Far off locations, cool technology, alien bad guys who are not one-dimensional, character building interactions with the crew in good times and bad, and enough name checks and in-references to make the die-hard fan want to go back and see it again to find more.Īnd yet, Beyond comes across as the kind of movie you can take your non- Trek friends to. Those worries, it turns out, were completely unfounded, because the strength (and perhaps weakness) of Star Trek Beyond is that it is, at its core, a big, bold, classic episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.įor Star Trek fans this is absolutely a great thing.
Just another summer tentpole film with “Star Trek” tacked onto the title. This had fans justifiably worried that the powers that be would turn this incarnation of Trek into another shoot-em-up explosion-filled action flick. I think the studio was worried that it might have been a little bit too Star Trek-y” “They had a script for Star Trek that wasn’t really working for them. Last year, Simon Pegg ruffled some fan feathers when he discussed an early draft of Star Trek Beyond and what the executives at Paramount wanted out of the new movie. nothing that hasn’t been seen in trailers, clips, or revealed in interviews). Read on for our spoiler-free review, followed by a spoiler-light version (i.e. It seems that Paramount has finally done what they set out to do with the Kelvin timeline reboot: to merge the oil-and-water worlds of Star Trek and the summer blockbuster. Star Trek Beyond is a rollicking, fun adventure that stays true to the ethos of The Original Series.
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