Maybe my favorite storyline in Star Trek Beyond is Jaylah’s. I love that Beyond takes at least a little time to dig into character relationships through fun conversations, since many other actions films gloss over that. Bones has to take care of injured Spock, and along the way they find time to talk about Spock potentially leaving Starfleet, as well as his girlfriend issues with Uhura. While Bones is a wisecracking doctor, Spock is a cerebral officer ruled by logic. Easily the most fun scenes involve Bones and Spock, who are opposites in many ways. This splitting up of the characters makes for some great personality moments. The crew is separated, so you have Sulu and Uhura dealing with the enemy Krall, Kirk and Chekhov looking for other survivors, Scotty meeting Jaylah and helping fix up the Franklin, and Bones helping an injured Spock. Star Trek Beyond shows the crew of the Enterprise stranded on an alien planet, which is a great set-up that feels very Star Trek TV show to me. There’s destroying an enemy swarm with music, dropping the Franklin straight off a cliff (with the crew inside) to get it flying, and using hologram technology to make a dozen Kirks (on a motorcycle) flash around enemies to disorient them… to name some of the best ones. That’s because in addition to your typical space battle shootout and hand-to-hand combat sequences, you also get some surprises that involve thought as much as action. If there’s one thing Star Trek Beyond does well, it’s action scenes. In Beyond, the love of a ship - and how it can become home - is an awesome theme. I guess a lot of space opera sci-fi revolves around a ship and its crew, and Star Trek has been no exception. I loved seeing Scotty and the crew helping Jaylah get it up and running, and there’s a great scene that involves them diving the starship off a cliff in hopes of getting it up and out of atmo. It’s a crashed Starfleet ship called the Franklin, which Jaylah calls her home throughout the film - even after they fix it up and take it into battle. Sometimes you don’t appreciate what you have until it’s gone.Īfter this, the Enterprise crew comes across another alien on the run from the bad guys: Jaylah, who has been trying to fix up a starship of her own. However, the experience of losing this ship - his home for so long - seems to spark something in him. Life aboard the Enterprise has started feeling too routine for him, and he’s getting older. He has applied for a vice admiralship, which would take him planetside. Up to this point, Captain Kirk has been feeling a little tired. (And hey, doesn’t Star Trek just love to tear up the Enterprise and build a new one?) The special effects in this movie make the scene extremely memorable. As heartbreaking as it is to see such an iconic starship torn apart by enemy ships in a space battle, then crashing on a planet, literally on fire - it’s also amazing to watch. First, there’s the destruction of the Enterprise, in all its big, beautiful, movie-budget glory. In many ways, I see Star Trek Beyond as being a love story about starships. In this post, I’m going to discuss some of the things I loved (and didn’t) about this new Star Trek experience - so spoilers away! I posted a spoiler-free review of the movie here. ![]() As some of you may already know, this week I saw the movie Star Trek Beyond.
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