The long-awaited first trailer for the Michelle Yeoh-starring film, Star Trek: Section 31, is finally here to reenergise the franchise. Paramount+ revealed a two-minute first look at the Star Trek: Discovery spinoff movie, which has Everything Everywhere All at Once Oscar-winning actress Yeoh reprising her role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou.

Section 31 sees Georgiou joining a secret “black ops” division of Starfleet, which will see her “tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets,” and “facing the sins of her past”. The trailer, which you can watch below, has a much more rebellious, energetic vibe than recent Star Trek fare.

The television film is directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi from a script by Craig Sweeny. Omari Hardwick, Kacey Rohl, Sam Richardson, Sven Ruygrok, Robert Kazinsky, Humberly Gonzalez, and James Hiroyuki Liao also star.

The road to Section 31 was not a direct one: it was originally conceived as a spinoff series in 2017 during the filming of the first season of Discovery, before entering talks in 2018. The project seemed to pick up steam in 2019 when it went into active development with Yeoh attached to star, before growing stagnant in subsequent years. It wasn’t until last year that the project was ordered as a film.

Star Trek: Section 31 will premiere on Paramount+ in early 2025.