Ds9 Section 31

Section 31 was an organization which claimed to protect the security interests of united earth and later the united federation of planets.

Ds9 section 31. Section 31 is a series of thematically linked novels that explore the operations of the clandestine organization known as section 31 the series was published by pocket books from 2001 to 2017 and initially spanned four star trek television series. It was already bad in ds9 and how they handled and wrote that organization got continuous worse until it reached by far its. The original series the next generation deep space nine and voyager.

It is latin for in times of war the law falls. Ds9 section 31 novel. The very idea that such an organization as section 31 could exist within starfleet would have been completely alien to gene roddenberry s original vision and as such section 31 represents one of deep space nine s most controversial ideas provoking debate among many fans of both the original series and the next generation.

William sadler as luther sloan the first section 31 agent seen on star trek. It s a clandestine organization that s supposed to protect the security of. Abyss in 2270 section 31 sent an operative moore and another man to get a security disk for archenar iv s high administrator s chamber from his son.

Section 31 in the fictional universe of star trek is an autonomous intelligence and defense organization that carries out covert operations for the united federation of planets created by ira steven behr for the star trek. Officially non existent self righteous and morally bankrupt section 31 was behr s rebuttal to the idea of a utopian future. Also section 31 is the worst invention of the star trek franchise.

In 2014 the series with disavowed by david alan mack. His masterstroke in this regard was the creation of section 31 in ds9 s sixth season. The episode s title paraphrases the words of cicero.

Deep space nine episode inquisition the organization was intended to act as a counterbalance to the utopian portrayal of the federation. Luther sloan and section 31 returned again in the final season of star trek.