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Simon Pegg, in his seminal geek sitcom "Spaced", said "it's a fact, sure as day follows night, sure as eggs is eggs, sure as every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is..." Well, not good.
Lucky him, he got to share screenplay duties with Doug Jung on "Star Trek Beyond", the third movie in the rebooted series and the 13th installment in the Star Trek franchise overall. On Star Trek's 50th anniversary. But Pegg is a nerd's nerd, and he's broken his own rule with "Beyond". It's by no means perfect, but it brought back the fun, the freshness and the Trekness so sorely lacking in 2013's "Star Trek Into Darkness".
On this particular voyage of the starship Enterprise, Kirk, Spock and company are three years into their five-year mission to explore deep space, and they're chugging along with a little listlessness and reluctance. Before long, the crew find themselves marooned on a hostile alien planet with no way to call for help and staring down the alien overlord Krall.
The best thing about scattering the crew across an alien world is exploring relationships with characters who often don't get to share the screen. Chris Pine's Kirk and Zachary Quinto's Spock only share a few pivotal scenes, and it's good to see their lacking chemistry taking a back seat.
In its place, scribes Pegg and Jung get to show off how well they understand the crew of the Enterprise. From McCoy and Spock's buddy cop moments on a hostile alien planet to Kirk and Scotty on rescue mission duties, those relationships are where the movie really comes alive.
Captain Kirk and the mysterious Jaylah boldly go beyond in our exclusive art by comic artist Des Taylor.
Des TaylorDirector Justin Lin, of Fast and Furious fame, is at the helm this time, and his influence is immediately obvious. The action sequences are packed in, and they're without exception brilliantly conceived, playing with motorcycles and gravity manipulation to name a few things.
A few of the fights staged on the ship interiors were cluttered and confusingly shot, but all's forgiven once you see the ships in action from the outside. The swarms of enemy ships dancing around the Enterprise look simply spectacular.
Idris Elba's menacing Krall serves as an excellent foil to Kirk, as the captain of the Enterprise struggles with his dedication to his crew and mission. Sadly, Krall needed more screen time than he got, and the movie fumbled with a rushed explanation of his motives and origin.
That's par for the course though, with a couple of side characters who did things that would have made infinitely more sense if we were given time to lea about them. Thankfully, the movie doesn't really live or die by their involvement.
It's all about the crew, and it's clear that's where the screen time went. The new generation are as close to perfectly cast as can be, and three movies in, it's clear these characters are like a second skin. There's a dragged-out, saccharine epilogue to sit through once the business of saving the day is said and done. It's a forgivable indulgence in the end, with 50 years of Trek history to celebrate and a trilogy to farewell. And the fan service is still there, from a photo of the original cast in their Federation finery to more subtle nods like a cameo appearance by Sulu's daughter Demora.
"Beyond" is a Trek movie through and through, right down to the technobabble-infused plan to deal with Krall's fleet of enemy ships. Make no mistake, that one sequence is doing to go down as one of the most divisive in Star Trek history. And it'd be completely ridiculous if it wasn't perfectly executed in the pursuit of such reckless fun.
That's the real magic of "Beyond". Lin, Jung and Pegg know that it's okay to have fun with Star Trek, and they prove that 50 years on, the crew of the Enterprise have plenty left to give.
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