lieutenant in 2326. 

Recall, although, that Georgiou has been a part of Part 31 since 2257. So evidently the timeline begins to get somewhat screwy. 2257 was 36 years earlier than Rachel Garrett was born. How may she be in her early 30s simply “a couple of years later”? 

After all, if we’re to make use of our imaginations, we are able to account for the 65 to 70 years that appear to be lacking. Both Garrett did certainly have entry to a time journey widget — which she may conceivably have, working with a super-secret group like Part 31 — or, extra seemingly, Empress Georgiou could be very previous and merely extremely well-maintained. These “few years” may have been six full a long time, for all we all know, and Empress Georgiou might be about 135 years previous. That is the longer term, in spite of everything, and medication is super-advanced. Additionally, folks have their our bodies augmented by mechanical units on a regular basis. To not point out, the way forward for beauty surgical procedure might be cutting-edge.