“Star Trek Beyond” also stars Simon Pegg – who acted as co-writer – Idris Elba, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and Karl Urban and is out in cinemas on July 22. Again. Their brief bonding moment (aww) is interrupted when Spock is transported to gawd-knows-where, leaving our good Doctor alone.
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Captain Kirk and his valiant Enterprise crew members travel far, far away-maybe farther than ever before-in Star Trek Beyond.
Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) notes in his captain’s log at the beginning of the movie that, almost three years into the mission, it’s started to feel a bit “episodic”, and Beyond gives a sense of the Enterprise crew having been through numerous more mundane adventures that might have shown up in TV episodes. Though Kirk isn’t at the forefront as much as he is in the previous films, Pine stands out as a greatly matured version of the character we met in the 2009 movie.
On the other hand, the untimely death of Anton Yelchin, who plays Mr. Chekov, does evince a note of sadness that pulls you out of the story, although there’s not really anything that could have been done about that.
But reflection is fleeting when an attack by a locustlike swarm of enemy ships on the Enterprise shreds it like so much grated Swiss cheese.
Now, in the franchise’s 50th anniversary year, there’s a new film now playing in theaters that serves as an incredibly timely tribute to Roddenberry’s work and his message, “Star Trek Beyond”. And you’re in luck because the series has already announced a fourth rebooted Trek movie.
Simon Pegg is also expected to return to the film as Scotty, although he will not be writing the script for the new installment.
Joining the cast for Beyond is actress Sofia Boutella as Jaylah, a new alien ally to the Enterprise crew.
Star Trek Beyond is promising to be the biggest Star Trek film yet and it will be exciting to see in which direction Lin will take the story and the characters. “Anton Yelchin should be here”, he said, according to E! Working from a screenplay by Pegg and Doug Jung, director Justin Lin (“Fast & Furious 6”) seems most concerned with keeping things moving, and on that score he succeeds. He puts his best efforts in the film and did his best to make the every character in real.
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He does not want to call himself a Trekkie when he felt that he has not earned his stripes for it but he is a devoted Star Trek fan through and through.
