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,

The cameo marks a reunion between Curtis and Yeoh, who both won Oscars for their performances in 2022's Everything Everywhere All at Once. Star Trek: Section 31 director and executive producer Olatunde Osunsanmi tells Entertainment Weekly that Yeoh was instrumental in making the casting happen.

The writer behind the upcoming Star Trek spin-off, Star Trek Section 31, wrote nearly a dozen episodes for a proposed series that fans will never see before penning the spin-off movie, according to the director.