With Michelle Yeoh, jaw-dropping visual effects, and an adventurous space voyage, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Section 31 dazzles sci-fi fans.

Science fiction enthusiasts were thrilled to be transported back to the 23rd century in the new Paramount+ movie Star Trek: Section 31, which starred Michelle Yeoh as Empress Philippa Georgiou. The terrible actions of the tyrannical emperor of the Terran Empire haunted the heroine of the first movie in the trilogy almost nine years ago. Georgiou offers to join a covert group of misfits from the Star Fleet to prevent a mysterious buyer from using the Godsend gadget. She discovers that other members are adept at betraying others.

The project's numerous visual effects highlights were directed by Star Trek: Discovery veteran Olatunde Osunsanmi and overseen by Jason Zimmerman, who has worked on every Star Trek series since Star Trek: Discovery. Any project that entails interstellar travel requires impressive ships. In the film, this also held for the Garbage Scow and the space station Baraam Lounge.

According to Zimmerman, the lead VFX supervisor and supervising producer for Section 31, they took their time texturing the Baraam Lounge. They made sure it had enough panel details and lighting to give it a grandiose feel. They gradually began packing the lounge with ships so that it always seemed to be a bustling center. Given that the Garbage Scow's form was novel, it was a spacecraft unlike any other in the Star Trek universe. To ensure the right heaviness and scale for the enormous Terran warship, they had to experiment with the lights' sizes, textures, framing, and optics.

An important part of the story is the garbage field from the Garbage Scow. Zimmerman added that the Garbage Scow featured this surrounding bubble to highlight the fact that several tractor beams were drawing into the rubbish field. Having the Garbage Scow attached to the Terran ship became a significant event for them.