For Star Trek fans who watch until the end of the Star Trek: Section 31 film, there’s a bit of a surprise cameo. When Empress Phillipa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) and her team of secret operatives complete their first mission and save the Federation, they head back to Georgiou’s illicit space casino. There, they receive a transmission from their contact at Section 31, giving them their next orders. And the representative from Section 31’s top brass, known as “Control,” is none other than Michelle Yeoh’s Everything, Everywhere, All At Once co-star (and fellow Oscar winner) Jamie Lee Curtis.
Curtis’ cameo is brief, but she appears to be a purple-skinned alien with cybernetic implants on her face. Now, this is way too early in the timeline for her to be a liberated Borg drone. So we’re not sure what all those metal patches are supposed to mean. Maybe they are just there to look cool? The only purple-skinned humanoid aliens in Trek canon we’re familiar with are the Violaceans. But they appeared only as background aliens a handful of times. Control then makes a pretty deep-cut reference, when she sends Georgiou’s operatives on a mission to Turkana IV. Star Trek: The Next Generation fans know this as the colony world Lt. Tasha Yar and her sister hailed from.
Will we ever see Jamie Lee Curtis’ character Control in a Star Trek project again? That depends on if there’s ever another adventure with this Section 31 cast or not. We wouldn’t exactly bet the house on it, but anything is possible in the world of Star Trek. Most likely, this was just a favor to her friend and co-star Michelle Yeoh. No matter what one thought of Section 31, we think fans would be into more Jamie Lee Curtis in Trek. Given that The Shape’s iconic mask from Halloween is based on a William Shatner as Captain Kirk mask, Curtis’ appearance means that both Laurie Strode and Michael Myers have Star Trek connections now. We have to admit, that’s kind of cool.