The bickering between Spock (Zachary Quinto) and Bones (Karl Urban) delivers plenty laughs, and Kirk (Chris Pine) still manages to think his way out of seemingly impossible scenarios. Well that’s just typical!
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The 38-year-old American star and 34-year-old Algerian actress attended the San Diego Comic-Con premiere of Star Trek Beyond at the Embarcadero Marina Park South.
It’s day 966 in space – only the third year in a five-year mission – and Captain James Kirk (Pine) is getting rather exhausted of the “episodic” nature of things.
Abrams has already announced there will be a fourth Star Trek movie, so maybe Kirk will be resurrected in the future. Before Star Trek we were talking Star Wars. Relationships have ended; Spock and Uhura (Zoe Saldana) have parted ways due to Spock’s feelings of obligation to his endangered Vulcan race. Lin even uses his Fast and Furious shooting style to make the Enterprise look cooler and faster this time around as it zooms through the darkness of space. Aided by the mysterious Jaylah (Sofia Boutella, the blade-legged assassin in “Kingsman: The Secret Service”), Kirk and company must find a way to rescue his crew and stop whatever Krall has planned. To add to the excitement for Star Trek devotees, Netflix has signed on for global rights to stream the upcoming small-screen revamp of the TV franchise in 188 countries.
Knowing he’s standing in the huge shadow of the director he replaced and the franchise he left Star Trek to be a part of, Lin turns Star Trek Beyond into a huge Sci-Fi action spectacle.
If the last film in this series proved anything, it’s that there’s only place for one tall, white, unemotional character in a Star Trek film-and that person has pointy ears.
Obviously it’s Star Trek, almost anything is possible.
Meanwhile, the rest of the crew – including Sulu (John Cho) and Chekov (Anton Yelchin) – have their own problems and ways of coping, except for engineer Scotty (Simon Pegg) who seems perfectly happy.
Star Trek Beyond takes some risks by destroying the beloved Enterprise, (don’t worry, that’s not much of a spoiler, and it’s not the first time it’s happened), and separating the crew through the majority of the film.
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