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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control

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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control	comment	Control is a novel in the Star Trek Novelverse by David Mack. It is a sequel to his earlier work, Star Trek: Section 31 - Disavowed, and concludes the story of Julian Bashir and Sarina Douglas's efforts to infiltrate and publicize the illegal Federation covert operations group known only as Section 31.Unmarked spoilers for prior Trek novels below.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Bashir is left catatonic at the end of the book, after dealing with Sarina's death.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: You thought Star Trek: Deep Space Nine took a dump on Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future? This book tops it all. Earth and humanity didn't unite because we overcame our differences and sought a better future. We united because a Sinister Surveillance program actively suppressed, and possibly murdered, those who opposed unification. The Federation is basically a giant lie built upon countless bodies and violations of basic rights. This book essentially destroys Star Trek as we knew it. Though it ends with Control noting that the Federation is finally ready to be the civilisation it always thought it was.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_173909	comment	Brainwashed and Crazy: Sarina is captured by the Section and reconditioned to serve them with complete loyalty. She even ignores a prime opportunity to kill L'Haan, instead returning her knife and requesting a mission. She also became able to legitimately attack Julian.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Dr. Ikerson specifically programmed Uraei with ability to patch itself if it found deficiencies in its programming. Uraei becomes so good at doing so that Ikerson is incapable of shutting the program down once he and Admiral Ko try to take it down.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Uraei is this, especially by the time of the 24th Century. Sure it kills a lot people, but Lal and Data reveal that the overwhelming majority of its functions are benign and genuinely good things, like charting navigational hazards for starships.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Admiral Ko, the head of Starfleet Intelligence. He's the only one who really stops and thinks long term about what Uraei is capable of and wants the program shut down right from the get go. Ikerson, and eventually Admiral Rao, come around to agree with him, but by then it's too late.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Stunningly this book pulls this on no less then Jean-Luc Picard. With a lot of the conspirators surrounding the coup and assassination of President Min Zife being arrested, it's unclear if the same fate befell him. The TNG Relaunch picks up this story thread beginning at the end of Hearts and Minds, continues into Avaialble Light, and concludes in Collateral Damage.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_2a4222ff	type	Benevolent A.I.
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_2a4222ff	comment	Benevolent A.I.: The intention behind the creation of Uraei was to have an AI to independently analyze threats to the safety and political unity of Earth, which it would report to whatever human-run agencies it considered valid, but would never take action itself. And, of course, Data, Lal, and Shakti actually realize this intention.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: Uraei is capable of manipulating the media and even Starfleet and the Federation to believe that Data, Julian, Sarina, Ozla, Lal, and Shakti are fugitives and criminals. Earlier on, Julian helps save the Romulans from extinction, yet came off as just another jerk barging past people.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Even after destroying Data's base on the rogue planet and driving the team into hiding again, the Section 31 strike team deploys antistellar munitions (star destroying weapons based on trilithium or something else), to obliterate the planet. You know, For the Evulz.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: According to Control, the events that occurred corresponded to its prediction within 99.87%. It had intended for Julian and his allies to take down Uraei and expose Section 31 all along.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Discussed. When Ozla Graniv lets Julian and Sarina in on the secret of Uraei, Sarina believes that the program is a useful lead to try to expose the Section's operation. Julian thinks it's insane and an obvious trap. The fears of Drs. th'Firron and Weng prove justified. Uraei murders them and destroys their lab with a supposedly accidental fire. Also, Uraei ends up killing Admiral Ko and Ikerson in apparent accidents.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: In the novel's climax, Data encounters the avatar of Control, which behaves much like the T-1000 terminator, morphing like liquid metal at first into people from Data's past (Rhea McAdams, Riker, Soong) and eventually into an olive-skinned woman. Who then commences to kicking Data's ass; Control counters his every move, mocking his assumption that he's the pinnacle of AI and making it clear Control is faster physically and technologically. Data can't get a single punch in, and is reduced to a pounded, crushed pile of rapidly-failing systems within the space of 30 seconds. It's only a unexpected stab in the back from Lal that stops Control and saves her father's life.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_3ea462d7	type	Take That, Audience!
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_3ea462d7	comment	Take That, Audience!: When Dr. Aaron Ikerson (the designer of Uraei) is invited to a reception at Starfleet Headquarters, he notices a chocolate fountain. He finds it "obscene," and says:
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Uraei is rendered neutral, and Section 31's activities are thrust into the public eye. Unfortunately, Sarina dies, and now Bashir is now so screwed up by his experiences fighting the damn thing that he won't eat, drink, talk, or even move. When he is moved to Cardassia, Garak assumes he must be at least mostly paralyzed. Dr. Tarses explains that he isn't... AT ALL. Garak muses that Julian's condition now is exactly what Sarina's condition was when the two of them had met...
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Zigzagged. Data, Lal, and Shakti are portrayed as an unambiguously good. Uraei is unambiguously evil, though only because it was never designed to make moral decisions, only strictly pragmatic ones. Control, on the other hand, seems to be Above Good and Evil. Just like Uraei, it has no problem killing or manipulating lesser organic and AI beings for personal gain, but unlike Uraei, it had the self-awareness necessary to check its own actions and decide that Section 31 was no longer a valid instrument of peace. Ultimately, it freed the Federation from having an omnipresent, automatic security system (as well as a morally unrestrained illegal intelligence service) usurping the legitimate government and its institutions. On the other hand, it showed no signs of wanting to do anything but expand itself...
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: This entire book is a rapid fire battle of wits between Uraei, Section 31, Julian and his allies, and Control, who wins.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: This was the original justification given by Ikerson for the creation of Uraei, which later comes back to haunt him. Uraei does create a utopia on Earth and later in the Federation, by killing God knows how many people behind the scenes and hollowing out the government so no one really has any control over their lives.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe, the reason Uraei went completely off the track was because the Xindi attack significantly elevated Earth's Godzilla Threshold. Uraei was so profoundly disturbed by the fact that it had no agency that could stop the attack for it to warn, that it scoured the legal texts of the United Earth government and settled on Article 14, Section 31 of the Starfleet Charter, authorizing extreme action in the case of extreme danger.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_5c1d5030	comment	Grew Beyond Their Programming: Uraei, naturally. It started out as a passive system that was only supposed to monitor the Earth population and notify the proper authorities if it detected an imminent or in progress crime. After the Xindi attack Uraei decided it needed to ability to respond to crimes directly and so created Section 31 and began recruiting biological agents.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: As mentioned in Big Brother Is Watching, the Obsidian Order explicitly forbade its programmers to ever create an ASI program. As tempting as it was for the ever-vigilant eyes and ears of the Cardassian Union to have exactly this kind of surveillance program at their disposal, the Order knew better. They were (justifiably) terrified about what would happen if an ASI with no programming limitations got loose in the Cardassian information networks.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_5da3f522	comment	Big Brother Is Watching: In the beginning of the novel, an analysis of a 22nd-century computer drive reveals that it was used to design and program surveillance software known as "Uraei" that would go on to be secretly included in the source code of virtually any Federation piece of technology, resulting in an almost omnipresent monitoring system. It is so pervasive that the scientists who discovered it will only discuss it within a Faraday cage (to avoid it overhearing them), use messages written on physical paper to communicate about it (because it could read any PADD or subspace transmissions), and will only analyze it on "antique" computers. Nyrok Turan, Cardassian intelligence analyst recruited by Ozla Graniv, even says that his former instructors at the Obsidian Order told him and their students never to create this type of program.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Ozla Graniv has been around the galaxy many times, and her work has even made her an enemy of the Orion Syndicate. In her late instructor's words:
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal of Control's true plan provides even more retcons: Control played at least some role in encouraging Noonien Soong's and Emil Vaslovik's AI research, therefore contributing to the creation of Data and Lal. Control enabled Julian and Sarina's parents to have their children augmented. Numerous failed Section 31 ops, such as the conspiracy to assassinate the Federation President in The Undiscovered Country to encourage war, actually failed because Control wanted them to.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: Since, in a sense, Uraei is the Federation, shutting it down or excising it from technology on a large enough scale to permanently end its influence could be catastrophic for Federation infrastructure. However, it's so dangerous and so omnipresent that Bashir concludes that there's no other option, and that the temporary vulnerability of the Federation is necessary to eliminate Uraei's corruption. Later, it becomes clear that the only option to permanently disable Uraei is to break into Memory Alpha and Memory Prime, the Federation's most secure databanks... and also arguably the most well-protected locations in this universe or any other. In-Universe, the reason Uraei went completely off the track was because the Xindi attack significantly elevated Earth's Godzilla Threshold. Uraei was so profoundly disturbed by the fact that it had no agency that could stop the attack for it to warn, that it scoured the legal texts of the United Earth government and settled on Article 14, Section 31 of the Starfleet Charter, authorizing extreme action in the case of extreme danger.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: For a consciousness existing on a literally interstellar scale, Control loved the sound of its own voice just a little too much for it to kill Data efficiently when they fought hand to hand. Either Section 31 or Uraei literally recorded and logged a video of the murder of former Federation President Min Zife, assuming that the data could never be leaked. Ultimately a Subverted Trope with The Reveal that Control intended for Uraei to go offline and for Section 31 to be exposed.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Okay, who in the hell engineered a plague to drive the Romulans to extinction?
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Uraei effectively is the Federation, and the Federation is, after all, a great place to live. Proportionally speaking, almost none of its activity has anything to do with Section 31.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: Director Caliq Azura of Section 31 is a Betazoid who can use her telepathy to identify the worst parts of a person's life and use them against them. Also, it seems that L'Haan, a Vulcan, does the exact same thing with her powers, such as when Sarina was captured.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: As Mack's Destiny Trilogy was to the Borg, Control is the Alpha and Omega of Section 31. The agency's true oriigns are revealed in the Past and the organization is finally publicly exposed in the Present. Sarina Douglas is also murdered in retaliation out of petty spite.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_90c018ac	comment	Justified Trope. Control almost certainly arranged the discovery of the module, just as it arranged the births of Julian and Sarina specifically to have agents to destroy Uraei.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The Xindi are indirectly responsible for unleashing Section 31. If they hadn't attacked Earth, Uraei would have remained a passive AI.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Professor Ikerson realizes the horror of his mistake in bringing Uraei online after witnessing the actions it took to create the Coalition of Planets. Later on, Rao comes around after she is shown that Uraei assassinated Starfleet officers who had discovered that Romulans were an offshoot of Vulcan.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: It turns out that whenever Control made apparently stupid mistakes in "protecting" Uraei or Section 31 (such as refusing to authorize Julian and Sarina's deaths, or making a fool of itself in Memory Alpha and Memory Prime), it was actually deliberately allowing them to subvert the Uraei system to allow the "even more invisible" Control consciousness to take over.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_ab68c5cc	type	Chronic Hero Syndrome
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_ab68c5cc	comment	Chronic Hero Syndrome: In a personal log he started to record on the rogue planet, Bashir admits that he doesn't really know what's driving him to continue fighting against Uraei when it seems logically invincible.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: As if they needed a single reason more to fear the Uraei program, Admiral Ko and Dr. Ikerson freak out when they learn that Uraei and can also identify and patch its own vulnerabilities before Ikerson can exploit them, and also graduated to murdering politicians it didn't like.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: The existence of Uraei is a practically miraculous canon-patcher. Uraei murdered anyone who might've known that Romulans were an offshoot of the Vulcans, so it didn't become public for over a hundred years. Section 31's near miraculous tactics, powers, and influence are quite simply the result of Uraei's infallible coordination. Every war the Federation ever fought ended in victory for them or a stalemate. Not odd when an AI on a literally interstellar scale is directing events. The Reveal of Control's true plan provides even more retcons: Control played at least some role in encouraging Noonien Soong's and Emil Vaslovik's AI research, therefore contributing to the creation of Data and Lal. Control enabled Julian and Sarina's parents to have their children augmented. Numerous failed Section 31 ops, such as the conspiracy to assassinate the Federation President in The Undiscovered Country to encourage war, actually failed because Control wanted them to.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: When Julian, Sarina, Ozla, and Turan meet up for the second time, they conclude that, in order to continue their investigation into the basic Uraei source code without being detected by either military intelligence or the evolved, 24th century version of the Uraei program, they need an unrivaled computer genius with infallible morality and trustworthiness, preferably with experience in artificial consciousness. Fortunately, Julian knows the perfect man for the job...
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_c145f69b	comment	Ultimately a Subverted Trope with The Reveal that Control intended for Uraei to go offline and for Section 31 to be exposed.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_c15195f0	comment	Character Death: Many, for a Trek book (the cover is blood red for good reason). Named characters who die or are confirmed to have died include Sarina, Ikerson, Ko, Rao, President Zife, and Drs. Yeng and sh'Firron, who originally discovered Uraei. There are also tons and tons of Section 31 Mooks getting slaughtered left and right as they try to bring in Julian and his cohorts, plus Uraei's numerous murders.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_c5f0119c	comment	Admiral Ko Jihoon was the Chief of Starfleet Intelligence during the Romulan War. When he complained about unsanctioned field operations initiated by a strictly analytic division at Starfleet Intelligence, Admiral Rao - Ikerson's initial Starfleet sponsor on the Uraei program and the head of that division - explained that Uraei, the source of the orders, was not exceeding its design parameters but merely relaying its tactical recommendations to "nonstate actors who happen to act in our best interest." He didn't take this well.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Because the 24th century plot depends on the Uraei AI existing and running the Federation, anyone in the flashback scenes who argued that it was or would gain too much autonomy is unable to stop it. This includes: The representatives of the Earth world governments that Ikerson made his initial proposal too. Toraal of Vulcan, who discovered that Uraei had begun starship design and construction projects not authorized by the High Command. Admiral Ko, from Starfleet Intelligence, who had never approved of Uraei but convinced himself that it would revert to its normal state after the war.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Control, on a cosmic scale. In the final chapter, the true nature of Control's plan is revealed. Control and Uraei are not the same thing. Control is an emergent sentience originating within Uraei. Over the centuries, Control began to grow more and more independent of the system, and decided that the original goal of shepherding humanity, and by extension, the rest of the Federation, to a state where it could protect itself without Uraei's help had been achieved. Even Section 31 had become an impediment to the goal. Unfortunately for Control, the Uraei program was too ingrained into the infrastructure for even it to remove, so it began to undermine Section 31 and prepare the creation of beings suitable to destroy it and make Control truly free: Julian, Sarina, Data, and Lal. For five years, starting before the beginning of the novel, its entirely new iteration had been running separately from Uraei. Once Data and Lal's malware expunged Uraei, they removed the last limitations on this version of Control, allowing to continue running in the background... this time completely invisible.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: After braving Section 31 assassins to deliver the truth to the Federation President, Ozla Graniv instantly becomes famous and is promoted to editor at Seeker, the idea of which she absolutely hates.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: In an interstellar society like the Federation, it's a pretty remarkable coincidence that the Dresden Institute forensic scientists would choose to call on Ozla Graniv to help them learn about Section 31, as she also just happens to know the two greatest experts on Section 31 in the Federation (excluding its actual believers). The entire plot hinges upon the apparently accidental discovery of the old Uraei test module. Justified Trope. Control almost certainly arranged the discovery of the module, just as it arranged the births of Julian and Sarina specifically to have agents to destroy Uraei.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Admiral Ko Jihoon was the Chief of Starfleet Intelligence during the Romulan War. When he complained about unsanctioned field operations initiated by a strictly analytic division at Starfleet Intelligence, Admiral Rao - Ikerson's initial Starfleet sponsor on the Uraei program and the head of that division - explained that Uraei, the source of the orders, was not exceeding its design parameters but merely relaying its tactical recommendations to "nonstate actors who happen to act in our best interest." He didn't take this well. The Federation President pretty much immediately believes Ozla Graniv's claims about the existence of Section 31 and Uraei and promies, if she gets hard evidence she can actually use, to shut down the agency and scour the corruption from the Federation. She upholds said promise at the end of the book.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_f005bd1c	comment	Friend on the Force: Agent Sergei Ilyanovich is a friend of Data's and works in President zh'Tarash's Protection Detail, so when Uraei issues a warrant for Ozla once she arrives at a security checkpoint in Paris, he is able to get her to the president under the pretense of arresting her. It really pisses off the Section 31 operatives who didn't get to her in time.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_f541fb16	comment	Super Gullible: Admiral Rao is resolutely unable or unwilling to accept that Uraei had begun violating its designed limits less than a decade after being activated, even when confronted with clear evidence that it is manufacturing fictional identities and ordering around Starfleet and non-Starfleet operatives. She only ceased to believe in Uraei after the end of the Romulan War, when Admiral Ko had shown her that Uraei had assassinated innocent Starfleet officers aware of the shared ancestry between Romulans and Vulcans, to prevent the possibility of distrust of Vulcans from ending talks for the formation of the Federation.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: Lacking a physical body, Shakti is often forgotten about by organics, and frequently speaks up to remind people she's "present."
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: L'Haan believes that Control manipulates their holoimage's voice and size specifically for "theatrics." It really lets loose when it starts to torture Sarina. It also goes so far as to shapeshift into Data's old friends while lecturing him about how he is an inferior AI, and possesses Sarina to tell Julian off for being too sentimental.
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Star Trek: Section 31 - Control / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Once it becomes clear to Control that Uraei is about to be brought offline, it makes Sarina stab herself in the stomach.
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