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 main events of Star Trek: Section 31 occur on Stardate 1292.4, which translates to April 17, 2324, on our Gregorian calendar. This places the story 40 years before the iconic Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) series, which begins in 2364.