{"id":99022,"date":"2026-03-08T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99022"},"modified":"2026-03-07T10:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:06:08","slug":"star-trek-section-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/03\/08\/star-trek-section-31\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Star Trek<\/em> &#8211; Section 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O5IZ7I_uFGU?si=eu-CXWNQuAmLKFDE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 7 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em> introduced a dark undertone to the optimistic vision of the Federation with Section 31, a secretive organization doing dirty deeds behind the scenes. For some its a much-needed dose of <em>Realpolitik<\/em> to Trek, for others its a cynical ploy that has no place in Roddenberry&#8217;s vision. Either way, Section 31 is one of the most interesting pieces of <em>Star Trek<\/em> lore. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n02:20 Backstories<br \/>\n04:09 <em>DS9<\/em><br \/>\n06:30 Existential Threats<br \/>\n08:08 In The Pale Moonlight<br \/>\n10:43 Limits of Idealism<br \/>\n12:54 <em>Enterprise<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 7 Nov 2025 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine introduced a dark undertone to the optimistic vision of the Federation with Section 31, a secretive organization doing dirty deeds behind the scenes. For some its a much-needed dose of Realpolitik to Trek, for others its a cynical ploy that has no place in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[476,1593,85,223],"class_list":["post-99022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-espionage","tag-feralhistorian","tag-sf","tag-startrek"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pL8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99023,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99022\/revisions\/99023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}