"Star Trek Beyond" is the Trek movie we deserve

[the_dala]

So it's taken me several days to gather my thoughts on "Star Trek Beyond." It was an emotional experience given the loss of Leonard Nimoy and Anton Yelchin. It was also emotional because it was FUCKING AMAZING. It deliberately course-corrects almost everything wrong with STID, and on some levels it might technically be a better film that ST09 (

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[veronica_rich]

On the shirtless guy near the beginning - wasn't that Chekov? My sister commented on it, thought it was, said it looked like him. (Technically the woman there WAS in her underwear, but it was not sexy underwear, so I count that as a win.)

I'm glad I liked Jayleh before I figured out she was also Gazelle from "Kingsman." I'm also glad I sort of respected Krall as a villain before I knew who he was played by and the end of his story. So many Trek villains are blah even if good actors are playing them, it was nice to get one where I could go "OK, I can see his motivations and it's not because of wife/child fridging AGAIN." Kind of like Barbossa. (I'm sure losing a spouse and/or child is devastating, but JESUS CHRIST, it's not the only motivating factor in fiction for a man. Quit using it.)

I wonder if Jayleh might replace Chekov at conn as a regular in the next movie, or at least become an ensign on the Enterprise, say, in Engineering?

I liked that Kirk didn't always know everything and wasn't always "in charge" in every scene he was in. That kid from '09 couldn't have handled not knowing what to do right away or taking suggestions from even his officers as a first course of action. Adults KNOW they're in the dark half the time.

THE POWER OF THE BEASTIE BOYS COMPELS YOU TO BACK THE FUCK OFF.

Did you catch "Commander Paris" that Kirk was meeting with? Tom's great-grandmother maybe?

Oh, and the station commander is the same actor who was in Syfy's "Big Ass Spider," one of the few bad Syfy movies that was actually pretty good - mostly because of that dude. He's like a cross between Nick Frost and James Cordon for me. (And do you believe he's 50 years old??)

I wonder when we're going to start getting Next Gen reboot characters in the movies ........

[the_dala]

I've seen a couple people speculate that it was Chekov, and it would make sense for his character, but I thought they'd have shown his face clearly if so. Oh well, just have to see it again!

I totally didn't catch the commander's name! That's cool. I know they chose to make a bunch of "Enterprise" references - there's a good article on Buzzfeed I need to link on tumblr.

That would be Greg Grunberg, who is in a high percentage of nerdy vehicles and is a buddy of Abrams (he was in TFA, like Pegg - he played Snap Wexley, the recon pilot with the beard).

It was just so clear that a true fan wrote this movie :)