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Star Trek Beyond

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After stopping off at Starbase Yorktown, a remote outpost on the fringes of Federation space, the USS Enterprise , halfway into its five-year mission, is destroyed by a powerful, unstoppable wave of unknown aliens. With the crew stranded on an unknown planet and with no apparent means of rescue, they find themselves in conflict with a new ruthless enemy who has a well-earned hatred of the Federation and what it stands for.

• 1.1 Prologue
• 1.2 Act One
• 1.3 Act Two
• 1.4 Act Three
• 2 Log entries
• 3 Memorable quotes
• 4.3.1 Under Roberto Orci
• 4.3.2 Under Justin Lin
• 4.4 Filming
• 4.5 Continuity
• 5.1 Marketing
• 5.2 Posters
• 5.3 Box office
• 5.4 Reception
• 5.5 Merchandise gallery
• 6 Awards and honors
• 7.1 Credits
• 7.4 Second Unit
• 7.5 Dubai Unit
• 7.6.1 Uncredited
• 7.7.1 Unconfirmed
• 7.8 Stand-ins
• 7.9.1 Unconfirmed
• 7.9.2 Companies
• 7.11.1 Graphic references
• 7.11.2 Balthazar M. Edison's personnel file
• 7.11.3 Diagnostic wrap display
• 7.11.4 Public transporter menu
• 7.11.5 Starbase Yorktown memorial wall (unseen material)
• 7.11.6 Spock Prime's holophoto – Senior staff of the USS Enterprise -A
• 7.11.7 Spock Prime's obituary
• 7.11.8 Unreferenced material
• 7.11.9 Deleted graphics references
• 7.12 External links

Summary [ ]

Prologue [ ].

Kirk offering a piece of the Abronath as a gesture of peace

In early 2263 , on the planet of Teenax , Captain James T. Kirk is negotiating a treaty between the Teenaxi Delegation and the Fibonan Republic who are long-term enemies. He presents a piece of an ancient weapon as a gesture of goodwill, but the Teenaxian leader asks where it comes from. When Kirk says the Fibonans acquired it a long time ago, the Teenaxians accuse the Fibonans of stealing the artifact . The Teenaxians (who turn out to be quite small creatures compared to Humans), attack Kirk. As a result, he flips open his communicator and urgently asks Montgomery Scott that he be beamed up. He is eventually evacuated to the USS Enterprise , accidentally taking two Teenaxians with him. Walking down a corridor in his torn uniform, Kirk is followed by Spock and Leonard McCoy . Kirk asks his first officer to log the artifact in the ship's archive vault . " Jim, you look like crap, " McCoy says. Kirk sarcastically thanks the doctor. When McCoy asks the captain if he is all right, Kirk replies, " Never better. Just another day in the fleet. "

Act One [ ]

The crew of the Enterprise anticipate shore leave

The Enterprise arrives at Yorktown

The stardate is 2263.2. It has been nine hundred and sixty-five days since the USS Enterprise began its five-year mission . The Enterprise docks at Starbase Yorktown , an extensive deep space colony containing a large city, to replenish dwindling supplies while the crew takes shore leave . Struggling to find continued meaning in his duties as captain, and becoming increasingly affected by thoughts of the death of his father, George Kirk , Kirk applies for a promotion to vice admiral .

Spock learns that Spock Prime has died

Meanwhile, Spock and Nyota Uhura deal with a time-out in their relationship; Hikaru Sulu reunites with his husband Ben and their young daughter; and Montgomery Scott struggles to keep the ship operational. Spock is also distraught to find that his alternate reality counterpart has recently passed away.

Kalara rescued and brought to Yorktown

An escape pod is found drifting out of a nearby nebula and its occupant, Kalara , claims her ship is stranded on the planet Altamid , which is located past the dangerous, unexplored nebula that will block communications with Starfleet . In a meeting with Yorktown's commanding officer Commodore Paris , Kirk volunteers the Enterprise for the rescue mission, and they get through the nebula with some difficulty, and eventually arrive at Altamid, which Spock finds to be a sparsely-populated class M world. Not long after arrival, the Enterprise comes under attack from a swarm of thousands of small, heavily-armed alien ships. Kirk orders a counterattack, but the Enterprise is overwhelmed by the enemy's sheer volume and strength; the ship's phasers , navigational deflector , and warp nacelles are destroyed within minutes.

The swarm cripples the Enterprise

With the Enterprise crippled and helpless, several of the attacking ships breach the hull, and a boarding party commanded by the swarm's leader, Krall , boards the ship. They make their way to the ship's vault, and on the way there Krall captures and drains the life force from several Enterprise crewmen, leaving them as withered husks. Scott attempts to restore power to the ship's impulse drive by feeding it from the warp core , but Krall orders the swarm to resume its attack. They destroy the neck section of the Enterprise , separating the saucer and engineering hulls, and leaving the saucer powerless due to Scott's modifications, leaving no way of switching over to the saucer's reserve power without a separation . Spock and Dr. McCoy are in a turbolift car that is ejected into space and subsequently captured by a swarm craft, but they managed to get into the craft and overpower its occupants.

Krall boards the Enterprise

Krall arrives at the ship and attempts to get to the vault to take the artifact from the Enterprise 's mission from Teenax. However, Kirk gets to the artifact first and gives it to Ensign Syl before ordering the crew to abandon ship. As the separated engineering hull begins to disintegrate, most of the crew escape in escape pods , only for the swarm ships to capture them and drag them back to the planet. Seeing this, Scott fires himself out of the ship in a advanced long-range torpedo casing.

Kirk on the bridge in the last moments of the Enterprise

Kirk goes to separate the saucer from the neck but Krall attacks him before Kirk can initiate the separation. Uhura goes on to separate the saucer and gets left behind with Krall in the neck section while Kirk is on the saucer side.

The Enterprise 's saucer burning up

Kirk reaches the bridge, which by now is occupied only by Sulu, Chekov , Kalara, and a few other crewmen. However, Chekov reports that the saucer is too badly damaged to keep in orbit, and will crash within minutes. Kirk orders the remaining crew to abandon the ship by Kelvin pods once it enters the atmosphere (though everyone except for himself, Chekov, and Kalara are also captured), and is the last person to leave the Enterprise . Moments later, the saucer crashes into a mountain range, and what remains of it crash-lands in a field, embedding itself into the earth.

Act Two [ ]

Scott, who has landed elsewhere, is saved from some of the planet's unruly inhabitants by an alien scavenger named Jaylah and taken to her makeshift home, which he discovers to be the wreckage of the USS Franklin , which went missing almost one hundred years prior . Meanwhile, the swarm craft hijacked by Spock and McCoy crash-lands on the planet, badly injuring Spock and forcing McCoy to perform some very hasty surgery in order to save his life.

" God, you're getting delirious. "

After discovering that the alien artifact originated from the planet on which they had crash-landed, Spock reveals to McCoy that he is reconsidering his place in Starfleet after Spock Prime's death. The two are then attacked by the swarm only to be saved by Scott, who has repaired the Franklin 's transporter system.

Meanwhile, Kirk and Chekov force Kalara to admit she lured the Enterprise into a trap, claiming that Krall promised to return her crew to her in exchange for the Enterprise and her own crew. With their tricorders having insufficient range to locate the rest of the crew, the trio board the crashed saucer in order to use its sensors. Kirk pretends to go to retrieve the artifact in a corridor and Kalara turns on him and reveals that her "crew" never existed; she's been in league with Krall from the very start. Fortunately, Kirk had seen through her, and Chekov rescues him as more of Krall's troopers arrive. Outnumbered and trapped, Kirk ignites the fuel tank for the saucer's maneuvering thrusters , which allows them to escape, but also causes the saucer to flip over, killing Kalara and the troopers, and causing the fuel tanks to explode, leaving the mostly-destroyed saucer as all that remains of the USS Enterprise .

" You gave your girlfriend a tracking device? " " ...That was not my intention. "

Meanwhile, Krall demands the artifact, threatening to kill Sulu if he does not get it. Syl relents and gives Krall the artifact, which he reveals to be the final component of a weapon called the Abronath that attacks organic tissue and which he intends to unleash on Starbase Yorktown. Krall then tests the weapon on Syl, dissolving her completely in the process.

When the group consisting of McCoy, Spock, Scott, Kirk, Chekov, and Jaylah has ascertained the location of the captured crew through Uhura's vokaya amulet, the group formulates a plan to infiltrate Krall's base. Jaylah is initially fearful of this, remembering the death of her family at the hands of Krall and his people, but Scott and Kirk are able to persuade her to help out.

Act Three [ ]

Spock, Jaylah, and McCoy beam into Krall's base

As Krall departs for Starbase Yorktown, Kirk, McCoy, Spock, and Jaylah rescue the crew before repairing the Franklin and also setting a course for the starbase. Spock and McCoy beam aboard an attacking drone ship and discover a way to disrupt the drones' cohesion, allowing the Franklin and the starbase to destroy much of the drone fleet using discordant noise on a very high frequency (VHF), provided courtesy of Jaylah's collection of "classical" late 20th century music.

After a brief battle between the swarm and Yorktown's defenses, Krall still manages to board the starbase despite the Battle of Yorktown , which eventually culminates in the Franklin intercepting his ships in a maneuver near the starbase's central control complex.

Krall's original identity: Captain Balthazar Edison

As they look for him, Uhura learns from the Franklin 's video logs that Krall's original name was Balthazar Edison and that he was born Human . Before his sudden disappearance, Edison had been the captain of the Franklin . He had been declared missing in action by Starfleet, and had ended up crashing onto Altamid, which was a former mining colony of an alien species known as the Ancient Ones, who had left drone equipment and other technology behind. Edison, and at least two of his crewmates, had used the remains of this technology to prolong their lives, and to build new military vessels. However, the use of the life-extension technology had also rendered the former members of the Franklin unrecognizable as Humans because they acquired some of the biological attributes of the other species they lured for their consumption.

Once Krall/Edison is on board the Franklin , he steals a command division Starfleet uniform and reverts to a mostly Human appearance after draining the life force from several more Enterprise crewmembers, healing the injuries he suffered when his ship was crushed.

Kirk fights Krall to save Yorktown

Krall/Edison prepares to deploy the bioweapon, leading to a chase through the base. Kirk confronts Krall/Edison in the life support hub, and they fight in anti-gravity and weightless conditions in the life support section of Yorktown. Krall/Edison expounds his theory that Humanity needs to be in a state of conflict in order to progress, and that the Federation has stifled this process by bringing about peace in large areas of the galaxy. The fight ends with both Krall/Edison and the Abronath bioweapon being ejected into space, where the Abronath devours him.

Kirk is rescued from suffering the same fate by Spock and McCoy in their hijacked drone. Kirk tells Spock he doesn't know what he would do without him, causing him to contemplate his decision to leave Starfleet.

Spock finds Spock Prime's photo of himself along with his crewmates from his reality

Commodore Paris closes the unsolved cases of the fate of Captain Edison and the crew of the USS Franklin . She commends Kirk for his actions and informs him that his promotion to the admiralty is assured. However, Kirk respectfully declines the offer, his experience having rejuvenated his spirit to be a Starfleet officer, stating that "admirals don't fly". Remaining a starship captain, Kirk allows McCoy to lead him to a gathering where McCoy has planned a surprise birthday party for his friend. At a loss for words, Kirk instead raises a toast to the late starship Enterprise and to their fallen comrades. Spock allows himself a look at some of Ambassador Spock's personal effects and finds a photograph of him and his prime reality comrades on the bridge of their Enterprise .

Kirk's surprise birthday party

Reminding himself of his earlier discussion with Dr. McCoy, Spock elects to live as his alternate self did and remains serving in Starfleet. Kirk offers his condolences on Ambassador Spock's passing to his friend, which Spock accepts and begins to renew his relationship with Uhura. A despondent Jaylah, also present at the gathering, has consumed a large number of alcoholic beverages, which she had been told would "take her edge off", but is clearly not having much of an effect. Hoping to boost her spirits, Scott presents Jaylah with an acceptance letter into Starfleet Academy , courtesy of a few strings pulled by Kirk, who also warns her that Starfleet has many rules but not to follow all of them.

The crew looks at the construction of their new starship

As Kirk and Spock look out of a massive window, they view the construction of a new starship. Considering the perils that had befallen the Enterprise and her crew since they were first assembled five years earlier, McCoy questions whether or not they really should go back out into space. As the starship finishes construction, its primary hull proudly displays her name and registry : USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) . Kirk, Spock, Scott, McCoy, Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura can be heard taking turns paraphrasing Zefram Cochrane :

Log entries [ ]

• Kirk: " Captain's Log , Stardate 2263.2. Today is our 966th day in deep space , a little under three years into our five-year mission . The more time we spend out here, the harder it is to tell where one day ends and the next one begins. It can be a challenge to feel grounded when even gravity is artificial . But, well, we do what we can to make it feel like home. The crew , as always, continues to act admirably despite the rigors of our extended stay here in outer space. And the personal sacrifices they have made. We continue to search for new life forms in order to establish firm diplomatic ties. Our extended time in uncharted territory has stretched the ship's mechanical capacities. But fortunately our engineering department, led by Mr. Scott, is more than up to the job. The ship aside, prolonged cohabitation has definitely had effects on the interpersonal dynamics. Some experiences for the better, and some for the worse. As for me, things have started to feel a little episodic. The farther out we go, the more I find myself wondering what it is we're trying to accomplish. If the universe is truly endless, then are we not striving for something forever out of reach? The Enterprise is scheduled for a reprovisioning stop at Yorktown , the Federation 's newest and most advanced starbase . Perhaps a break from routine will offer up some respite from the mysteries of the unknown. "
• Edison: " Captain's log... I don't remember the stardate. All distress calls unanswered. Of the crew , only three remain . I WON'T ALLOW IT! The indigenous race abandoned this planet long ago. They left behind sophisticated mining equipment and a drone workforce . They have some sort of technology that prolongs life . I will do whatever it takes for me and my crew. The Fed-Federation do not care about us. You'll probably never see me again. But if you do... be ready. "

Memorable quotes [ ]

" To perfect eyesight and a full head of hair. "

" You guys break up? What'd you do? " " A typically reductive inquiry, doctor. " " You know Spock, if an Earth girl says, uh, 'it's me, not you', it's definitely you."

" I am Lieutenant Nyota Uhura of the USS Enterprise . And you have committed an act of war against the Federation. " " Federation?! Federation is an act of war. "

" Your captain... why did you sacrifice yourself for him? " " He would have done the same. And if he made it off that ship, he will come for us. " " I am counting on it, Lieutenant Uhura. "

" Yeah, I say it hurts less when it's a surprise. " " If I may adopt a parlance with which you are familiar, I can confirm your theory to be "horseshit". "

" Come now, Montgomery Scotty. "

" Leaving me behind will significantly increase your chances of survival, Doctor. " " Well that's damn chivalrous of you, but completely out of the question. " " It is imperative that you locate any surviving crew. " " Here I was thinking you cared. " " Of course I care, Leonard. I always assumed my respect for you was clear. The dialogue we have had across the years has always... " " It's okay, Spock. You don't have to say it. " [McCoy and Spock are surrounded by three of Krall's drone ships] " Well, at least I won't die alone! " [Spock is beamed out from behind McCoy] " Well that's just typical."

" This is where the frontier pushes back. "

" You're part of something bigger now, lassie. Right? Dinnae give up on that. 'Cause we'll sure as hell never give up on you. That is what being part of a crew is all about. "

" What happened to you out there, Edison? " " Ed-i-son? I have to say, Kirk, I missed being me. We lost ourselves, but gained a purpose! A means to bring the galaxy back to the struggle that made Humanity strong. " " I think you're underestimating Humanity. " " I fought for Humanity! Lost millions to the Xindi and Romulan wars. And for what? For the Federation?! To sit me in a captain's chair and break bread with the enemy! " " We change. We have to. Or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles. "

" You lost. There's no way for you to make it back there! Give up! " " What, like you did?! I read your ship's logs, Captain James T. Kirk. At least I know what I am! I'm a soldier! " " You won the war, Edison. You gave us peace! " " Peace... is not what I was born into. "

" You... can't stop it. You will die. " " Better to die saving lives, than to live with taking them. That's what I was born into. "

" To the Enterprise ... and to absent friends. "

" You really want to head back out there, huh? "

" Space. The final frontier. " " These are the voyages of the starship... " " ... Enterprise . Its continuing mission... " " ...to explore strange new worlds... " " ...to seek out new life... " " ...and new civilizations... " ...to boldly go where no one has gone before. "

Background information [ ]

The film takes place two-and-a-half years into the characters' five-year mission , [1] when the USS Enterprise is attacked by the Swarm and the crew is marooned on an unknown world as a consequence. They gain an ally in Sofia Boutella 's alien warrior, Jaylah. [2]

Idris Elba plays the Swarm's leader, Krall, who detests the Federation's philosophy and opposes its introduction to the wider galaxy. [3] Elba said, " There's definitely an opposing argument to the good that the Federation think they do. There are purists that believe in independence, and believe that we're all made differently for a reason, and will fight tooth and nail to defend that. There's massive relatability to modern world politics in that sense. " [4]

J.J. Abrams had stated he would like more female characters in the sequel. [5] He also mentioned the sequel could fall back on abandoned story ideas for the characters. " There was [an idea] implying the sexuality of one of the characters, a back story for another character that was pretty intense, a really funny story we wanted to do with yet another. Hopefully, if there are future films, those other stories will get their moment, " he said. [6] Roberto Orci has voiced support for having a gay character. [7]

William Shatner was contacted about a possible role in the film. Along with Shatner, Leonard Nimoy had been rumored to appear, in a scene with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto , as the future alternate reality versions of the characters. [8] In the wake of Nimoy's death on 27 February 2015 , Simon Pegg mentioned there would be some tribute to the late actor in the final film. [9] On 27 May 2015 , Pegg mentioned that it was possible Shatner could portray Kirk again at some point, [10] but Shatner confirmed he would not appear and he never discussed it. [11] Shatner's Kirk and Nimoy's Spock appear in the film in a still handled by the actor Zachary Quinto.

Zoë Saldana stated she would dislike it if Spock and Uhura broke up, describing that possibility as potentially "heartbreaking" for her. Concerning the film's action quotient, she speculated, " I'm pretty sure that for this third installment, we'll be able to sort of [...] be more hands-on. " [12] Lin said their relationship will be consistent and acknowledge what came before. [13]

Bruce Greenwood expressed hope that Christopher Pike could return, which he referred to as a "deep, deep wish to come back." Although Pike dies in Star Trek Into Darkness , Greenwood suspected Khan Noonien Singh 's revitalizing blood could be used to bring Pike back to life. As a result, he confirmed, laughing, that he would be interested in reprising the role in " Star Trek III: The Search for Pike ", an in-joke reference to the title of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock . In a serious manner, Greenwood related he would be interested in further resolution to the relationship between Pike and Kirk. ( Star Trek Magazine Special 2015 , p. 21) In reference to Kirk, he concluded, " Whatever happens in the third film, it will give the audience a sense of progression and change; an arc and a character that's really growing with them. " ( SciFiNow , issue 80, p. 26)

On 2 February 2015 , the on-line movie and television news site FilmDivider.com reported that, for the new Star Trek film, three new major female roles would be cast. One of them would be the President of the United Federation of Planets , one would be a starship captain , and the third would be an ex-wife of Doctor McCoy , who was to be depicted as having several former wives. The male villain would be a Bryan Cranston -like type and the website also stated that Cranston was in talks with the studio. All this proved to be false. [14]

The working title for this sequel was "Washington" and "Washington Project". [15] [16] [17] On 21 April 2015 , TrekMovie.com announced that Star Trek Beyond "may be the title" of the film. [18] The title was later confirmed by Director Justin Lin . [19]

Development [ ]

Under roberto orci [ ].

Producer Bryan Burk commented that Paramount wanted the third film to take less time to produce than Star Trek Into Darkness took, and that 2016 – the 50th anniversary of Star Trek – would be a logical year to release it. [20] Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman added that Paramount insisted on a 2016 release date. [21]

J.J. Abrams, who directed Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness , chose to direct Star Wars Episode VII , and accordingly only produce this film. [22] Abrams noted, " Having directed pilots and movies and then having seen subsequent directors work on those shows or do their own versions of those films – time and again I have seen it done better. " [23] Patrick McKay stated, " Bad Robot , J.J., and his team are really at the heart of this movie's development. They are the guiding light by which we all do our work. J.J.'s been a key part of helping us spin this tale from the beginning, and if there are people who think that we've lost him to Star Wars this time around, that’s not the truth as far as we see it. " [24]

In an interview published on 6 May 2013 , Michael Giacchino expressed he was open to return to score the film, saying, " I’d be happy and honored to do another if that was in the future. " [25]

In August 2013 , then-writing partners Zack Stentz and Ashley Edward Miller pitches to J.J. Abrams a story with an antagonist who "...was more a 'noble adversary' a la Balance of Terror than another Khan . There was also Dyson Sphere [sic] and an ancient, Lovecraftian menace to the galaxy." [26] [27]

In September 2013 , J.J. Abrams acknowledged rumors that Rupert Wyatt could helm the sequel, stating, " He's incredibly talented, and we'd be lucky to have someone as talented as Rupert. But there are things we're focusing on right now before the director, which is just sort of the fundamentals of where the story is gonna go. " [28]

On 2 November 2013 , it was reported that Attack the Block director Joe Cornish was Paramount's choice to direct the film, though reports differed as to whether or not he had already begun negotiations to join the project. According to Variety , Cornish was offered the film once before, in May 2013 , but had turned it down. [29] [30] [31] Abrams voiced his support for Cornish, stating, " I don't know if [he] is the guy. My guess is that's up in the air. I adore him and love him and can't wait to see what he does next. Hopefully, it will be Star Trek." [32]

On 6 December 2013 , it was announced that up-and-coming screenwriters J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay would be writing the script alongside Roberto Orci. It was also announced that Alex Kurtzman would not be involved with the project, due to work on The Amazing Spider-Man movies and other projects. [33]

In February 2014 , J.D. Payne explained they were trying to come up with a classic Star Trek storyline, where " You should respond to this opportunity that the crew has that also has some pitfalls to it [....] It's sort of the Adam and Eve thing, where should we eat the fruit or not eat the fruit? Well, there are some very compelling reasons why they should and why they shouldn't. So, [there are] similar kinds of things here that really give the whole movie an opportunity to sort of play with that, and have people come down on different sides and wrestle with it. " [34]

In April 2014 , it was revealed Roberto Orci had been lobbying to direct the film, but Paramount was reluctant to allow him, as he had never directed before. However, Bad Robot and Skydance Productions were supportive. [35]

At the US premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness on 2 May 2013 , Damon Lindelof hinted that the prospect the Klingons would declare war on the Federation would come to fruition, and that Benedict Cumberbatch would return as Khan Noonien Singh . [36] However, Lindelof was not involved with the sequel.

Later in May 2013, Paramount relented to Roberto Orci's appeals, offering him the director's chair. [37]

In an interview published on 29 June 2014 , Patrick McKay implied the film may not have a villain, explaining that, while he loved Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , he also loved the other films " that have a little bit more of the character relationships and the humor and some more of the speculative sci-fi elements. " [38]

In July 2014 , Roberto Orci clarified that he was not technically directing the film until Paramount approved the script. [39] On 9 August 2014 , Orci proclaimed he had finished a first draft of the script. [40] On 27 August 2014 , he revealed that the casting process for other characters had begun. [41]

On 18 September 2014 , Zachary Quinto stated he expected the film to start shooting within the next six months. [42] The next day, it was confirmed that shooting would begin in February 2015 , with a summer 2016 release date. An official announcement was to be made soon thereafter with a specific release date. [43]

As the domestic gross of Star Trek Into Darkness (which stood at US$228.5 million) was less than the first film, Paramount made the decision to film the sequel outside Los Angeles to save money. " We're making it for what it should have been shot for last time if we had made it outside of L.A., which we would have done except that [J.J. Abrams] didn't want to, " a studio source told The Hollywood Reporter . " That was a $20 million issue. " [44]

On 29 September 2014 , Mayor Park Wonsoon confirmed he had met with the producers, including Jeffrey Chernov , and confirmed Seoul in South Korea as one of the filming locations for Star Trek Beyond . [45] According to TrekMovie.com, the film would be shot primarily in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which would also be used for outside filming locations. [46]

Roberto Orci officially stepped down from directing the film on 5 December 2014 . Orci remained attached the project as an in-name producer, but ceased to by involved in production. [47] While the film was without a director, Jonathan Frakes lobbied to be given the opportunity to direct the movie. ( SFX , issue 270, p. 63)

Under Justin Lin [ ]

On 22 December 2014 , it was announced that Justin Lin had been hired to direct the film. [48] Two days later, it was announced that Roberto Orci would only produce the film and will no longer be involved in the writing process. [49]

A childhood fan of Star Trek: The Original Series , Lin was called by J.J. Abrams while filming the second season of True Detective . [50] After learning he was not beholden to any previous script, Lin decided to go " new and fresh. The Klingons , Romulans and other species are great, but it's time to go further. It has been fun to focus on creating whole new worlds and species. " [51] Simon Pegg coined the title when he recognized Lin was trying to take Star Trek "beyond". [52]

On 21 January 2015 , it was announced that principal filming would start on 15 April 2015 at Vancouver Film Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [53] It was also announced that Simon Pegg and Doug Jung would help write the film. [54] Jung came to stay at Pegg's house to co-write the script; whenever they felt they completed enough of the rewrite, they would pass time by watching episodes of the original show. [55] They also consulted Memory Alpha, with Pegg claiming " We actually wrote to the Memory Alpha guys and got them to name a certain device in the movie. I sent them a letter saying, 'Can you come up with this for me?' In two hours, they came back with an entire etymological history of what the thing was. It's beautiful. It’s fantastic to have that support network. " [56]

Simon Pegg commented Paramount felt Roberto Orci's script was " a little bit too Star Trek -y. Avengers Assemble [the release title of The Avengers in the United Kingdom], which is a pretty nerdy, comic-book, supposedly niche thing, made $1.5 billion. Star Trek Into Darkness made half a billion, which is still brilliant. But it means that, according to the studio, there's still $1bn worth of box office that don't go and see Star Trek . And they want to know why. " Pegg described the rewrite as being akin to "mak[ing] a Western or a thriller or a heist movie, then populate that with Star Trek characters so it's more inclusive to an audience that might be a little bit reticent". [57]

Pegg also explained they wanted to mark the 50th anniversary by deconstructing the franchise. " I felt like it was important to really deconstruct the idea of Star Trek , the idea of the Federation and why it's special. We'll really be poking at a lot of different things. " He also said, " We're gathering a great community within the galaxy, but to what end? What does it all mean? " [58]

The character of Jaylah was inspired by Jennifer Lawrence's portrayal of Ree in the 2010 film Winter's Bone . Pegg and Jung referred to her by Lawrence's nickname "J. Law", eventually inspiring the name "Jaylah". [59]

On 24 February 2015 , it was reported that filming was pushed back to begin on 1 June 2015 and continue on until September. [60]

In March 2015 , Stephen F. Windon was confirmed as the film's cinematographer, replacing Roberto Orci's choice of Claudio Miranda . [61] It was also confirmed that Nick Satriano had replaced the previously announced First Assistant Director Kim H. Winther . [62]

With the release of the official casting call, it was confirmed that shooting in Vancouver, B.C. would be starting on 15 June 2015 and continuing through 15 October 2015 . To be considered being an actor, extra, or crew member on the new film, a legal eligibility for working in Vancouver was a requirement. Extras casting would get underway in May 2015 . [63]

On 2 June 2015 , it was reported that the first draft of the script had been finished. [64]

On 13 June 2015 , Michael Giacchino said he had not yet talked to the makers of Star Trek Beyond about the prospect of him returning to Star Trek in order to compose this film. The reason no contact had been made was partly because Giacchino himself had been extremely busy but also " because they're in such a crazy schedule crunch [....] But I imagine that I will be talking to them soon about all of this, and we'll figure out what’s going to happen next, " he said. [65]

Deep Roy was confirmed to be returning as Keenser on 8 July 2015 , having canceled a convention appearance for filming on Star Trek Beyond . [66]

On 11 July 2015 , Michael Giacchino announced his participation in the movie by tweeting, " So thrilled to be working with Justin Lin and the rest of the Enterprise crew on Star Trek Beyond ! Let's boldly go! " [67] [68] He commented that Beyond is not as gritty and earthbound as the previous two films, so the score would feel different. [69]

It was announced on 24 July 2015 that Joe Taslim had been cast in a key role opposite Idris Elba. [70]

On 7 August 2015 , Joseph Gatt confirmed that the character he played in Star Trek Into Darkness , Science Officer 0718 , would not be returning for Star Trek Beyond , due to script rewrites eliminating his role from the story. [71]

The Italian press reported on 24 October 2015 that former Chelsea, Juventus, Paris Saint Germain and Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti had been cast to play a doctor. [72]

Bryan Burk observed, " In the beginning, you could see a palpable sense of excitement as the cast started to work with [Justin Lin]. " ( SFX , issue 270, p. 71)

Addressing the involvement of Roberto Orci and his co-writers John D. Payne and Patrick McKay, Justin Lin said on 14 December 2015 " The WGA has to figure it out, because I don’t know who those writers are, I never met them. I came on, I had an idea and then Simon and Doug came on. I had one conversation with Orci after I came on, and that was it. " [73]

While the first trailer credited Simon Pegg and Doug Jung , it also credited Roberto Orci , John D. Payne , and Patrick McKay . The second trailer only credited Pegg and Jung.

Due to Warner Bros. Pictures becoming Paramount Pictures, the copy of the Paramount logo that came from the film was replaced with a new copy of the logo on the DVD.

Filming [ ]

Boutella and Lin on set

Lin and Pine on the set of the Franklin 's transporter

It was reported that filming was pushed back again and was to begin on 25 June 2015 . [74]

On 25, 26, 29 and 30 June 2015 , the production filmed scenes in Squamish Boulders , Squamish, British Columbia. Filming took place around the Kacodemon Boulder and Cave Boulder for the first three shooting days. On the fourth day, filming took place south of the Black Dyke Boulder. [75] The filming schedule was updated on 26 June 2015 and the first set photos as well as a sixteen-page filming permit contract went online. [76] [77]

On 26 June 2015 , Executive Producer David Ellison revealed Dubai as a filming location. [78] [79] Three days later, Director Justin Lin revealed that the title was officially Star Trek Beyond , as well as releasing the first officially released set photo. [80]

On 19 July 2015 , TrekCore reported some set photos from a large green screen build-up located at Kent Hangar Field, west of Vancouver International Airport. In addition, an enormous wooden construction was also spotted. [81] This location was later revealed as a filming location for War for the Planet of the Apes . [82]

Between 11 August 2015 and 13 August 2015 , an open casting call for background roles was held by Miranda Davidson Studios at Dubai City Studio Soundstage, Building B, Ground Floor. [83] [84]

On 14 August 2015 , several more set photos were published on the internet, backing the claim that a Federation starship crash landed on a planet. [85]

On 20 August 2015 , the first set photos from the filming were published by ScreenRush.com . Several shots gave a detailed view of Sanja Milkovic Hays ' newly designed Starfleet uniforms and also several shots of an alien character played by Sofia Boutella . [86]

On 22 August 2015 , the Dubai Film and TV Commission (DFTC) announced an internship program which would run from 13 September until 15 October 2015. The organization meanwhile also confirmed Dubai was to be used as a filming location for Star Trek Beyond , in October 2015. [87]

On 27 August 2015 and 29 August 2015 , Twitter users reported that Star Trek Beyond was filming at Triangle Road in Richmond, B.C. and at the Pitt River Quarries in Red Deer, B.C. [88] [89]

In October 2015, filming started in Dubai. Filming locations included the desert reserve Platinum Heritage and the Dubai Central Park Towers ground in front of the Central Park Tower and the Platinum Tower. [90] [91] [92] [93]

During their filming in Dubai, several set photos were posted on Twitter, Instagram and other social media sites, including several images and videos of new alien species. [94] [95] [96] [97] [98] [99]

Principal filming wrapped in Dubai on Thursday 15 October 2015 . [100]

On 11 March 2016 , it was announced that reshoots would occur the following week. It was also announced that Shohreh Aghdashloo would be playing the " High Command of the Federation ". [101] Reshoots wrapped up on 17 March 2016 . [102]

Continuity [ ]

• In this installment, James T. Kirk begins sporting the hairstyle of his prime universe counterpart on Star Trek: The Original Series .
• At Starbase Yorktown , Hikaru Sulu meets up with his husband and daughter . It pays homage to former Hikaru Sulu actor George Takei , who is gay. His daughter is possibly Demora Sulu 's alternate counterpart first seen in Star Trek Generations . (This would make her much older than the Demora of the primary timeline, who was born in 2271 .)
• According to logs of the USS Franklin , Balthazar Edison was a MACO major before he was captain of the Franklin . The logs also said that he participated in the Xindi wars , possibly as one of the MACOs assigned to Enterprise NX-01 under Captain Jonathan Archer in ENT : " The Expanse ". It also mentioned that he fought in the Earth-Romulan War .
• The Franklin 's registry number (NX-326) is a reference to Leonard Nimoy’s birthday (March 26). The ship is named after director Justin Lin's father.
• The saucer section crash landing on Altamid is an homage to when the USS Enterprise -D crash-landed on Veridian III in Star Trek Generations .

The " giant green hand " seen in the credits

• One of the many stories of the Franklin 's fate involved a " giant green hand ". This could be an homage to TOS : " Who Mourns for Adonais? ". A giant green hand also appears in the end credits of the film.
• The ripping of James T. Kirk 's shirt at the beginning of the film is an homage to various Original Series episodes such as " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", " Shore Leave ", " Court Martial ", and " Amok Time " in which Kirk gets into fights and his shirt is ripped.
• This movie marks the third time an Enterprise is destroyed in a Star Trek film . The original USS Enterprise was destroyed in 2285 in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and the Enterprise -D was destroyed in 2371 in Star Trek Generations .
• This film marks the second time a ship captained by Kirk has crashed into an ocean, the first time being in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home , and the third time it made contact with the water, the second time being in Into Darkness , when it was hiding on Nibiru .
• Kirk mentioning the Enterprise being on its 966th day in deep space is a reference to the month that Star Trek: The Original Series first aired: September 1966 .
• This is the second Star Trek film not to feature any scenes taking place on or near Earth . ( Star Trek: Insurrection was the first.)
• The photograph of the prime USS Enterprise -A crew Spock views while looking through Ambassador Spock 's belongings near the end of the film is a publicity photo for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier . Terry J. Erdmann commented: " When Spock opened the kit at the end and sees that picture of the original crew, Paula [M. Block] and I just looked at one another. I arranged that photo shoot, getting all the actors together after the fact. They had only shot together as a full cast for a few days, so I had to get the wardrobe, set, lighting, etc. to make that moment happen. I was so pleased to see it on screen when the picture flashed in front of me in the theater. I thought, that photo shoot still has legs ". [103]
• This marks the third movie to feature Kirk's birthday. The first was shown at the beginning of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and the second was the opening scene of Star Trek .
• Kirk having a drink with McCoy as he discusses his life is reminiscent of many such scenes in The Original Series where Kirk sought Bones' counsel, often over a drink, as seen in episodes such as " The Corbomite Maneuver " and " The Ultimate Computer ".
• The drink that McCoy dismisses when he finds Kirk drinking is Saurian brandy , the preferred drink of Kirk and McCoy in The Original Series .
• This is the second film – the first being The Wrath of Khan – where Kirk ponders his future on his birthday.
• The toast McCoy offers to Kirk while sharing Saurian brandy , " To perfect eyesight and a full head of hair ", is interesting considering that in the prime universe, Kirk requires corrective lenses, being allergic to Retinax V .
• The toast Kirk gives at his birthday party in honor of the fallen crewmembers was also spoken by his counterpart in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock , Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek Nemesis , and Kor in DS9 : " Once More Unto the Breach ". His toast to the Enterprise also echoes the toast Montgomery Scott raises to the original Enterprise in TNG : " Relics ".
• Commodore Paris could possibly be a distant relative to Admiral Owen Paris and his son, Lieutenant Tom Paris , from Star Trek: Voyager . Simon Pegg later confirmed that Commodore Paris was a nod to Tom Paris from Voyager and stated that the commodore " probably " could have been his grandmother. [104]
• Simon Pegg stated that the names of the two crew members killed by Krall were taken from " Balance of Terror ", Martine and Tomlinson . [105]
• Chekov states that Scotch whisky was invented by an old woman in Moscow . It is reminiscent of Chekov 's dialogue about Scotch from TOS : " The Trouble with Tribbles ".
• Shortly before the Franklin lifts off from Altamid, Kirk asks Sulu if he can fly it. Sulu turns and says, " You kidding me, sir? ". In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , Captain Sulu of the USS Excelsior similarly turned toward Janice Rand and said " Are you kidding? ", when she asked if they should report to Starfleet that Praxis had exploded.
• Given that the film opens on the 966th day of the five-year mission (2 January 2263), it can be extrapolated that the five-year mission began on 12 May 2260 .
• Spock Prime's date of death is listed on screen as stardate 2263.02, ostensibly the same day as 2263.2, when Kirk records his Captain's log early in the film.
• This is the third Star Trek film after Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek in which no Klingons appear on screen. While Klingon ships appeared in both other films, this is the first where there is no reference to them at all.
• Karl Urban has said that the medallion he wears at the end of the film, as well as his shirt being open, is an homage to DeForest Kelley 's similar first appearance as McCoy in Star Trek: The Motion Picture . [106]
• Spock's pondering leaving Starfleet to return to New Vulcan (to dedicate his life to completing the late Ambassador Spock's work) is possibly a reference to the fact that in the prime universe, he left the service soon after the end of the five-year mission (as seen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture ) to dedicate himself to the kolinahr discipline. By the end of the events of that film, he had resolved his internal conflicts and had decided that his initially reluctant return to Starfleet was now a permanent one. In this film, Spock ultimately decides, after looking at a photo of Ambassador Spock with his fellow aged Enterprise comrades, that he also belongs with his own Enterprise family.
• This is the first on-screen use of saucer separation since Star Trek Generations , and the first on-screen use by a ship other than the Enterprise -D.
• This film establishes that Kirk's mother, Winona, is still living, as McCoy asks the captain if he will be calling his mother on his birthday.
• With a release at Star Trek 's 50th anniversary, this film includes fifty new alien species. [107]
• In one line, Krall refers to the Federation 's "centuries of expansion"; according to ENT : " These Are the Voyages... ", by the events of the film, the Federation was just over a century old (Although, considering the unknown circumstances of the Franklin 's arrival on this planet, it may be that Krall was the victim of a time dilation effect or Krall has simply lost track of time after so long trapped on Altamid with no awareness of the date on Earth).
• When Scotty beams Spock and McCoy onto the Franklin separately, he explains that it's so they wouldn't become spliced by the cargo transporter, a prospect that McCoy finds horrifying. This references the Voyager episode " Tuvix " – one of the two people put together by the transporter is a Vulcan, Tuvok .
• The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " The Ascent " also features two characters who are often at odds being stuck with each other ( Odo and Quark ) being separated by a one-at-a-time beam-out, with the one initially left behind, Odo, believing Quark has abandoned him (due to death).
• This is the second time in the alternate reality that equipment originally created for mining was used as a weapon (against the Enterprise ); the first was Nero's ship, the Narada .
• In his intercom address during the Enterprise 's mission to Altamid, Kirk states to his crew that " There is no such thing as the unknown, only the temporarily hidden. " His prime timeline counterpart similarly stated to his crew, " there's no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood, " in the episode " The Corbomite Maneuver ".
• In Star Trek: The Original Series , the opening tagline ended with " where no man has gone before ", a wording that could be seen as sexist, so in Star Trek: The Next Generation it was changed to " where no one has gone before ". In Star Trek Beyond , the line is spoken (using "no one") by a woman, Uhura .
• Thasus is mentioned in the film. Thasus was the homeworld of the non-corporael Thasian species. It was home to Charles Evans after a transport ship crash-landed on the ship.
• Spock quotes Shakespeare's Measure for Measure , Act 3, Scene 1 - "The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."

Release [ ]

International title cards: English, Castilian Spanish, Chinese (traditional), French, Spanish, Portuguese

In October 2015, Allociné , a French site for the dates of movie releases, reported that, in France, Star Trek Beyond will be released on 24 August 2016 and will be titled Star Trek sans limites . [108] In January 2016, Paramount Pictures France advanced the release date to 17 August 2016 . [109] The release date in Belgium, Switzerland, and French-speaking communities in Europe was also 17 August 2016. The release date in Quebec and New Brunswick provinces and French-speaking communities in North America was 22 July 2016, the same date as the United States. [110]

Despite not being permitted the chance to direct this film, Jonathan Frakes has nonetheless made supportive comments about it. For example, in the lead-up to the movie's release, he has remarked, " I think Justin Lin is going to do a great job. I'm looking forward to that. " ( SFX , issue 270, p. 63)

Marketing [ ]

The Star Trek Beyond cast in the July 2015 Omaze campaign announcement video

Filming of an Omaze video using the codename "Washington"

On 14 July 2015 , the cast of Star Trek Beyond announced "To Boldly Go", a charity campaign in partnership with Omaze to benefit nine different children's charities:

• Brave Beginnings (Zoe Saldana)
• Camp Sunshine (Anton Yelchin)
• Direct Relief (Zachary Quinto)
• Heaven Homes (Idris Elba)
• KidsCan (Karl Urban)
• Koreatown Youth & Community Center (John Cho)
• Make-A-Wish (Chris Pine)
• Time is Precious (Simon Pegg)
• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ( Susan Nimoy in honor of Leonard Nimoy)

Those who donated would receive prizes, as well as a greater chance of winning a walk-on part in the film for them and a friend, depending on the amount they give. J.J. Abrams previously announced a similar campaign, " Force for Change ", for Star Wars Episode VII. [111] Each week, two of the cast members announced a winner. [112] The winners included Audrianna Davis and friend Summer, [113] Amy and Karen Ackerman, [114] Steven and Nick, [115] Steve Lamb, Linda, and several others. [116]

Omaze reported on the set visit in late September 2015 [117] and announced Adam Horwitz as the winner of the walk-on role. [118]

A trailer for the film was released online on 14 December 2015 , and premiered in theaters before Star Wars: The Force Awakens . [119] The trailer, which was set to the Beastie Boys ' " Sabotage " as a callback to the 2009 film, drew a mixed response from fans as well as George Takei and Wil Wheaton . [120] Simon Pegg admitted to being surprised by the trailer, speculating " the marketing people [were] saying, 'Everyone come see this film, it's full of action and fun.' When there is a lot more to it than that. I didn't love it because I know there is a lot more to the film. " [121]

A full-length trailer was released on 20 May 2016 , to mixed reviews, but was better received than the teaser.

There is a four-issue comic book series titled Star Trek: Manifest Destiny , though it is not branded as an official prequel to the film like previous IDW Publishing comics Countdown and Countdown to Darkness .

Star Trek Beyond is the first film in the franchise not to have a novelization.

Collectible miniatures of starships from the film have been produced by Snapco and more are slated for release by Hallmark and Quantum Mechanix . Ben Robinson , the project manager of the Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection partwork magazine, has announced that Eaglemoss Collections will be producing a USS Enterprise and a USS Franklin from the film as special issues. Another Beyond starship design will also be produced. Additional starship miniature premiums will be included with Paramount Pictures ' Amazon.com and Walmart home video releases.

Concept art showing the Franklin has been posted at TrekCore . [122] [123]

On 13 March 2016 , it was reported that Paramount had announced the film's international release dates. Thailand would be the first country to show the film, on 19 July 2016 , and Argentina the last, on 1 September 2016 . [124] [125]

A still from the movie

On 27 March 2016 , the first official still photo from the movie was released as part of USA Today 's summer film preview. [126] [127] More photos were released later, including after the film's second trailer was released. [128]

A promotional single was released for the film in America, " Sledgehammer ", by Rihanna . In China, a different track, " Lost in the Stars " was released by Chinese pop star Zhang Jie (aka Jason Zhang). [129]

Posters [ ]

The first official teaser poster for the film was released alongside the second trailer. [130] Soon after, character posters started being released. [131] The posters featuring Sulu and Uhura had to be re-released following a gaffe that placed their insignia on the wrong side of the uniform. [132]

Box office [ ]

Despite receiving reviews as positive as its two predecessors, Beyond underperformed at the US box office. It opened with US$59.2 million, behind the last two films, and almost a month after its release it only grossed US$196.9 million worldwide, compared to its US$185 million budget. [133] Beyond ultimately grossed US$158.8 million in North America, the lowest total of the three current Star Trek film series, though overseas it made approximately US$183 million, ahead of the first film. At a total gross of US$341.9 million, it was the least successful of the trilogy financially speaking. [134] Not only that, the total gross pitted against its production budget, made Beyond the second all-time worst performing film of the entire Star Trek film franchise in terms of profitability, only surpassed by Star Trek Nemesis . Ironically though, and unlike the latter, Beyond was well received by critics and fans alike, making it as of 2020 the fourth best-received film of the franchise, even beating out, albeit by the slimmest of margins, fan favorite Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – that is, only in this regard as that film was a financial success for the studio.

• see Star Trek films – Performance summary for further particulars.

The substantial loss suffered by the studio on the account of Beyond , played a major part in the cancellation decision in January 2019 of the fourth alternate reality film . [135]

The dismal box-office performance reflected itself in its resultant domestic sales of DVD and Blu-ray Disc home video formats, equally disappointing. According to the professional industry site The Numbers, the Beyond domestic home video sales (excluding the three-film combo releases) had by June 2020 totaled up to US$42.5 million in contrast to Star Trek 's US$200 million and Into Darkness 's US$80.5 million with an additional US$3.8 million for combo releases of the latter two titles. [136]

Reception [ ]

Forbes magazine argued that Paramount should have given the film a lower budget: " The thing that made [ Beyond ] most appealing to the fans, that it played like a smaller-scale 50th anniversary homage to the spirit and tone of the original show, was the thing that arguably doomed it in terms of blockbuster success. Star Trek Beyond was what its fans wanted it to be. There is value in that over the long run. But Paramount and friends need to realize that Star Trek is never going to be a Guardians of the Galaxy -level success and plan accordingly. " [137] The Forbes commentary touched upon the circumstance that while "old guard" Star Trek fans did show up at the theaters, "new", and non-fans alike failed to do so, they at the time being offered a plethora of apparently more attractive (block buster) alternatives, those stemming from The Walt Disney Company by then owned properties in particular. These not only included the cited Guardians of the Galaxy and others from the Marvel Cinematic Universe film franchise, but the productions from the in the meantime revived rival Star Wars franchise as well, as detailed in a later Forbes editorial. [138]

Additionally, the alternate reality film franchise had started to cause a rift between the "old guard" fanbase and newcomers to the franchise, with the former expressing their reservations about the alternate reality (re)incarnation, especially for its lack of "the Roddenberry factor", as Star Trek production staff veteran Doug Drexler had put it, [139] (X) but which was present in Beyond , courtesy Director Justin Lin and Writer Simon Pegg, making it the trio's best received one by the [old guard] fanbase. Whereas newcomers on the other hand had flocked to the first two action packed films, precisely because it was fast paced fun and in line with similar fare offered to them by other franchises which catered to the current tastes of contemporary cinema goers (being coined "fun, popcorn movies" by former Star Trek production staffer Roger Lay, Jr. [140] ), they apparently deemed Beyond as "too Trekkie " to their tastes. [141] [142]

Simon Pegg commented two years after the film's release that Paramount had poorly marketed the film, stating they had waited too long to release a full trailer and that they were afraid of mentioning the 50th anniversary. He also expressed anger at how the teaser ruined the use of "Sabotage" in the movie. [143] (X) Pegg did not deviate from his opinions as he reiterated them in March 2020 to IndieWire in an even more outspoken fashion. [144] Incidentally, the studio appeared to have deemed the film "too Trekkie" as well, explaining their marketing decisions regarding the heavy emphasis on action and fun, as related above . Furthermore, Pegg himself came by and large to agree with the Forbes assessment when he at a later point in time – in the process expressing his own personal doubt on the continued existence of the alternate reality and/or the film franchise as a whole for that matter – stated to Collider ,

"The fact is, the appeal of Star Trek is slightly more niche than the appeal of, say, the Marvel movies, which make huge amounts of money, and have this really, really broad appeal and they do very well. I think Star Trek is just a little bit more niche, so it isn’t gonna hit those kind of numbers. So yes, the obvious thing to do would be to not go for that massive spectacle, go for something a little bit more restrained in the vein of the original series. Yes, that would be a brilliant thing to do, and I’m sure it probably has been discussed… You specialize a little bit more. (...) Maybe TV is a better place for [Star Trek] now. Television has evolved so much. It's become something which is very much a contemporary, a peer of cinema. It's simply viewed in a different way. It isn't a reduced scope anymore. You can still do masses of interesting things, and it can still look modern and not inexpensive. Maybe television is a better format for Star Trek. That's where it started, you know." [145]

What Beyond , or rather its poor box office performance, had abundantly and conclusively demonstrated though, was that the reliance on the traditional Star Trek fanbase alone for a motion picture production to become financially viable, was not enough due its relatively small numerical size of potential cinema visitors, especially from the 1990s onward when production costs exploded from double to triple digit millions of dollars, and arguably never had been. Any new Star Trek motion picture production, be it a film or a television production, especially those conceived from the 1990s onward, needed to attract a viewership that extended well beyond "Trekdom" alone, and which was something Paramount was actually already acutely aware of since Berman -era Star Trek . ( A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager , pp. 139-140) It is this circumstance in particular that explained the ponderous and sluggish development of a projected fifteenth film ; Paramount needs a film that is appealing to an audience as broad as possible, [146] the aforementioned Forbes admonishment notwithstanding – hence the resurfacing of the "too Trekkie" qualifier in regard to that projected film.

• See also in this regard: Star Trek films – Gross vs net profitability

Merchandise gallery [ ]

Awards and honors [ ]

Star Trek Beyond received the following awards and honors.

Links and references [ ]

Credits [ ].

John Cho Simon Pegg Chris Pine Zachary Quinto Zoë Saldana Karl Urban Anton Yelchin And Idris Elba

Sofia Boutella Lydia Wilson

Paramount Pictures And Skydance Present

In Association with Alibaba Pictures

In Association with Huahua Media

A Bad Robot Production

A Sneaky Shark Production

A Perfect Storm Entertainment Production

A Justin Lin Film

In Loving Memory of Leonard Nimoy

• Captain James T. Kirk – Chris Pine
• Commander Spock – Zachary Quinto
• Doctor "Bones" McCoy – Karl Urban
• Lieutenant Uhura – Zoë Saldana
• Montgomery "Scotty" Scott – Simon Pegg
• Sulu – John Cho
• Chekov – Anton Yelchin
• Krall – Idris Elba
• Jaylah – Sofia Boutella
• Manas – Joe Taslim
• Kalara – Lydia Wilson
• Keenser – Deep Roy
• Ensign Syl – Melissa Roxburgh
• Tyvanna – Anita Brown
• Ben – Doug Jung
• Fi'Ja – Danny Pudi
• Zavanko – Kim Kold
• Hider – Fraser Aitcheson
• Matthew MacCaull ( Blue Shirt 1 )
• Emy Aneke ( Blue Shirt 2 )
• Commodore Paris – Shohreh Aghdashloo
• Commander Finnegan – Greg Grunberg
• Jennifer Cheon ( Control Tower Technician 1 )
• Jarod Joseph ( Control Tower Technician 2 )
• Jeremy Raymond ( Control Tower Technician 3 )
• Kissing Guy – Harry Han
• Kissing Girl – Gina Brinkman
• Injured Red Shirt – Adam DiMarco
• Orion Girl – Fiona Vroom
• Chancellor Ambassador – Richard Laurence
• Sir Olden – Doug Chapman
• Wadjet – Dan Payne
• Jin – Anthony Shim
• Jeanine – Andrea Yu
• Teenaxi Leader – Shea Whigham
• Jae – Christian Sloan
• Krall's Henchman – Jake Huang
• Night Watch Captain – Priya Ragaratnam
• Yorktown Red Shirt – Luka Hays
• Thomas Cadrot ( USSE Bridge Crew 1 )
• Jennifer W. Evans ( USSE Bridge Crew 2 )
• Roxanne Fernandes ( USSE Bridge Crew 3 )
• Jake Foy ( USSE Bridge Crew 4 )
• Jodi Haynes ( USSE Bridge Crew 5 )
• Nathan Jean ( USSE Bridge Crew 6 )
• Tarun Keram ( USSE Bridge Crew 7 )
• J.P. Mulcaster ( USSE Bridge Crew 8 )
• Edwin Rodriguez ( USSE Bridge Crew 9 )
• Alex Rose ( USSE Bridge Crew 10 )
• Polina Soldatova ( USSE Bridge Crew 11 )
• Sarah Yu ( USSE Bridge Crew 12 )
• Ian Nsenga ( USSE Bridge Crew 13 )
• Natalia – Ashley Edner
• Kalara Alien VO – Sara Maria Forsberg
• Starfleet Official – Jeff Bezos

Second Unit [ ]

Dubai unit [ ], uncredited [ ].

• Fernanda Alcantara – Photo Still
• Halit Alptekin as USSE Crew
• Carlo Ancelotti as Yorktown doctor
• Justin Anthony as Swarm Soldier
• Nicole Anthony as USSE Bridge Crew
• Alika Autran as Franklin Crew
• Eric Banerd as Swarm Soldier
• Ness Bautista
• Jonathan Buckhouse as Swarm drone
• Ashley Edner as Pesca
• Chuka Ekweogwu as USSE Crew
• Lucius Fairburn as Blue Shirt / Red Shirt / Yellow Shirt
• Jabbz Farooqi as Lieutenant
• Rebecca Fielding – Extra: Dubai
• Justin Fortier as Swarm Soldier
• Calum Grant
• Ugnė Gražytė as FBI Agent
• Cindy Harlow as Vulcan ambassador
• Joel Harlow as Vulcan ambassador
• Rich Hill as USSE Bridge Crew
• Adam Horwitz
• Rebecca Husain as Enterprise crewmember
• Sorena Khanlou as Swarm Soldier
• Nick Langmead – Extra: Dubai
• James Lawson as Swarm Soldier
• Richard David Lecoin as Swarm Soldier
• Oqwe Lin as boy
• Simon MacIntyre as USSE Bridge Crew
• Trevor Mack as Enterprise crewmember
• Christian Mandel as Civilian / Starfleet Officer
• Natalie Moon as Control Tower Tech
• J.P. Mulcaster as Enterprise crewmember
• Kane Nelson as Swarm drone
• Gai-Lanne Pepper as Enterprise crewmember
• Werner Pretorius as Boltaan
• Marc Primiani as Enterprise crewmember
• Rihanne Quionn as Sulu's daughter
• Jeff Reyes as Swarm Soldier
• Harpreet Sandhu as USSE Bridge Crew
• Arlene Santana as USSE Bridge Crew
• Nick Satriano as Red Shirt Rescue Crew
• Jason Matthew Smith as Hendorff
• Bryce Soderberg as Satine
• Jamie Soricelli as Enterprise crewmember
• Adam Stone as Cabinet Member
• Justin Stone as Security
• Jaewon Suh as Swarm Soldier
• Nicole April Webster
• Natasha Young as USSE Bridge Crew
• Alan Yu as Swarm Soldier
• Sam Yunussov as Swarm Soldier
• Randall Cormier
• Angela Martine
• Meghan Noble
• Britni Peters
• Craig Smith
• Robert Tomlinson
• Laura Yanovich
• Purple-skinned alien girl
• Female Vulcan ambassador
• Male Vulcan ambassador

Stunt department [ ]

• Andrew Emilio DeCesare – Pre-Production stunt performer
• Alice Ford – Pre-Production stunt performer
• Jake Huang – Stunts

Unconfirmed [ ]

• Philip Chang – Stunt Performer
• Paul Lazenby – Stunt Performer/Stunt Rigger
• Don Lee – Stunts
• Brian Lydiatt – Stunt Rigger
• Dave Phillips – Utility Stunts
• Hugo Steele – Stunt Performer

Stand-ins [ ]

• Jade Pattenden – stand-in and photo double for Zoe Saldana
• Omar Adam – Production Assistant: Dubai
• Mike Aichholz – Assistant Accountant
• Faisal Al Kaabi
• Richie Alonzo – Creature Sculptor
• Francisco Alvarez – CG Artist: Double Negative
• Chyla Anderson – Film Score Vocalist
• George Antzoulides – Previsualization Artist: Proof Inc.
• Brandon Aquino – Camera department
• Chris Arnold – Art Department Assistant
• Jyoti Arora – Roto Artist: Double Negative
• Anoushka Babur – Production Intern: Dubai
• Chris Baer – Mold Maker
• Rico Bailey – Location Assistant: Dubai
• Kurt Barretto – Production Assistant: Dubai
• Heather W. Barth
• Alvaro Bataller – Digital Compositor: Double Negative
• Todd Bates – Mold Maker
• Ashley Bell – Second Assistant Director
• Dave Benediktson
• Babak Bina – 3D Artist: Double Negative
• Bryan Blair – Mold Maker
• Gerald Blaise – Concept Artist: ILM
• Roland Blancaflor – Silicone and Foam Casting Artist
• Jacob Bond – Best Boy Electric/Lighting Technician
• Phillip Joseph Boutté, Jr. – Costume Concept Artist
• Matt Bowler – Cyber Scanning 3D Artist: Clear Angle Studios LTD
• Andrea Brown – Extras Casting Director
• Nancy Anna Brown – Set Designer
• Lee J. Buckley – Techno Dolly Crane Operator
• Steve Buscaino – Silicone and Foam Casting Artist
• Norman Cabrera – Creature Sculptor
• Merve Cangokce – Makeup Artist: Dubai
• Brad Carlson – VP Physical Production: Paramount Pictures
• Stephen Carr – Personnel Driver: Chris Pine
• Michael Cawood – Previs Supervisor: Proof Inc.
• Jordane Chedotal – Art Department Assistant: Dubai
• Jason Claridge – Head Scenic Paint Coordinator
• Leigh Clarke – Unit Production Manager: Dubai
• Philip Coleman – Technocrane Operator
• Siobhán Condon – VFX Production Coordinator: Double Negative
• Robert Consing – Storyboard Artist
• Hamza Darbar
• Greg D'Auria – Editor
• Miranda Davidson – Extras Casting Director: Dubai
• Andrew Del Rosario – Set Decorator/Swing Gang Boss
• Francesco Dell'Anna – Digital Compositor: Double Negative
• Natasha Denis
• Nuwan de Zoysa – Key Assistant Location Manager: Dubai
• Kay Di Rezze – Assistant Accountant: Dubai
• Pranali Diwadkar – Assistant Set Decorator: Dubai
• Neville Dsouza – Transportation Coordinator: Dubai
• Olivier Dubard – Gerealist TD: Double Negative
• Denny Dugally – Art Director
• Matthew Duvall – Compositing Lead: Atomic Fiction
• Katerina Dzolganovski – CG Artist: Double Negative
• John Eaves – Concept Designer: Props
• Scotty Eugene Fields – Mold Maker
• Mohammad Ahmed Fikree – Intern
• Warren Flanagan – Concept Illustrator
• Tim Flattery – Concept Designer: Ships
• Christopher Ford – Generalist Technical Director: Double Negative
• Jeremiah Forkkio – Previs Artist: Bad Robot Productions
• Dave Freeman ' – Concept Artist: Double Negative
• Dionys Frei – Aerial Drone Pilot: DediCam
• Christopher Friend – Photogrammetry Cyberscanning Service: Clear Angle Studios LTD
• Natasha Gale – Costume Production Assistant
• Caroline Jimenez Garcia – Layout Technical Director: Double Negative
• Mayra Garcia
• Lyall Gardiner – Location Manager: Dubai
• Natasha Gerasimova – Art Director
• Paul Giordano – Assistant Location Manager
• Peter Gluck – Key Assistant Location Manager Overseas Pre-Production
• Ruslan Goj – Production Assistant: Dubai
• Liz Goldwyn – Set Designer
• Catarina Gonçalves – Rotoscopr Artist: Double Negative
• Ann Goobie – Location Manager
• Mike Gunther – Second Unit Director
• Kevin Haaland – Stand-in: John Cho
• John Halfman – Mold Maker
• Rupert Hancock – Set Dresser/DMX LED Lighting Technician
• Rod Haney – Rigging Grip
• Sean Hargreaves – Special Effects Aerial Unit Director/Senior Concept Designer
• Dan Hermansen – Art Director
• Earl Hibbert – Previsualization Supervisor: Proof Inc.
• David Holm – Transportation Coordinator
• Chen Kuang Hsu – Matchmove Artist: Atomic Fiction
• Dwight Huet – Construction Foreman: Dubai
• Daniel Ibeabuchi – Grip Assistant: Dubai
• Gregory Irwin – First Assistant "A" Camera Operator
• Mohammed Ismail – Electrician
• Faldela Issel
• James Jackson
• Jack Jenkins – Roto Artist: Double Negative
• Romain Joly – Visual Effects Artist: Double Negative
• Lee Joyner – Sculptor
• Doug Jung – Original Screenplay Writer
• Rochard Kamel – Location Manager: Dubai
• Pradeep Kankara
• Jenna Kerr – VFX Associate Producer: Atomic Fiction
• Sara Khangaroot – Visual Effects Production Manager
• Lukas Tiberio Klopfenstein – Roto/Prep Artist: Double Negative
• Vikram Kulkarni – Digital Compositor: Double Negative
• Josh Lange – Previsualization Artist: Proof Inc.
• Don Lanning – Creature Sculptor
• Jenne Lee – Art Department Coordinator: Dubai
• Simon Lee – Concept Artist/Sculptor
• Eric Lemay – Special Effects Technician
• Andrew Li – Assistant Art Director
• Gil Liberto – Head Mold Maker
• Peter Lliev
• Kew Lin – Rotoscope Artist: Double Negative
• Irma Lotosova – Wardrobe Stylist
• Don Macaulay – Supervising Art Director
• Abdulrahman Al Madani – Intern
• Garry Maddison – Colorist: Double Negative
• África Aguirre Martin – Studio/Data Management: Double Negative
• Victor Martinez – Concept Illustrator
• Patrick Mashaba – Camera and Electrical Department
• Alecia Maslechko – Production Assistant
• Josh McCarron – Silicone and Foam Casting Artist
• Robert Bruce McCleery – Second Unit Director of Photography
• Patrick McKay – Writer
• Michael McMullen – Set Security
• Uzair Merchant – Assistant Art Director: Dubai Unit
• Milos Milosevic – 2D Sequence Supervisor: Double Negative
• Regan Mitchell – Grip
• Andreas Maaninka – Lead Modeler: Double Negative
• Maxim Molchanov – Set Dresser
• Jeremy Mooney-Somers – Effects Technical Director: Double Negative
• David Moreau – Digital Set Designer
• Eva Morgan – Production Coordinator
• Tim Moshansky – Location Scout
• Andrew E.W. Murdock – Additional Photography Production Designer
• Ian Mussell – Grip
• Amit Narwani – Matchmove Artist: Double Negative
• Katrina Navassartian – Visual Effects Associate Producer: Double Negative
• Kane Nelson – SAE/Assistant to Movement Coach
• Michael Nickiforek – Special Effects Makeup Artist
• Alex Noble – Silicone and Foam Casting Artist
• Aaron Noordally – Prep/Paint Artist: Double Negative
• Brian Oberquell – Special Effects Artist: Center Forward Productions, Inc.
• Marc Opdycke – Creature Sculptor
• Joey Orosco – Creature Sculptor
• Paul Ozzimo – Concept Illustrator
• Peter Pacula – Best Boy Rigging Grip
• J.D. Payne – Writer
• Philip Pendlebury – Visual Effects Artist: Double Negative
• Manuel Perez – Digital Compositor: Double Negative
• Lauren E. Polizzi – Art Director
• Anne Porter – Digital Set Designer
• Xin Yi Puah – VXF Editor: Double Negative
• A. Martin Puentes – Character Animator
• Rushab Punmiya – Visual Effects Artist: Double Negative Vancouver
• Mandy Raubenheimer – Assistant Accountant
• Dominic Ridley – Photogrammetry Cyberscanning Service: Clear Angle Studios LTD
• Cassandra Rodriguez – Executive Assistant: Paramount Pictures
• Erick Rodriguez – Creature Sculptor
• Matt Rose – Creature Sculptor
• Mike Rotella – Creature Sculptor
• Raju Sadekar
• Johnnie Saiko – Mold Maker
• Rhys Salcombe – 3D Sequence Supervisor: Double Negative
• Rodolphe Saleh
• Janine Schiro – First Assistant Accountant
• Scott Schneider – Specialist Set Designer
• Benoit Terminet Schuppon – Layout Artist: Double Negative
• Melissa Shafiq – Makeup Artist: Dubai
• Daniel Sheridan – Location Assistant: Dubai
• Oksana Shumylo
• Andrew M. Siegel – Property Master
• Romain Simonnet – Generalist TD/Environment TD/Digital Matte Painter: Double Negative
• Miro Skandera – Previsualization Artist: Bad Robot Productions
• Craig W. Smith – VFX Editor
• Sean Stranks – Visual Effects Supervisor: Double Negative
• Peter Stratford – Set Designer
• Christo Streak – Accounts Assistant
• Alan Stucchi – Roto and Prep Site Supervisor-Compositor: Double Negative
• Marius Swart – Best Boy Grip: Dubai
• Raghav Tandon – Production Assistant: Bad Robot Productions
• Andy Taylor – Visual Effects Producer: Double Negative
• Rhonda Taylor – Second Assistant Director
• A.J. Teshin – Off-Camera Singer
• Miles Teves – Creature Sculptor
• Gareth Thomas
• Sarah Jane Thompson – Makeup Artist: Dubai
• Ty Thomson – Previz Artist
• Davide Tiraboschi – Aerial Drone Camera Operator: DediCam
• Roger Tortosa – Lighting and Senior Generalist TD: Double Negative
• George Max Trummler – Third Assistant Director: Dubai
• Pedro Valdez – Mold Maker
• Rebecca Valente – Editor: Bad Robot Productions
• Amy Vatanakul – Previsualization Artist: Bad Robot Productions
• A.J. Venuto – Mold Maker
• Karina Villagrana – Makeup department
• Cameron Ward – Previsualization Artist: Proof Inc.
• Callum Webster – Set Designer
• Lindsay Welff – Assistant Property Master: Dubai
• Neil West – Lookdev and Lighting Technical Director: Double Negative
• John Wrightson – Creature Sculptor
• Plamen Yosifov – Art Department Staff
• Lawrence Zalasky – Layout Technical Director: Double Negative
• Milena Zdravkovic – Concept Designer
• Monislav Zhelyazkov – Set Dresser
• Mohamed AbouAhmed – Scenic Artist: Dubai/Set Plasterer: Vancouver
• Brandon Allen – Special Effects Technician
• Samuel Allison – Extras Casting Assistant
• Anthony Almaraz – Key Costumer
• Salim Alrazouk – Art Director: Dubai
• Adam Al-Samarae – Location Assistant: Dubai
• Marcos Arias – Writer
• Scott Andrew Armstrong – Rigging Grip
• Tara Arnett – Graphic Designer
• Leona Atkinson – Construction Accountant
• Tania Baaklini – Hotel and Visa Coordinator: Dubai
• Eric Bachtiar – Data Operations
• Kristian Bakstad – Stand-in
• Kurt Barretto – Office Production Assistant
• Christopher Batty – Pre-visualization Supervisor: Kelvin Optical
• Bill Baxter – Electrician
• Eric Benedict – Previsualization Artist
• Richard Bennett – Storyboard Artist
• Kris Bergthorson – Concept Designer
• Justin Bertges – Costumer: Quantum Creation FX
• Uttham Bhalaykar – Roto Prep
• Jacob Bond – Rigging Electric Lighting Technician
• Jeff Bonny – Best Boy Rigging Grip
• Cole Boughton – Key Production Assistant
• Peter Boyer – Orchestrator
• Becky Brake – Supervising Location Manager
• Michael Brazelton – Compositing Supervisor
• Keith Brookes – Set Wireman
• Kurt Bruun – Assistant Property Master
• Shaun Bullied – Digital Asset Manager
• Zack Bunker – Digital Asset Manager
• Richard K. Buoen – Storyboard Artist
• Riki Butland – "C" Camera Operator
• Benjamin Cairns – Third Assistant Director
• Leslie Cairns – Cutter
• Loree Cameron – Graphic Designer
• Lanny Campbell – Key Ager/Dyer
• Matthew Campbell – Lead Greensman
• Max Cannella – Production Coordinator: Paramount Pictures
• Andrea Carter – Art Department Coordinator
• Chris Cavanaugh – Digital Imaging Technician
• David C.P. Chan – Action Sequence Contributor
• Julian Chapdelaine – Grip: Vancouver
• Jesse Chapman – Assistant Editor
• John Chaschowy – Lead Greensman
• Lynn Chaulk – Scenic Artist
• Clem Chen – Painter
• Tom Chen – Video Assist Assistant
• Michael A. Cheng – Photo Double/Stand-in
• Peter Chiang – Visual Effects Supervisor: Double Negative
• Stephen Cholakis – Driver: Set Decorations
• Steve Christensen – Art Director
• Genevieve Claire – Visual Effects Line Producer
• Kelly Coe – Special Effects Fabricator
• Steve Collins – Special Effects Fabricator
• Joey J. Cook III – Second Unit "A" Camera Operator
• Christian Cordella – Costume Concept Artist
• Dave Cory – First Assistant Editor
• Marcela Coto – Previs Coordinator: Proof Inc.
• Brian Cunningham – Concept Illustrator
• John Dale – Construction Coordinator
• Joe Datri – Hydrascope Technician
• Nicholas Dent – Grip
• Olivier Deveux – Digital Matte Painter: Atomic Fiction
• Allison Dillard – Production Safety
• Nick Diomis – Unit Driver
• Daren Dochterman – Prop Concept Artist
• James Doh – Storyboard Artist
• Whitney Donald – Researcher
• David Dowling – Property Master
• Kim Doyle – VFX Production Supervisor
• Cameron Drinkle – Video Coordinator
• Kirsten Dumont-Aubrey – Sculptor
• Rhonda Earick – Costumer Ager/Dyer
• Troy Eirich – Props
• Spencer Ennis – 2nd Unit 2nd Assistant "A" Camera Operator
• James Fantin – Accounting Clerk
• Lisle Fehlauer – Set Dresser
• Suzie Fox – Production Assistant
• Kimberly French – Still Photographer
• Jeff Frost – Concept Model Maker
• Jack Gauvreau – Head Sculptor
• Chris Gibbins – Second Unit First Assistant Camera Operator
• Selena Ginger – Payroll Accountant
• Betsy Glick – Costumer
• Sean Goojha – Assistant Art Director
• Dan Gorval – Best Boy Grip
• Dave Greenbaum – Driver: Hair and Makeup
• Caitlin Groves – Special Makeup Effects Artist
• Geoffrey Haley – Steadicam Operator: "A" Camera Operator
• Rupert Hancock – Set Dresser/Set Wireman
• Rod Haney – Rigging Grip Best Boy
• Michael Hanna – Lighting Technician/Set Wireman
• Tommy Harper – Executive Producer
• Melissa Harrison – Assistant Property Master
• Chris Hatchwell – Special Effects Assistant
• James L. Head – Grip
• David Heffler – Makeup FX Coordinator
• Chris Henderson – Animator: Props
• Amy Hetland – Set Costumer
• Rob Hinderstein – Special Makeup Effects Artist
• Steven Hoffart – Set Dresser
• Eliza Hooker – Set Decoration Coordinator
• David Husby – Sound Mixer
• Ron Irvine – Transportation Captain
• Elsey Israel – Trainee Assistant Director/Production Assistant
• Annie Jackson – Social Media Specialist: Bad Robot
• Anne Jacobsen – Production Accountant
• M. Faraz Javed – Production Staff
• Trevor Johann – Production Assistant
• Cameron Johnson – Assistant Colorist: Double Negative
• Meaghan Irene Johnson – Additional Trainee Assistant Director
• Dave Joshi – Video Coordinator
• Tex Kadonaga – Set Designer
• Kevin Kasper – Set Dresser
• Leon Keegan – Facilities Captain: Dubai
• Joel Kennedy – Third Assistant Director
• Daniel Castle King – Production Secretary: Los Angeles
• Richard Klein – International Political Advisor
• Scott Kozak – Grip Rigger
• Scott Kukurudz – Additional Third Assistant Director
• Tracy Lai – Special Makeup Effects Artist
• Janet Lane – Payroll Clerk
• Vince Laxton – Set Wireman
• Ken Lebre – Senior Dailies Producer
• Michelle Lee – First Assistant Accountant
• Sarah Lemmon – Lighting Data Coordinator
• Terry Lewis – Lead Dresser
• Sandy Lindala – Prosthetics Coordinator
• Stephen Richard Lofstrom – Stand-in: Zachary Quinto
• Nathan Longest – Propmaker
• Spencer Louttit – Assistant Property Master
• Shawn Luke – Set Dresser
• Rohan Lyal – Head Greensman
• Jessica Lythgoe-Green – Canadian Costume Supervisor
• Mark MacDonald – Office Production Assistant
• Richard MacDonald – Lighting Technician
• Harlow MacFarlane – Special Makeup Effects Artist
• Boris Maganic – Sculptor
• Jacqueline Makkee – Special Effects Technician: Film Illusions
• Jeff Markwith – Set Designer
• Andrew Masterson – Helicopter Pilot: Dubai
• Nick Mather – Set Dresser
• Sarah Mather – Second Assistant Camera Operator
• Brian Maxwell – Trainee Assistant Director
• Carol McConnaughey – Unit Publicist
• Andrew Lee McConnell – Set Designer
• Christopher McDonald (editor) – Dailies Operator
• Michael McLellan – Second Unit Key Grip
• Curtis McParland – Special Thanks
• Shane Meehan – Roto Supervisor
• Himanshu Meena – Senior Matchmove Artist
• Mark Mentiply – Special Effects Technician
• J.J. Mestinsek – Scenic Paint Foreman
• Valeria Migliassi Collins – Script Supervisor
• Dave Miller – Driver: Cast
• Juhlene Moller – Payroll Accountant
• Ryan Monro – Dolly Grip
• Roderick Dryden Morrison – Production Assistant
• D. Martin Myatt – Assistant Property Master
• C. Michael Neely – Previsualization Artist: Proof Inc.
• Andy Nettleton – Helicopter Pilot: Dubai
• Christopher Newman – Matchmove Artist: Prime Focus
• Kieu Nguyen – Head Cutter
• Meghan L. Noble – First Assistant Editor
• Jordan Nounnan – Previsualization Artist: Proof Inc.
• Ron Novak – Set Dresser
• Timothy Oakley – Prop Fabricator
• Carrie O'Bray – Transportation Co-Captain
• Susan O'Hara – Costume Set Supervisor
• Brad Oleksy – Grip
• Martin Ostrom – Construction Crew/Lead Laborer
• Harry E. Otto – Art Director
• Ken Palkow – Prop Fabricator
• Robert A. Pandini – Hair Stylist
• Jessica Parks – Post-Production Supervisor
• Eric C. Pike – Production Controller
• Douglas Plasse – Second Unit First Assistant Director
• Charles Porlier – Special Makeup Effects Artist
• Emily Putz – Special Effects Assistant
• Andrea Quaglio – First Assistant "C" Camera Operator: Dubai
• Paul Rabjohns – Music Editor
• Aline Rajan-Harjani – Transportation Coordinator
• Yesi Ramirez – Casting Associate
• Jim Ramsay – Set Designer
• Zina Richardson – Costume Buyer
• Katelyn Rodgers – Specialty Costumer
• Christopher S. Ross – Concept Illustrator
• Aja Kai Rowley – Art Department Assistant
• Tyler Ruocco – Assistant Editor
• Keith Saayman – Libra Technician
• Nava R. Sadan – Costume Supervisor
• Sonya Savova – Set Designer
• Tysen Schieber – Boom Operator
• Douglas J. Scott – Art Department Assistant
• Anna Seltzer – Costumer
• Trey Shaffer – Graphic Textile Designer
• Brian Shaw – Second Unit Camera Trainee
• Hugh Sicotte – Concept Artist
• Dennis Simard – Lead Set Dresser
• Tim Simonec – Orchestrator
• Eira Katrine Sletbak – Assistant Production Office Coordinator: Dubai
• Dane Allan Smith – Visual Effects Producer: Daneiam, Inc.
• Jeremy Stanbridge – Art Director
• Vincent Stander – Production Assistant
• Irena Stepic – Assistant Costume Designer
• Aaron Stewart – Lighting Technician
• Bryan Sutton – Set Designer
• Sophia Tapia – Payroll Accountant
• James Tavet – Matchmove Artist: Atomic Fiction
• Chris Tilton – Orchestrator
• Khanh Trance – Special Makeup Effects Hair Artist
• Stacy L. Tyson – Costumer
• Alex Van Nieuwkuyk – Dailies Operator
• Alexander Vegh – Pre-Visualization Supervisor: Proof Inc. /Second Unit Director
• Spencer Village – Rigging Lighting Technician
• Alan Villanueva – Costume Concept Artist
• Estelle Vockerodt – Assistant Accountant
• Paul Wagner – Props
• Thomas Walker – Second Unit Digital Utility
• Stephanie Walker-Wells – Production Supervisor
• Heather Wasylchuk – Assistant Special Effects Buyer
• Juniper Watters – Sound Utility
• Beth Welch – Second Unit Third Assistant Director
• Randall D. Wilkins – Set Designer
• Allen Williams – Concept Artist
• Joe Wolkosky – Set Designer
• Amos Wong – Special Effects Electronics
• Sauyan Wong – Data i/o Manager
• Steve Woroniecki – Supervising Location Manager
• Jane Wu – Storyboard Artist
• Gary Young – Set Sculptor
• Khaled Zaazouh – Aerial Coordinator: Dubai
• Mariela Zapata – Set Costumer/Stand-in
• Lye Zechari – Matchmove Artist: Double Negative
• Brad Zehr – Special Effects Set Supervisor
• Jason Zorigian – Production Coordinator: Los Angeles

Companies [ ]

• April Webster & Associates – US Talent Casting
• Atomic Fiction – Visual Effects Company
• Audiolink Radio Communications – Walkie Talkies
• Center Forward Productions, Inc. – Production Company
• Clark & Page Casting – Canada Talent Casting
• Clear Angle Studios LTD – Visual Effects Company: Cyber Scanning
• Codex Digital – Digital Recording Equipment
• Cool Air Rentals LTD
• Daneiam, Inc. – Special Effects Company
• DediCam – Aerial Drones
• Double Negative – Visual Effects Company
• Entertainment Partners Canada – Payroll Services
• Film Illusions – Special Effects Company
• Kelvin Optical – Visual Effects Company
• K/O Paper Products – Production Company
• Miranda Davidson Studios – Extras Casting: Dubai
• Otto Nemenz International – Camera Equipment Contractor
• Prime Focus – Visual Effects Company
• Proof Inc. – Pre-Visualization Company
• Quantum Creation FX – Special Effects Company
• Sessions Payroll Management – Extras Payroll Services
• Vex Motorsports – Vehicle parts
• Star Trek Beyond (soundtrack)
• Star Trek Beyond (DVD)
• Star Trek Beyond (Blu-ray)
• Star Trek Beyond (Blu-ray 3D)
• Star Trek Beyond (4K Ultra HD)

References [ ]

2164 ; 2204 ; 2263 ; acid ; Akima's species ; Ancient Ones ; Abronath ; Altamid ; Armstrong -type ( starship ); Attack on Krall's base ; Attack on Yorktown ; away team ; backseat driver ; barn dance ; base of operation ; Battle of Altamid ; Beastie Boys ; bed ; bedside manner ; bee ; birthday ; birthday party ; Book (device) ; bread ; camouflage ; Federation cargo shuttle ( cargo shuttles ); cauterization ; classical music ; cliff ; closed network ; closet ; coat hanger ; Code 1-Alpha-Zero ; color ; commodore ; compression chamber ; Constitution -class ( starship ); Co-Co's species ; crash landing ; critical alert ; dark ages ; dilithium chamber ; distress call ; Earth-Romulan War ; EPS ; EPS conduit ; Enterprise , USS ; Enterprise -A, USS ; Enhancement sequencing unit ; environmental processor ; episode ; escape pod ; excellency ; excrement ; fan ; favoritism ; Fibonan ; Fibonan High Council ; Fibonan Republic ; Federation archive ; " Fight the Power "; fire ; five-year mission ; Franklin , USS ; Freedom -class ; Gagarin Radiation Belt ; General Council ; gift ; Glenfiddich ; goggles ; goo ; green ; headband ; hell ; Hewlett Packard Enterprise ; horse ; horse and buggy ; horseshit ; IFF ; image refractor ; inertial dampener ; Jaylah's drinks ; Jaylah's family ; Jaylah's species ; Jaylah stick ; Kalara's crew ; Kalara's escape pod ; Kalara's ship ; Kelvin pod ; Kevin ; Kirk, George ; Kirk, Winona ; Krall's base ; Krall's command ship ; language analysis ; locker ; Lordy ; Magellan probe ; Manas' language ; manual override ; manual release room ; medical school ; megahertz ; memorial ; military ; military service ; Military Assault Command Operations ; monorail ; monstrosity ; mortality ; murder ; Natalia ; nebula ; Necro Cloud ; Necro Cloud sector ; New Vulcan ; Non-Federation ; optimism ; Park ; polarized hull plating ; police ; protoplaser ; Public Enemy ; pulse phaser cannon ; puncture ; PX70 motorcycle ; Quarantine (device) ; quarters ; radio ; refractor belt ; renting ; roasting ; romance ; Romulan ale ; Russia ; " Sabotage "; Salcombe , USS ; San Francisco Fleet Yards ; safety area ; saucer ; saucer separation ; Saurian brandy ; Scotch ; Scott's grand nanny ; Shakespeare, William ; Schlerm ; shrapnel ; shuttlepod ; sneeze ; snow globe ; space lane ; spatial torpedo ; Spock (prime) ; stabilizer ; star cocktail ; Starfleet Academy ; Starfleet Charter ; Starfleet uniform (mid 2160s) ; Stargazer , USS ; Starship-class ; subspace link ; Swarm drone ; Swarm gun ; Swarm ship ; Takayama -type shuttlecraft ( unnamed 1 , and 2 ; ; survival kit ; Teenax ; Teenaxi ; Teenaxi Delegation ; Teenaxi symbols ; Thasus ; theft ; thief ; toast ; tracking device ; train ; treaty ; turbolift ; uncharted space ; United Earth Military ; United Federation of Planets ; universal translator ; unnamed plants ; vein ; VHF ; vice admiral ; vodka ; vokaya ; Vulcan ; Vulcan ; warp coil ; welcome mat ; Wilbur's species ; workbee ; wormhole ; wristwatch ; Yorktown ; Yorktown Central Plaza ; Yorktown database ; Yorktown Headquarters ; Yorktown satellites ; Yorktown sentry ship ; Yorktown tree ; Xindi wars

Graphic references [ ]

Altamid system ; ångström ; Federation database ; gray mode ; Kelvin , USS ; Medical shuttle 37

Balthazar M. Edison's personnel file [ ]

2255 ; boot camp officer ; captain ; carrier ; corvette ; cruiser ; derelict vessel ; diplomatic vessel ; escort vessel ; frigate ; Ginwald, T. ; hospital ship ; inventory log ; Iowa ; maintenance log ; mining vessel ; missing in action ; Murrysville ; Pennsylvania ; Pine, T. ; Riverside Shipyard ; science vessel ; Scott ; scout ; Starfleet Administration ; Starfleet Communications ; Starfleet Diplomatic Corps ; Starfleet Engineering ; Starfleet Intelligence ; Starfleet Medical ; Starfleet medical courier ; Starfleet Operations ; Starfleet Research ; Starfleet Science , Starfleet Security ; Starfleet Tactical ; supply vessel ; support vessel ; survey vessel ; transport vessel ; United Earth Military

Diagnostic wrap display [ ]

cellular collapse ; critical alert ; foreign substance ; organ failure

Public transporter menu [ ]

Arts / Culture ; Attractions ; Bars / Nightclubs ; Gardens ; Museums ; Parks /Nature; Restaurants ; sightseeing ; zone

Starbase Yorktown memorial wall (unseen material) [ ]

Al Kaabi, Faisal ; Al Razouk, Salim ; Bailey, Rico ; Barretto, Kurt ; Barth, Heather W. ; Benediktson, Dave ; Bitbit, Reynaldo ; Chedotal, Jordane ; Clarke, Leigh ; Darbar, Hamza ; Davidson, Miranda ; Denis, Natasha ; de Zoysa, Nuwan ; Di Rezze, Kay ; Diwadkar, Pranali ; Esmaeili, Samira ; Fisher, Rob ; Gale, Natasha ; Garcia, Mayra ; Gardiner, Lyall ; Gluck, Peter ; Goj, Ruslan ; Haley, Sean ; Haney, Rod ; Heimer, Mandy R. ; Hermansen, Dan ; Huet, Dwight ; Ibebuchi, Daniel ; Ismail, Mohammed ; Issel, Faldela ; Jackson, James ; Johnston, Sam ; Kamel, Rochard ; Kankara, Pradeep ; Kozak, Scott ; Lee, Jenne ; Lliev, Peter ; Lemay, Eric ; Lotosova, Irma ; MacAuley, Scott ; Mashaba, Patrick ; McMaster, Sam ; Mitchell, Regan ; Molchanov, Maxim ; Mussell, Ian ; O'Souza, Neville ; Pacula, Peter ; Riley, Simon ; Sacco, Sandrina ; Sadekar, Raju ; Saleh, Rodolphe ; Schiro, Janine ; Shumylo, Oksana ; Swart, Marius ; Thaler, Scott ; Thomas, Gareth ; Welff, Lindsay ; Yosifov, Plamen ; Zhelyazko, Monislav

Spock Prime's holophoto – Senior staff of the USS Enterprise -A [ ]

Chekov, Pavel ; Enterprise (prime), USS ; Enterprise -A (prime), USS ; Kirk, James T. ; McCoy, Leonard ; Scott, Montgomery ; Sulu, Hikaru ; Spock Prime; Uhura, Nyota

Spock Prime's obituary [ ]

2230 ; 2263; ambassador ; executive officer ; second officer ; stardate ; Enterprise , USS ; Enterprise , USS

Unreferenced material [ ]

Andorian herpes ; Chapel ; Cialis ; Deep C-Zar ; gangorian clap ; Hilts ; jumper ; Romaine

Deleted graphics references [ ]

744 ; 752 ; Acamar I ; Acamar III ; AF006 ; AF014 ; Alpha Cygni ; Andoria ; Andorian ; Andorian embassy ; Andorian system ; Arcturus ; argon ; bathymetry ; BDR-258 ; BDR-529 ; Bolarus ; Bolarus II ; carbon dioxide ; Centauri ; CGM-852 ; Cygnus II ; Cygnus VII ; Cygnus system ; exobase ; FGNI-592 ; GHD-258 ; Habitability Index ; helium ; JL006 ; JL008 ; KE091 ; Kepler-22 ; magnetosphere ; mesosphere ; NCV-1248 ; NCV-1539 ; NCV-1690 ; neon ; nitrogen ; Organian ; oxygen ; Rigellian ; Risian ; Sol ; student officer ; Tellarite ; thermosphere ; Translink ; troposphere ; Xindi

External links [ ]

• Star Trek Beyond at StarTrek.com
• Star Trek Beyond at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• Star Trek Beyond at Wikipedia
• Star Trek Beyond at the Internet Movie Database

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‘Star Trek Beyond’ Review: A Spectacular Movie About Nothing

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Despite an expansive universe stretched across over a dozen feature films and numerous television series, the appeal of “Star Trek” is pretty straightforward: a motley group of colorful characters hurtle through mini-adventures in deep space, sustained as much by their chemistry as the variety of alien civilizations in their path. The first two films in the rebooted franchise attempted to raise the stakes with various cataclysmic events threatening its cast of fresh faces, but “ Star Trek Beyond ” goes back to the television roots. Spectacular as it looks, this is a $150 million blockbuster about nothing.

A lighter, funnier effort than the previous installments, “Star Trek Beyond” reflects a changing of the guard. With JJ Abrams passing the baton to Justin Lin , the latest entry plays like a CGI-heavy “Fast and the Furious” movie set in the future, with fancy gadgetry and fast-paced showdowns taking prominence over plot. Simon Pegg does double-duty, returning to the role of Scotty and co-writing the screenplay with Doug Jung. The result has Lin’s eye for outstanding set pieces and Pegg’s ear for injecting familiar genre tropes with wit. There’s an odd disconnect between the movie’s undercooked conflict and its epic scale, to the point where it barely exists as more than a series of flashy moments. But its trivial qualities come as something of a relief — this is a movie engineered to avoid overextending its allure, which differs greatly from so many of its summer movie peers that do exactly that.

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The overall inconsequential nature of “Star Trek Beyond” stands in stark contrast to 2013’s sprawling “Star Trek Into Darkness,” in which rising Starfleet leader Captain Kirk ( Chris Pine ) at one point loses his job, and at another briefly loses his life. At the beginning of “Star Trek Beyond,” he’s faced with a more immediate issue: Boredom. Three years into a planned five-year mission to explore the cosmos, the Captain explains in his starlog intro that boldly going where no man has gone before can get awfully redundant sometimes.

Lin’s camera glides beautifully through the Starship Enterprise, capturing the various familiar members of the crew — Spock (Zachary Quinto), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban), Sulu (John Cho), Scotty, and Chekhov (the late Anton Yelchin, sadly given little to do in a thankless role). They’re all still there, pressing buttons, sharing drinks, beaming about on unspecified missions. “What is it we’re trying to accomplish?” Kirk wonders, and the answer just dangles there.

But then just enough happens to generate the semblance of high stakes: A mysterious alien object stored in the ship’s hull generates the interest of the villainous Krall (Idris Elba, under layers of makeup that suggest Klingon by way of triceratops), a criminal leader of unknown origins who invades the ship and uses his mechanical space army to take down the starship. The ensuing crash sequence drags on for minutes on end, unfolding as a breathless series of daring maneuvers, flying bodies and flaming debris that, for a brief moment, suggest real peril for everyone involved.

Unfortunately, once the Enterprise stops moving, the movie grinds to a halt as well. Lin grounds the crew on a boring planet alongside a lame bad guy. Krall’s eerie ability to sap energy from his prisoners receives just one tossed-off scene, and the reasons behind his evil intentions receive only a pithy explanation in the final act. Much of the movie finds various members of the Starship roaming the planet trying to figure out ideas for escaping it. This kind of scenario often sustained single episodes of the original show, but struggles to congeal as a single 142 minute package.

Per usual, some interactions generate more sparks than others. At first alone in the woods, Scotty comes across fierce survivalist Jaylah (Sofia Boutella), a pale-faced warrior apparently inspired by Jennifer Laurence’s individualistic teen in “Winter’s Bone.” Jaylah’s not the most original ass-kicker around, but her ability to manipulate invisibility fields and bound about the woodsy terrain with ease provides the movie with a nice burst of attitude.

The rest of the cast just toys around, making it clear just how much these movies are driven by personalities. Much has been made in news reports about the decision to turn Sulu gay, a revelation that fills approximately three seconds of screen time. That’s as it should. Even as the last two films emphasized Kirk’s challenges with his father’s legacy in the captain’s chair, the core “Star Trek” cast have very little in the way of backstories. They’re defined by their exchanges with each other: Forget about Spock’s complicated backstory as a member of the Vulcan race; the stone-faced character’s big challenge in “Star Trek Beyond” is his relationship troubles with Uhura, and when he winds up stranded on the planet alongside the surly Dr. McCoy, the doctor takes on new duties as a shrink.

When they’re done feuding and teasing each other, the movie turns back to its bare-bones plot. Eventually, the survivors gather at a ramshackle base to plot a means of overtaking the Starship from the bad guys, yielding another set piece — this one based around motorcycles and jump cables — before Kirk finds an excuse to blast “Sabotage” for a breezy sequence that plays like a 3D “Space Invaders.”

Toss in a few more vibrant alien species and geeky one-liners (“There’s no relative direction in space, you have only yourself”) and voil à : While “Star Trek Beyond” lacks a center, it compensates with an endless parade of distractions. When the movie moves along at a breezy clip, it’s partly because it feels so purposeless. The central threat revolves around the most explicit MacGuffin in recent memory (a box that contains some enigmatic thing of unknown destructive potential that many different people want to get their hands on), and yet that’s enough to let the strengths stand out, particularly the stunning effects work.

The massive space port Yorktown is a swirling helix of human activity, while the Enterprise itself speeds through hyperspace in shiny closeups that would have been unthinkable just a few years back. As a franchise that celebrates technological progress, it’s only appropriate that the “Star Trek” movies have become a shining example of just that.

Nevertheless, this playful, meandering saga ultimately arrives at a bland third act finale featuring the so-called “Climbing Killer Syndrome” in which the antagonist must irrationally flee to an inescapable high elevation while explaining his entire motive. Toss in a tenuous connection to some earlier “Star Trek” entries to keep the series’ street cred in check and everybody gets to go home happy.

Nothing about this polished movie suggests the slightest attempt to reinvent the wheel. If “Star Trek Beyond” existed outside the arena of reboots and sequels that mandated its existence, the movie’s casual air might be downright radical for such an extensive production. Instead, it’s just a sturdy riff on the same old routine.

“Star Trek Beyond” opens nationwide on July 21. 

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By Edmond Tran on July 15, 2016 at 5:37PM PDT

After Star Trek Into Darkness, the rebooted Star Trek universe was starting to feel a little boring. In Star Trek Beyond , Kirk and Spock are bored too. They’re bored of going where no one has gone before, and want for something different. Conveniently, Beyond steers away from the convoluted space-faring stories we’ve seen in the previous films. Instead it feels more like a palate-cleansing monster-of-the-week-style escapade, and it’s every bit as entertaining in its own right.

To get there, Star Trek Beyond takes some drastic measures. The events that occur during the film’s first quarter dramatically frees the plot of a driving narrative device from the last two films. A brutal and unknown alien enemy is introduced in the process, and the Enterprise crew eventually become stranded and separated from each other on an unknown planet. Forced outside of their comfort zones, the rest of the film sees Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and company scurrying to survive, improvising with their ingenuity, and forging new alliances to try and gain footholds against seemingly unbeatable foes.

As conventional as it may sound, this setup works well. By dividing characters, Beyond manages to spend just enough time with each major Enterprise officer to give audiences a proper sense of motivation for each, as well as taking time to introduce Jaylah (Sofia Boutella), a survivor they encounter along the way. The film does not assume knowledge of these characters, and as a result, each hero’s personality is painted clearly but not bluntly--something director Justin Lin executes well.

This arrangement also allows the film to balance scenes of exposition, action, and its increased amounts of humor more easily, although some story branches are more enjoyable than others. The mismatched couples of Scotty (Simon Pegg) and Jaylah, as well as Spock (Zachary Quinto) and McCoy (Karl Urban) provide Beyond’s more amusing scenarios. The characters shine as they jaunt through planetary hijinks and clashes of culture, laying the foundations for the film’s more memorable, lighthearted tones.

Kirk and Chekov (Anton Yelchin) on the other hand, are left to deal with the film’s far less compelling MacGuffin thread. Kirk displays some cunning and takes part in the majority of action scenes, but the two are otherwise left to turn the dull cogs of exposition. Sulu (John Cho) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana) are annoyingly restricted from flaunting their nature too much, since the situations they’re put in don’t afford them much room to do so. Most disappointing of all is Idris Elba’s role as Krall, the leader of Star Trek Beyond’s antagonistic enemies. Elba’s usual intimidating finesse is mostly lost behind layers of makeup and prosthetics, ultimately making him just another big, loud guy who really wants to get his hands on the thing the heroes happen to have.

Most of the Enterprise crew’s encounters with Krall and his cronies take place planetside. This leads to a sizable number of close-quarter battles in Beyond , and unfortunately for the viewer, these scenes are difficult to watch. The hand-to-hand fights are shot too close to the action and edited far too erratically, making it impossible to follow the flow and dynamism of the conflicts. Lin’s direction here is a little too fast, too furious. One of these fights broke out in darkness, and immediately made me wonder why the film even bothered when Scotty, Spock and McCoy could have be delivering more chuckle-worthy lines instead.

Action scenes that embrace the film's sci-fi setting are much stronger. The scenario for the final encounter is positively dizzying, and scenes involving the overwhelmingly fearsome enemy starfighters are satisfyingly devastating. Newcomer Jaylah also brings with her unique gadgets that add a playfulness to clashes with enemies.

However, despite the presence of all the interesting, futuristic technology, the most definitively memorable part of Star Trek Beyond is the almost flippant incorporation of 20th-Century Earth technology into the film. The explanation of their presence in the on-screen world is flimsy at best, but the way these devices are used to service the plot is, to put it lightly, hilariously baffling. At one point the film reaches a height of ridiculousness so great, it spills over into awe-inspiring. Although this plot device could easily turn viewers off, it does serve as an astute exclamation mark to emphasise Beyond’s more eccentric direction.

Beyond tries not to retread old ground, and its resulting tone and high moments can feel unexpected. The film shirks a number of Star Trek reboot tropes, and there are moments that feel more like Guardians of the Galaxy than Star Trek. But the time spent with the Enterprise crew on this fun, lively adventure still feels valuable, leaving you eager to see them get back on deck to search the galaxy for more escapades like it.

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Star Trek Beyond is a 2016 American science fiction action film and the sequel to 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness . The thirteenth film in the Star Trek film franchise, Star Trek Beyond is also the third installment in the alternate-timeline reboot series. Directed by Justin Lin from a screenplay by Doug Jung and Simon Pegg (based on the series of the same name created by Gene Roddenberry), the film stars Chris Pine , Zachary Quinto , Simon Pegg , Karl Urban , Zoe Saldana , John Cho , and Anton Yelchin , all of whom are reprising their roles from the previous film. Idris Elba and Sofia Boutella join the film's principal cast for this installment, which was released in North America on July 22, 2016.

Star Trek Beyond coincided with the 50th anniversary celebration of the Star Trek franchise. The film is dedicated to the memory of Anton Yelchin , who died a month prior to the film's release, as well as fellow Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy , who died during pre-production.

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Three years into its five year mission, the USS Enterprise arrives at Starbase Yorktown , a massive space station, for resupply and shore leave for her crew. Struggling to find continued meaning in the endless nature of their mission of exploration, Captain James Kirk has applied for a promotion to Vice Admiral and commanding officer of Yorktown . He recommends Spock as the new captain of the Enterprise . Meanwhile, Hikaru Sulu reunites with his family, Montgomery Scott works to keep the ship operational, and Spock and Nyota Uhura amicably end their relationship; Spock also receives word from New Vulcan that Ambassador Spock (Spock's future self from the original timeline) has died.

The Enterprise is dispatched on a rescue mission at short notice after an escape pod drifts out of a nearby uncharted nebula. The survivor, Kalara, claims her ship is stranded on Altamid, a planet within the nebula. The rescue turns into an ambush when the Enterprise is quickly torn apart by a massive swarm of small ships. Krall and his crew board the ship, and unsuccessfully search for a relic called an Abronath that Kirk had obtained for a failed diplomatic mission. Krall captures and removes many crew members from the ship. Kirk then orders the crew to abandon ship as the Enterprise 's saucer section hurtles towards the planet.

On the planet's surface, Sulu, Uhura, and other survivors are captured by Krall. Kirk and navigator Pavel Chekov, accompanied by Kalara, locate the wrecked saucer section. Kalara is discovered to be Krall's ally when she tries to retrieve the Abronath. To escape Krall's soldiers, Kirk activates the still-functional thrusters, causing the saucer to lurch forward, crushing Kalara. Meanwhile, a wounded Spock and Dr. Leonard McCoy search for other survivors. Spock confides to McCoy that he intends to leave Starfleet to continue the late Ambassador Spock's work on New Vulcan. Meanwhile, Scott is rescued by Jaylah, a scavenger who previously escaped Krall's encampment. She takes Scott to her makeshift home, the grounded USS Franklin , an early Starfleet vessel reported missing over a century earlier. Scott is reunited with Kirk, Chekov, McCoy, and Spock. Using the ship as a base, they plot to raid Krall's camp and transport the crew to the Franklin , then escape the planet in the repaired ship. Meanwhile, Krall coerces Ensign Syl to hand over the Abronath that she had kept hidden for Kirk. The Abronath is the missing half of an ancient bioweapon, created by the planet's original inhabitants which can disintegrate any humanoid. With the device complete, Krall intends to attack Yorktown and kill its inhabitants, and using its advanced technology, go on to attack the Federation. Kirk and the others free the crew as Krall launches into space with the bioweapon, leading his drone fleet to Yorktown .

The Starfleet crew pursues Krall in the Franklin . Scott transports Spock and McCoy into one of Krall's drone ships. After dispatching the pilot, they learn that VHF transmissions can disrupt Krall's communications. Matching the drone fleets frequency and using the 'classical' song "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys, they destroy almost the entire fleet. Krall and his three surviving ships crash in Yorktown . As Krall flees into the city, Uhura and Kirk discover from the Franklin 's logs that 'Krall' is actually Balthazar Edison, the former captain of the Franklin . A pre-Federation human soldier, Edison became disillusioned with the newly founded Federation, rejecting its principles of unity and cooperation with former enemies. When he and his crew were stranded on Altamid by a rogue wormhole, he believed the Federation had deliberately abandoned them. The three survivors prolonged their lives with the technology of the planet's extinct natives (at the cost of their human physiology and their numerous victim's lives), and repurposed that species' dormant drone workers into the swarm. Krall now plans to destroy the Federation and resume galactic conflict. Kirk pursues Krall into Yorktown's ventilation system, where Krall activates the bioweapon. Before it can be unleashed, Kirk ejects the weapon and Krall into space. Spock and McCoy save Kirk moments before he is also blown into open space.

Kirk decides to remain as a captain and Spock chooses to stay in Starfleet and resumes his relationship with Uhura. Jaylah is accepted into Starfleet Academy based on Kirk's recommendation. As the crew celebrates Kirk's birthday, they view the construction of their new ship, USS Enterprise -A, and after its completion, they depart on their next mission.

• Chris Pine as Captain James T. Kirk
• Zachary Quinto as Commander Spock
• Zoe Saldana as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura
• Karl Urban as Lieutenant Commander Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy
• Simon Pegg as Lieutenant Commander Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
• John Cho as Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu
• Anton Yelchin as Ensign Pavel Chekov
• Idris Elba as Krall
• Sofia Boutella as Jaylah
• Joe Taslim as Manas
• Lydia Wilson as Kalara
• Deep Roy as Keenser

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Star Trek Beyond has received positive reviews from critics, with many praising the performances, action scenes, musical score, visual effects, and the film's emotional tributes to Yelchin and Nimoy. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 84% "Certified Fresh", based on 150 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, " Star Trek Beyond continues the franchise's post-reboot hot streak with an epic sci-fi adventure that honors the series' sci-fi roots without skimping on the blockbuster action." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 70 out of 100, based on 45 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

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• E01 The Man Trap
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• E21 The Return of the Archons
• E22 Space Seed
• E23 A Taste of Armageddon
• E26 Errand of Mercy
• E28 The City on the Edge of Forever
• E29 Operation: Annihilate!
• E01 Amok Time
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• E06 The Doomsday Machine
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• E09 Metamorphosis
• E11 Friday's Child
• E12 The Deadly Years
• E14 Wolf in the Fold
• E15 The Trouble With Tribbles
• E16 The Gamesters of Triskelion
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The first show in the Star Trek franchise. The origin of the show came when Gene Roddenberry was looking to write hard-hitting political and moral commentary and could not do so with the regular dramas of the time. He deduced that by creating a science fiction show borrowing heavily from the film Forbidden Planet , he could slip in such commentary disguised as metaphors for the various current events. As such he pitched Star Trek to the networks as a merging of the two most popular genres of the time, science fiction anthologies and Westerns, into the original " Wagon Train to the Stars ".

While troublesome to produce, it was a major Trope Maker , especially in Science Fiction (each of the three main characters has a trope named after them - and that's just for starters!). The cast was a dynamic mix of ethnicities and cultures, and while the focus was nearly always on Kirk , Spock and McCoy they still had a Russian , an Asian and a black African woman in positions of responsibility, authority and respect. It has been discussed by the cast members that near everyone in Hollywood wanted to be a part of Star Trek because of the steps forward it was making. In particular George Takei said that almost every Asian actor wanted to be Sulu because it was said Sulu would not be required to use an Asian accent or engage in martial arts. This also resulted in attracting multiple high-profile guest stars and guest writers, including Harlan Ellison , Theodore Sturgeon and Richard Matheson .

In some ways the show was way ahead of its time ; in others, hopelessly mired in The Sixties . The women wore go-go boots and miniskirts , and usually only appeared in the roles of assistants and secretaries (although at least some of that was due to Executive Meddling ). And while the visual design was ambitious, the actual production quality has not aged well.

Varied widely in quality from episode to episode and from season to season, depending upon who was writing. An episode chosen at random can be anything from high camp to geopolitical allegory to genuinely intelligent drama, and is likely to be at least two out of those three.

Common plots:

• Alternatively, the Planet of Hats will be a Cargo Cult worshiping a very theatrical god who turns out to be a computer . Kirk will show the natives how to outgrow such silly superstitions by dropping a Logic Bomb on it.
• The ship encounters a Negative Space Wedgie , which is defeated through Techno Babble or Deus Ex Nukina .
• A Sufficiently Advanced Alien is unkind, possibly putting Humanity on Trial .
• Our heroes get infected by The Plague and have to defeat it while being adversely affected.
• A godlike being will stow away or end up on the ship and wreak havoc with the crew, often manipulating laws of physics/reality or screwing with people's minds (examples: Charlie Evans, Gary Mitchell, the salt creature from "The Man Trap", the disease from " The Naked Time ", Id-Kirk, Kirk Android, and that's just in season one the first seven episodes).
• A Mad Scientist has plans for the crew. If alien, the scientist may be attempting to understand humans . If it's a female alien , she will ask Kirk What Is This Thing You Call Love? . He will show her .
• Kirk matches wits with a Worthy Opponent .

Some people are unaware of the original Trek pilot featuring Captain Pike (who would be a character in the Abrams movie ) played by Jeffrey Hunter, and Majel Barrett as first officer . The pilot was praised for a good story but was considered "too cerebral" and not as action packed as the network wanted to market it. This resulted in a near entire-cast replacement for a second pilot episode except for Spock. In fact Doctor McCoy didn't appear until after the second pilot was filmed. However, that first pilot did not go to waste considering Roddenberry used it as the series' only two parter, "The Menagerie", which proved a Hugo science fiction award winner.

The show was originally a commercial flop, barely managing out three seasons before being officially canceled, with a close call on the second season . Within a few weeks of its cancellation was the monumental first Moon Landing , and as a result the subsequent reruns of Star Trek were more popular than the original run. Television was also changing at the time, starting to account for Demographics along with the ratings and found that Star Trek snagged the most coveted 18-35 male group that nearly every show aimed for. Star Trek conventions were jammed with thousands of dedicated fans and seeing the potential for a revisit led into production for a new TV series. The first version was Star Trek: The Animated Series , which may have suffered from Filmation 's cheapo production values, but it more than compensated by having most of the original writers and cast to produce a great series that earned the franchise's first Emmy Award. Later in the hope of created a television network, a new Star Trek series was developed eventually turned into the first Star Trek film in 1979 after the monumental success of Star Wars . The success of the films led to the successor series in 1987, Star Trek: The Next Generation and another 18 straight years of Star Trek on television.

To be expected, the subtitle of "The Original Series" is used solely for commercial clarification once Star Trek: The Next Generation came out. It has always been referred to as Star Trek in its own opening sequence.

The 2009 Star Trek film, directed by J.J. Abrams , was an attempt to reboot the franchise by revisiting these same characters (of course played by new actors) with a new spin. It updates and modifies the general look and premise of the original series with modern special effects. The film has been a commercial and critical success (becoming the first Star Trek film to win an Oscar), but amongst the fans it has provoked debates . Despite the outcries of certain fans, a sequel has been announced for 2012.

If you're in the US , you can watch most episodes here . And over here we have a Re Cap page.

It also gave birth to the earliest recorded case of Slash Fiction - and, by extension, Ho Yay - when fans began to ship Captain Kirk with his First Officer Spock . Additionally, a 1970s Trek fanfic parody, titled " A Trekkie's Tale ", was the Trope Namer for Mary Sue .

Character profiles and roles in the script:

• James Tiberius Kirk ( William Shatner ): The Captain , albeit a Military Maverick , and Trope Namer for The Kirk . An Ethical Slut who sleeps with Green Skinned Space Babes . Played by Large Ham William Shatner , with multiple Chewing the Scenery moments in almost every episode.
• Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ): Number Two , Kuudere , The Stoic , the Straw Vulcan (at times) and Trope Namer for The Spock . Calling him "cold-blooded" or "unfeeling" will result in Insult Backfire .
• Leonard "Bones" McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ): Chief Medical Officer, The Heart , The Medic , The Watson and Trope Namer for The McCoy . Given a Promotion to Opening Titles in the second season.
• Montgomery "Scotty" Scott ( James Doohan ): A Mr. Fixit Engineer from Bonnie Scotland . Played by a Canadian (as was Kirk).
• Nyota Uhura ( Nichelle Nichols ): Twofer Token Minority and the original Bridge Bunny . She was essentially a glorified telephone operator and didn't even have a first name until an alternate timeline finally established one. Nonetheleess, at the time this was almost unthinkable authority to place in the hands of a woman or a minority, and when Nichols considered leaving the show, she was talked out of it by none other than Martin Luther King Jr.
• Hikaru Sulu ( George Takei ): A regular Token Minority and a Fan of the Past . Was the ship's pilot , again an almost unthinkable position then for a minority.
• Pavel Chekhov ( Walter Koenig ): Added in the second season , a young ensign with a Monkees -esque hairstyle and a bad Russian accent . His immensely patriotic attitude towards "Mother Russia" was a Running Gag .
• Christine Chapel (Majel Barrett): Ship's nurse in Mad Love with Spock. Given The Cameo in a couple of the films.
• Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney): Ms. Fanservice with a Beehive Hairdo . Early reviews of the series called her a "Playboy Bunny-type waitress". She and Kirk had Unresolved Sexual Tension until she fell victim to Chuck Cunningham Syndrome . Given The Cameo in a few of the films.
• Harcourt Fenton Mudd: Trickster Con Man ... and quite a scoundrel.
• Cyrano Jones: A more affable, less competent Trickster than Harry.
• Khan Noonien Singh: An Affably Evil Human Popsicle and Designer Baby Ubermensch who was once an Evil Overlord . Later became The Unfettered Big Bad of the second movie .
• Lieutenants Leslie and Kyle: The two most prominent Red Shirt characters. The former appeared in the background of most episodes and even managed to come Back from the Dead , and is known as "King of the Redshirts"; the latter was the only Red Shirt to have a steady job (transporter chief) and frequent dialogue, making him the closest thing the series had to a Mauve Shirt . He even appeared in one movie .
• Beam Me Up, Scotty
• Beard of Evil
• Boldly Coming
• Captain's Log
• Fascinating Eyebrow
• Green-Skinned Space Babe
• He's Dead, Jim
• I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder
• Kirk Summation
• Kirk's Rock
• Mirror Universe
• Redshirt Army
• Mauve Shirt
• Scotty Time
• Spock Speak
• Straw Vulcan
• Vulcan Has No Moon
• Wagon Train to the Stars

Trope-based episodes

• Aesoptinum : "The Apple", "The Cloud Minders", "A Taste of Armageddon", etc.
• The series itself inspired several Affectionate Parodies.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot : "The Changeling", "The Ultimate Computer", "The Return of the Archons", "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", etc.
• Amnesia Danger : "The Paradise Syndrome".
• Beard of Evil : "Mirror Mirror".
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy : "Wolf in the Fold".
• Best Known for the Fanservice : SF Debris puts it best: ("The Menagerie").
• Blue and Orange Morality : Eminiar and Vendikar, the two warring planets in "A Taste of Armageddon," have so theorized their war with each other that they no longer send actual missiles—instead they just send computer signals signifying an attack and then have all civilians who happened to be within range of the theoretical attack disintegrate themselves in booths designed for that purpose . The leader of Eminiar considers Kirk a Complete Monster because he refuses to allow the same thing to happen to the crew of the Enterprise when the ship is calculated to have been "hit" by an "attack" , even more so when he destroys Eminiar's attack computers, immediately breaking the stalemate between the two planets .
• Bread and Circuses : "Bread and Circuses".
• Catch the Conscience : "The Conscience of the King" plays with this trope; a man suspected of being the murderous tyrant Kodos the Executioner happens to be an actor currently starring in a production of Hamlet.
• City in a Bottle : "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky".
• Clip Show : "The Menagerie" (showed us most of the original pilot episode "The Cage").
• Combat by Champion : "Arena", "Amok Time".
• Courtroom Episode : " Court Martial ", "Wolf in the Fold".
• Cowboy Episode : "Spectre of the Gun".
• Daddy's Little Villain : "The Conscience of the King" (a tragic Double Subversion ).
• Death of the Old Gods : "Who Mourns for Adonais?".
• Death World : "The Apple", "The Way to Eden".
• Deus Ex Nukina : "The Doomsday Machine," "Obsession," "The Immunity Syndrome".
• Disney Death : "Amok Time", "The Enterprise Incident", "The Tholian Web".
• Downer Ending : "Charlie X", "The City on the Edge of Forever".
• Dramatic Chase Opening : "The Return of the Archons" starts with Sulu and another crewman running from some pursuers in a city street. They're both caught.
• Dying Race : The Talosians in "The Menagerie".
• Empathic Healer : "The Empath".
• Enforced Cold War : "Balance of Terror", "Errand of Mercy", "The Trouble with Tribbles", "Friday's Child", "Elaan of Troyius".
• Everybody Laughs Except Spock Ending : "Shore Leave", "The Trouble with Tribbles", "The Galileo Seven", "Spock's Brain". Was an actual plot point in "Day of the Dove", where the laughter drives the Energy Being away.
• Evil Twin : "Mirror, Mirror", "The Enemy Within".
• The Final Temptation : "This Side of Paradise".
• Forgot the Call : "The Paradise Syndrome".
• Gender Bender : " Turnabout Intruder " (via Grand Theft Me ).
• Giant Germs : Monster of the Week in both "Operation: Annihilate!" and "The Immunity Syndrome".
• Gladiator Revolt : "The Gamesters of Triskelion".
• Godwin's Law of Time Travel : "The City on the Edge of Forever".
• Gone Horribly Wrong : "Miri", "The Ultimate Computer".
• Grand Theft Me : " Turnabout Intruder ".
• The Great Repair : "Galileo Seven".
• Hate Plague : "Day of the Dove".
• Heart of Darkness : "Patterns of Force", "Bread and Circuses", "Return of the Archons".
• Hollow World : "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky".
• Industrialized Evil : "A Taste of Armageddon".
• Literal Split Personality : "The Enemy Within".
• Logic Bomb : "The Changeling", "I, Mudd", "Return of the Archons", "The Ultimate Computer", "Wolf in the Fold".
• Lotus Eater Machine : "The Cage".
• Love Potion : "A Private Little War", "Elan of Troyius".
• Low Culture, High Tech
• The Mafia : "A Piece of the Action".
• Mars Needs Women : "Mudd's Women".
• The Masquerade : Gary Seven.
• Mate or Die : "Amok Time".
• Mirror Universe : "Mirror, Mirror".
• Monster Is a Mommy : "The Devil in the Dark".
• No Immortal Inertia : "Miri".
• No Social Skills : "Charlie X".
• Not So Stoic : "Amok Time" (especially Spock's reaction at the end).
• Outlaw Town : "A Piece of the Action".
• Parent Ex Machina : "The Squire of Gothos".
• People Puppets : "Plato's Stepchildren" (a literal example in the ending of the un-remastered version of "Catspaw").
• Poorly-Disguised Pilot : "Assignment: Earth".
• Portal Door : "All Our Yesterdays".
• Puppeteer Parasite : "Operation: Annihilate!", "Wolf in the Fold", "Catspaw".
• Psychopathic Manchild : Trelane from "The Squire of Gothos." Made even better by the fact that while he looks like an adult human, by his species' standards Trelane is basically a child .
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old : "Miri", "Requiem for Methuselah"
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right : "Amok Time", "Balance of Terror".
• Silly Reason for War : "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield".
• Solar CPR : "All Our Yesterdays".
• Spot the Imposter : "Whom Gods Destroy", "The Man Trap", "The Enemy Within".
• Stealth in Space : "Balance of Terror", "The Enterprise Incident".
• Stockholm Syndrome : "Metamorphosis".
• Strange Bedfellows : "Day of the Dove".
• Terminally Dependent Society
• Those Wacky Nazis : "Patterns of Force".
• Time Stands Still : "Wink of an Eye".
• Time Travel : "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", "The City on the Edge of Forever", "Assignment: Earth".
• Time Travel Romance : Kirk, in "The City on the Edge of Forever."
• Where's the Fun In That? : "The Squire of Gothos". Kirk asks his captor, "Where's the sport?" in simply hanging him, as he had planned. Instead, Kirk talks his captor into staging a "royal hunt" . This buys Kirk enough time for a Deus Ex Machina rescue.
• Who Even Needs a Brain? : "Spock's Brain".
• You Are in Command Now : "Catspaw".
• You Can't Fight Fate : "The City on the Edge of Forever".
• Aggressive Negotiations
• Air Vent Passageway : Used to escape in "Dagger of the Mind".
• Prime Directive : Former Trope Namer .
• All Cavemen Were Neanderthals
• All Planets Are Earthlike : Considering the technical and budgetary constraints, ridiculously so. The show hand waves it sometimes by making planets specifically based on Earth.
• And Your Little Dog, Too : Villains often find that this trope is what forces Kirk to comply to them. Textbook case in "The Squire of Gothos", with Spock as the collateral.
• Applied Phlebotinum
• As You Know : In "Wolf in the Fold", Spock explains to Captain Kirk how ordering the computer to compute the value of pi to the last digit will drive the Redjack creature out of it .
• Auto Kitchen : The Enterprise had slots in the wall which could produce any food desired by inserting the correct computer tape. In The Next Generation , these were replaced by replicators.
• Ax Crazy : Captain, no, Lord Garth. Also most of his "court" of fellow asylum inmates, notably Green-Skinned Space Babe Marta, who is compelled to murder those she "loves".
• Badass : Everyone . Admittedly, some of the supporting characters don't come into full bloom until the movies, but still.
• Badass Crew : Established a long and proud tradition of these in Starfleet.
• Batman Gambit : Kirk could pull these off in ways that would make Batman himself proud.
• Similarly, the space battle music from the episode "The Doomsday Machine" became a standard used over and over again in later episodes.
• Beeping Computers
• The Klingons found this out the hard way in "The Trouble With Tribbles". Then again, they were Klingons, so they may have been looking for that fight.
• Big Little Man : In "The Corbomite Maneuver", the Enterprise encounters an alien vessel, and is able to get a video feed revealing the bridge, which shows the alien captain, Balok, to be a scowling monster that looks to be about 7 feet tall. However, later they manage to get on board, revealing they had actually been watching an elaborate puppet show, and the real Balok is no larger than a child .
• Black and White Morality
• Bluff the Eavesdropper : In "The Deadly Years", due to having been rapidly aged by mysterious radiation and gone senile, Kirk has stepped down from command and his incompetent replacement has led the ship through the Romulan Neutral Zone and the latter are about to destroy them. Suddenly a cure is found, a restored Kirk appears on the bridge and gives an order to relay a message to Starfleet... using a code previously established as having been broken by the Romulans, which briefly causes the crew to wonder if he's still senile. Nevertheless, they open the channels and Kirk sends a message that the Enterprise will self destruct via the Corbomite Device and destroy any ship in a huge radius. The Romulans intercept the message and leave.
• Blunt Metaphors Trauma : Spock.
• Boldly Coming : Kirk . So much so that in "By Any Other Name", when they need to fight the aliens who have adopted human form , due to the Enterprise they have hijacked being suited to human life , each of the four remaining crew members uses their personal skills to take back the ship; McCoy secretly drugs the hijackers, Spock plays The Chessmaster and turns the aliens against each other, Scotty drinks an alien into a complete stupor , and Kirk... seduces the head alien's girlfriend.
• Bottled Heroic Resolve
• Brainwashed and Crazy : Numerous episodes.
• Brandishment Bluff : "The Corbomite Maneuver".
• Bunny Ears Lawyer : The things Kirk got away with...
• Butt Monkey : Chekhov always seems to get the worst of any mysterious affliction that affects the crew. Even on the one occasion where he proves immune in "The Deadly Years", he still gets to spend the whole episode being experimented on by McCoy in an attempt to find a cure.
• Call a Smeerp a Rabbit : In "The Enemy Within", Evil Kirk insists that his subordinates bring him some "Saurian brandy". It's unlikely that whatever world the Saurians come from actually has grapes that can be fermented and distilled into real brandy.
• Captain's Log : The Trope Namer .
• Cartwright Curse : So frequent you could almost take bets on whether the Girl of the Week was going to buy the farm by the end of the episode (or if she doesn't, pull a High Heel Face Turn ).
• Catch Phrase : Dr. McCoy's " I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder " and " He's Dead, Jim " (both Trope Namers ). Spock's "Fascinating" and "Illogical".
• Lampshaded in "Friday's Child" when Kirk wonders why "the cavalry doesn't come over the hill in the nick of time anymore". Then Scotty arrives with a Redshirt Army .
• Chekhov's Gun : And no, they didn't play Russian Roulette with it.
• Clear My Name : Happens once in a while. One time, Sarek got accused of murdering a Tellarite ambassador. It was an Orion pretending to be a staff member of the Andorian ambassador . Another time, Kirk was accused of causing the death of one of his crew members. The crew member had faked his own death and tried to sabotage Kirk's career as he blamed Kirk for ruining his .
• Cloudcuckoolander : Chekhov and his constant references to Mother Russia which appear to only make sense in his mind. To a lesser extent, Sulu and his Fleeting Passionate Hobbies which the rest of the crew regard as unusual for the time period.
• Continuity Snarl : This series is responsible for a good 90% of the continuity problems in The Verse . It took quite a few episodes before they settled on what year it was (sometimes as near as 2100s, sometimes as far as 2700 ), what group the Enterprise worked for (in some episodes it's United Earth Space Probe Agency, in some it's Starfleet, etc), the name of Spock's race (Vulcan is settled on later, but Vulcanian was still being used up till the end of the first season). References to the past that have already happened by the time the later series were being made (Khan's starship leaves in the 1990s, something plainly impossible today) and so on. Some of these have been Handwaved or attempted to be explained away, but a lot of them still cause big problems that fans prefer to overlook.
• Credits Montage : Featuring not only stills from the episode in question, but random shots from various other episodes as well.
• Creepy Children Singing :
• Cukoloris : Shadows from devices like these were often used to suggest structural detail that's off camera (and so doesn't have to actually be built). Look in the "overhead" area of the ship's interiors, particularly where a corridor opens onto a larger junction.
• Custom Uniform : Captain Kirk's deep green wraparound fatigue shirt, worn interchangeably with the usual uniform shirt in the first two seasons, is a good example of this trope in action. Kirk is the only person aboard who we see wearing this 'casual' alternative uniform.
• And cats. He has no particular fondness for the creatures .
• And dogs, too. See the space dog in "The Enemy Within".
• "Diplomats. The best diplomat I know is a fully armed phaser bank. "
• Deadpan Snarker : The epic snarkfests between McCoy and Spock are legendary for a reason.
• Death Ray : Phasers, at their highest setting, become a Disintegrator Ray .
• Deus Est Machina : Several episodes, notably "The Apple".
• Deus Ex Machina : "Charlie X" (the Thasians), "Shore Leave" (the Keeper), "The Squire of Gothos" (Trelane's parents), "Errand of Mercy" (the Organians).
• Devil's Advocate : Spock would occasionally preform the duty of the Devil's Advocate, typically countering McCoy 's or Kirk 's spontaneous, Gut Feeling -inspired actions.
• Discontinuity Nod : Various extra-series material (novels, for example), often refer in a disparaging way to the more "out there" episodes from The Original Series , usually in the form of Starfleet Officials claiming Kirk made up a large number of his reports, with his motive being contempt for his superiors. Invariably mentioned is the universally disbelieved incident in which aliens "stole the brain of Kirk's Science Officer", a reference to the episode in which Spock's brain was, indeed, stolen by alien temptresses and which is considered the worst episode of the Original Series, if not of Star Trek as a whole.
• Disney Dog Fight
• Dramatic Downstage Turn : Several instances, especially during dramatic scenes featuring female cast members. One simple example appears in a conversation between Leila and Spock near the end of the episode "This Side of Paradise".
• This trope was popular because it allowed them to use standard, preexisting costumes, props and sets, rather than having to make expensive new ones. There had been very few science fiction shows up to this time, and there were very few props hanging around to be re-used, unlike today where science fiction has been popular for a long time.
• Dude, Where's My Respect? : Averted. Among Kirk's various honors and awards: The Medal of Honor, the Starfleet Citation for Conspicuous Gallantry , The Kerrigite Order of Heroism.. The list goes on for so long that it has to be stopped early so that the episode can continue.
• Duel to the Death : "Arena", "Amok Time".
• Easily-Thwarted Alien Invasion : In "Errand of Mercy", the Organians refuse to use violence to stop the Klingons from taking over their planet, but easily thwart them with their Psychic Powers .
• Eat Dirt Cheap : The Horta.
• Empire with a Dark Secret : In "The Mark of Gideon", there was a germ-free "paradise" of a planet who was willing to join the Federation. However, the reason why they invited only Kirk to their planet was so they could decrease the planet's overpopulation by using Kirk, who had a rare disease in his blood to do it .
• Enemy Mine : The Klingons team up with the Enterprise crew in "Day of the Dove".
• Enemy Rising Behind : In "Where No Man Has Gone Before," Gary Mitchell used his newly-gained Telekinesis to make a length of power cable rise up behind and strangle to death a crewmember sitting on a console.
• Ethical Slut : Kirk at it again and again, while remaining morally upstanding.
• The series also had several subversions, among them the Horta, who is initially presented and believed to be (as the episode title states) a "Devil in the Dark", but turns out to be a mother protecting her eggs , and the Romulans, who are introduced by launching an unprovoked sneak attack... but in the same episode the two main Romulan characters are examples of My Country, Right or Wrong and What a Senseless Waste of Human Life . Even the Klingons get a minor subversion in "Errand of Mercy", where the Organians predict that at some future time the Klingons and the Federation will become fast friends, working together.
• There's also "Day of the Dove", when after learning they are being manipulated by an Energy Being into a senseless, endless war with Kirk's crew, the Klingons team up in an Enemy Mine .
• Explosive Breeder : The Tribbles.
• Explosive Overclocking : The ship's engines, frequently (probably the source of all the "she cannae hauld no muir!" parodies of Scotty). Also, phasers have a setting which allows them to be used as time bombs.
• Expositron 9000 : The ship's computer.
• Exposition of Immortality : Several of the alien beings that the TOS crew encountered had vastly expanded lifespans and/or had dabbled in Earth's history in some way . A key example to be found in the episode "Requiem for Methuselah". In Flint's home, Mr. Spock finds a waltz by Johannes Brahms written in original manuscript in Brahms' own hand, but which is totally unknown. Likewise Flint has a collection of Leonardo da Vinci masterpieces that have been recently painted on contemporary canvas with contemporary materials. Flint later admits that he was Brahms and da Vinci .
• The Face : Uhura is both the Token Girl and the token black as well as the Communications Officer .
• Fallen Hero : Gary Mitchell, John Gill, Garth of Izar.
• Many women find that the numerous Kirk-shirt tears of Season 1 would count as this as well.
• Dear god, "Mirror, Mirror" shows that Uhura has nice abs. And then there's "Patterns of Force" with its whips, chains, and shirtlessness.
• Sulu topless in "The Naked Time". Kirk topless several times (and naked in one episode).
• "Charlie X" has Kirk shirtless and in tights. It's very distracting.
• Legend has it that when Sherry Jackson walked into the NBC commissary wearing her Andrea costume from "What Little Girls Are Made Of" - bell-bottoms and two straps crossed over her chest - forks stopped halfway between plate and mouth.
• The costume designer for the show was William Ware Theiss, Trope Codifier for the Theiss Titillation Theory .`
• Several episodes also revolved around two alien species' hatred of each other for no good reason.
• Fascinating Eyebrow : The Trope Namer because when Spock raises his eyebrow, he says "fascinating" very nearly every time.
• A Fate Worse Than Death : Poor, poor Charlie Evans ...
• Five-Token Band : May well be the Trope Codifier .
• Food and Animal Attraction : In "The Cage", during one of the illusions the Talosians create for Captain Pike, a horse starts nuzzling his jacket pocket in search of the sugar therein.
• Forced Prize Fight
• Force Field Door : The ship's brig.
• In "Amok Time", McCoy uses the fact that Spock hasn't eaten for three days in an attempt to convince Kirk that something is wrong, and Kirk dismisses it as simply being Spock in one of his contemplative phases.
• Another example is "The Paradise Syndrome", where Spock hardly eats for weeks while studying the obelisk.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend : Pretty much everyone who got killed on the show ( and that's a lot ).
• A Form You Are Comfortable With : Trelane ("The Squire of Gothos"), the Organians ("Errand of Mercy"), and the Metrons ("Arena").
• Frequently-Broken Unbreakable Vow : The Prime Directive .
• Spock risks his career, and possibly his life, for his former captain (Pike) in "The Menagerie". Kirk does the same for Spock in "Amok Time", and again in the third movie.
• Get Back to the Future : "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", "All Our Yesterdays".
• Get It Over With : Dr. McCoy has a version of this when he is attacked by Khan in Sickbay in "Space Seed":
• Clever wordplay in "The Naked Time" with Sulu imagining himself a heroic swordsman.
• Star Trek did show the first televised interracial kiss between Uhura and Chapel in the first season, albeit as just a brief congratulatory peck on the cheek between two sisterly colleagues.
• What gets all the historical attention, however, is the first "romantic" interracial kiss between Kirk and Uhura in "Plato's Stepchildren" in the third season. This scene wasn't really that romantic as presented, since they were both being coerced, though it did have her confessing to her captain that she found his commanding presence very comforting in scary times such as this one. Also, the kiss was shown at an angle from which viewers couldn't see the actors' lips, although Nichols insists in her memoirs that it was entirely real.
• In "Mudd's Women", the title women have an obvious effect on the male crew-members. During a physical with one of them, a somewhat agitated McCoy notices an odd reading on the medical scanner as the woman walks past.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom : Gary Mitchell.
• In "The Paradise Syndrome", an amnesiac Kirk is mistaken for a deity by transplanted American Indians on a distant planet.
• "Who Mourns for Adonais?" has an actual surviving Greek God who reveals he's just a powerful alien who had become too used to being worshiped by mortals.
• In "The Omega Glory", Spock is mistaken for the devil (this was actually a real-life objection the producers had to his appearance).
• McCoy invoked this in "Bread and Circuses", saying he wished he could claim to be the Archangel Gabriel. When Spock said this was illogical, McCoy replied that Spock, of course, could never claim to be Gabriel. "But say you beamed down with a pitchfork ...."
• Good-Looking Privates : Let's face it, there's a reason this show was the Launcher of a Thousand Ships . All of the main cast were good-looking in their own way, and the innumerable girls of the week and the big strapping Red Shirts usually were as well.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil : In "The Savage Curtain", Surak, Spock and President Lincoln have a hard time understanding the motives and actions of the opposing "evil" side. Only Kirk seems to have a grasp of their potential for deceptiveness and duplicity.
• Good Republic, Evil Empire : Why the Federation is unlike the Klingons, according to Kirk.
• Got the Whole World In My Hand : The Terran Empire.
• The Great Politics Mess-Up : Wait, did Chekhov say "Leningrad" in My Grandma Can Do Better Than You below?
• Grudging Thank You : In the episode "Bread and Circuses", Bones gives Spock a Grudging Thank You and receives a Think Nothing of It in return.
• "A Piece of the Action" is the funniest example. Captain Kirk positively revels in giving all the mob chiefs offers they can't refuse.
• Of course, the series was partially inspired by the Horatio Hornblower books.
• Parodied in a line given to Kirk in one of the classic fan songs: " We Come in Peace, Shoot to Kill ".
• Halloween Episode : "Catspaw", which was first broadcast on October 27, 1967.
• Kirk and McCoy engage in the purely platonic "meaningful look" variant when they drop the friendly banter and display the fact that they are rock-solid best friends (or at least second best- see above).
• The Hero : Captain Kirk
• Heroic BSOD : Decker in "The Doomsday Machine"... that is until he faces the planet-killer one-on-one .
• Heroic Sacrifice : Several one-shot characters die nobly, but the undisputed champion (and not just for Star Trek ) is Spock sacrificing himself to save the ship and crew, at the end of the second movie . "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few... or the one."
• Heterosexual Life Partners : Kirk and Spock and their intergalactic b romance .
• High Concept : Many idea and concepts for episodes can be described thus but also the idea of the show itself, Wagon Train to the Stars was High Concept in its day.
• High Heel Face Turn : Frequently with women Kirk seduced.
• Hollywood Torches : In "Errand of Mercy" and "Catspaw".
• Holodeck Malfunction : Subverted in the episode "Shore Leave". The planet's safety protocols are working just fine, but the away team doesn't know that and think they are actually in danger.
• Human Ladder
• Humans Are Interesting : Or fascinating , even.
• I Can Still Fight : Justified, when Kirk was injured, but he insisted on being on the bridge because Spock was needed at the time to give a vital transplant to his father.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight : Kirk and Spock in "This Side of Paradise"; Kirk has to get Spock angry enough so he can overcome the influence of the mind-altering spores.
• I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder : Trope Maker .
• I'm Not Afraid of You
• Impostor-Exposing Test : In "The Trouble With Tribbles", the Tribble dislike for Klingons is used to identify the Klingon spy disguised as a human.
• Involuntary Group Split : Happens to Kirk and Spock in "The Devil in the Dark".
• I, Noun : "I, Mudd".
• Jerk Jock : Though not a jock, Kirk was tormented endlessly by upperclassman Finnegan when he was younger. One of his fantasies is finally getting to punch him out.
• Just Testing You : Kirk and Spock set up a challenge/response password before Kirk beamed down to a planet in order to prevent imposters from getting beamed up. Naturally a shapeshifter takes Kirk's form and tries to get Spock to beam him up. When he doesn't know the password, he tries to cover it up by saying that he was just testing Spock. Spock catches on immediately and concludes that Kirk must be in trouble, since the real Kirk would never "test" him like that.
• Kill the Cutie : Edith Keeler in "The City on the Edge of Forever". After all, You Can't Fight Fate .
• Kill the Poor : In the episode "The Cloud Minders", on the planet Ardana, rather then kill the poor, they were enslaved and forced to live out their entire lives underground.
• Knockout Gas : In the episode "Space Seed", after Khan takes over the Enterprise , Kirk orders that all decks be flooded with Neural Gas, which would render everyone aboard unconscious. That attempt fails, but later the attempt succeeds.
• Mr. Spock was first given his distinctive theme music in the episode "Amok Time". The wistful, romantic melody is usually provided by a bass guitar - a deliberate choice by composer Gerald Fried, as he felt it would be a terrible match for such a utilitarian instrument, a juxtaposition that suits the dichotomy of Spock's character .
• Scotty also has his own leitmotif, typically used in lighter moments. It is prominently heard in both "The Trouble With Tribbles" and "By Any Other Name".
• Liberty Over Prosperity : In "Space Seed", after Khan's attempt to take over the Enterprise fails, Kirk says that he and his followers can either be punished under Starfleet regulations (which would presumably involve a long prison sentence) or become colonists on an uninhabited planet.
• Ludicrous Precision : Spock's figures, constantly. Discussed in "Errand of Mercy".
• Possibly justified, because machines cause vibrations that engineers familiar with said machine can actually feel when touching it—such as through the hull of a starship.
• Scotty himself confirms this in the NextGen episode "Relics" when he compares the Enterprise D with 'his' Enterprise to Picard.
• Mad Love : Nurse Chapel and Spock.
• Memetic Hand Gesture : The Vulcan salute.
• Men Are the Expendable Gender : Only three female redshirts were killed in the whole series, whereas dozens of male Starfleet personnel were killed.
• Mildly Military : The crew of the Enterprise don't seem too keen on protocol and frequently question orders and argue with the captain. As well, what's the sense in the command staff (and thus the most important people on the ship) beaming down for every mission?
• Minored in Asskicking : The reserved, cerebral Spock and his skill at hand-to-hand fighting (Vulcan nerve pinch! Judo chop!).
• More Hero Than Thou : In "The Empath", when aliens offer Kirk the choice of sacrificing McCoy or Spock, McCoy takes out Kirk with drugs. Spock is glad; since this leaves him in command, he can make the sacrifice himself. McCoy proceeds to drug him as well and sacrifice himself.
• Multi Boobage : The cat creature in Star Trek V .
• Multinational Team : Each of the bridge crew represents a part of the world (and an alien).
• Mundane Utility : In multiple episodes, they use their phasers to create a heat source, by shooting a rock.
• Mundanization
• Spock's actions in transported Captain Pike to Talos IV constituted a mutiny, for which he was put on trial which was a ruse to buy him more time .
• Kirk considers the crew's actions in "This Side of Paradise" to be a mutiny: they abandon the ship due to being Brainwashed and Crazy .
• My Grandma Can Do Better Than You : The exchange where Scotty tells Chekhov that Scotch whisky is a man's drink, and Chekhov replies that it was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad.
• My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That : In the episode "Mudd's Women", the computer tells the all-male hearing board the effect the women are having on them - elevated heart rate, sweating, rapid pulse. All except Spock, of course .
• Neck Snap : The Vulcan tal-shaya technique performed by the Orion spy in "Journey to Babel".
• No-Paper Future : Although paper still exists, characters take notes on what are obviously tablet computers. Most characters find reading e-books off of screens to be more convenient than hauling wood pulp around. And this was over forty years ago.
• The character played by Majel Barrett in "The Cage" is referred to only as "Number One", the unofficial nickname attached to her position as Captain Pike's first officer.
• Neither the male Romulan Commander played by Mark Lenard in "Balance of Terror" nor the female Commander played by Joanne Linville in "The Enterprise Incident" were ever referred to by name.
• No Social Skills : Charlie Evans, due to being raised by Energy Beings .
• Not Love Interest : Kirk and Spock, for each other. See the trope page for more details, but... suffice it to say, Kirk and Spock have been the lodestars of each others' lives since almost the day they met.
• Moral Myopia : Come to think of it, it is not all that different from Kirk's intrigues with Klingons and Romulans .
• No Transhumanism Allowed : Discussed . When Khan is awoken in "Space Seed", he has a discussion with Kirk once they have determined his identity, lamenting the fact that the humans of the 2300s are practically indistinguishable from those of the 1990s. He was hoping to awaken in a world of genetically modified Ubermensch like himself, at the very least.
• Not Rare Over There : In "Elaan of Troyius", the ship's dilithium crystals crack in the middle of a battle. Unfortunately, there are none left... until they realize that Elaan's necklace has a bunch of them. She surrenders it gladly, bemused that they would want what to her planet are Worthless Yellow Rocks .
• Not So Different : In the episode "Balance of Terror", the defeated Romulan Commander says that he and Kirk "are of a kind", just before blowing himself up.
• The Klingon commander in "Errand of Mercy" is all over this, but Kirk shouts him down.
• Numbered Homeworld : Rigel VII ... XII... how many of those were there, anyway?
• Of the People
• Once For Yes, Twice For No : If not the Trope Maker , then certainly the Trope Codifier with Captain Pike's portrayal in "The Menagerie".
• One-Winged Angel : Sylvia in "Catspaw" turns into a giant cat when Kirk refuses to obey her.
• Our Vampires Are Different : The alien Kirk hunts down in "Obsession" is a shapeless cloud that can travel through space at warp speed without a ship, that subsists off of human blood.
• Out-of-Character Moment : "The Naked Time", "This Side of Paradise", and "Amok Time" were entire episodes about this trope.
• Panty Shot : The ridiculously short skirts of the standard female uniform lead to most of the female Starfleet officers doing this at some point.
• Polarity Reversal : The Trope Maker .
• The Power of Legacy : In his final log in "Where No Man Has Gone Before", Kirk merely notes that Mitchell "gave [his] life in performance of [his] duty", and omits the part where he first gained vast psionic powers and began to think of himself as a god who regarded humans as insects to be crushed.
• Precision F-Strike : There was only one curse in the entire series, occurring at the end of "The City on the Edge of Forever". It's notable for being one of the few curse words on American TV during the 1960s and showing just how hurt Kirk was as a result of the Bittersweet Ending .
• Pretty in Mink : Lenore Karidian wears a short fur dress. Seen here , at 12:55 - 14:47.
• Proud Warrior Race : The Klingons, of course, but also the Romulans and others.
• Also Trelane, as noted earlier. (Doubly?) subverted in that he's not (strictly speaking) a man, but is DEFINITELY a child .
• Psycho Serum : McCoy's adrenaline-like drug in "The City on the Edge of Forever", which causes temporary insanity when injected at overly high doses (which he accidentally does to himself).
• Public Secret Message : In "Space Seed", Khan Noonien Singh was named for Kim Noonien Singh, one of Roddenberry's buddies from World War II . Roddenberry hoped that the name would attract the attention of the Real Life Singh in hopes that they would reconnect.
• Punishment Box : In the episode "Mirror, Mirror".
• Radio Silence : In "Balance of Terror", the Romulan ship heads home under cover of a cloaking device and comm silence. Unfortunately for them, one of the officers violates orders in order to call home base to report the success of their mission, and the transmission is detected.
• Ramming Always Works : How Kirk destroys the titular device in "The Doomsday Machine".
• Raygun Gothic : The Original Series was the last of the classic examples. Soon afterwards, 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Real Life moon landings introduced more realism into the genre.
• Readings Are Off the Scale : Said by everyone : Spock, Chekhov, Uhura...
• Reality Warping Is Not a Toy
• Rebellious Princess
• Reckless Gun Usage : Two instances, both involving Time Travel and the not-gun-shaped Phaser. In "The City on the Edge of Forever", a 1930s bum gets hold of one and vaporizes himself playing with it . In "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", Kirk is captured by Air Police in 1969, and cringes (with priceless facial expressions) as they fiddle with his weapon, toss it around, and several times almost press the trigger, conflicted between justifiable fear and the need to not let them know who he is or what they have.
• Religion of Evil : The cult of Landru in "The Return of the Archons".
• Right-Hand-Cat : Isis (to Gary Seven) in "Assignment Earth" and Sylvia (to Korob) in "Catspaw".
• Rubber Forehead Aliens : Infamously, the Klingons (though they didn't even have the budget for that until the movies). Vulcans are Rubber Ear Aliens.
• Running Gag : Trying to explain Spock's ears to native people. The cake-taker has to be this gem, from "The City on the Edge of Forever":
• Sadistic Choice : Pretty much everyone was forced to make these every so often.
• Sailor Fuku : In the episode "Court Martial", Jamie Finney wears a futuristic version of this.
• Sarcastic Devotee : Both Spock and Bones are devoted to the captain, but are also quite willing to question/make sarcastic comments about his orders when the situation warrants it.
• Justified/Played with in "Charlie X", because he really doesn't understand the rules .
• Second Episode Introduction : McCoy doesn't appear in either of the pilots, but does appear in the first proper episode.
• Secret Test : Balok in The Corbomite Maneuver", the Ekosian Resistance in "Patterns of Force", and Korob in "Catspaw".
• Self-Destruct Mechanism : Multiple examples.
• Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains : The mirror universe.
• Might be somewhat justified, in that it's a visual representation of the woman gaining confidence (the movie Shallow Hal uses this as well to demonstrate Hal's new ability to see "inner beauty").
• Shapeshifter Swan Song
• Short-Lived, Big Impact : Star Trek: The Original Series originally lasted for just two seasons, being Uncancelled for a third season before dying completely. It's also a cultural icon, spawning four follow-up television series , a dozen movies (so far), countless novels and video games, and having an immense influence on science fiction, and possibly Western culture as a whole. Good luck finding someone who doesn't recognize Captain Kirk and Mister Spock, even if they were born long after the series was first aired.
• As well as Kirk, who was stated to be quite bookish at the academy.
• Also occurs in "Day of the Dove", when Chekhov is ranting about the Klingons having murdered his brother Piotr. Sulu immediately knows something is wrong because Chekhov's an only child.
• Though Bones's Southern accent isn't (usually) quite as noticeable as Trip's .
• Space Mines : In the episode "Balance of Terror", the Romulan ship uses one of its self destruct devices as an impromptu mine in an attempt to destroy the Enterprise. In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , in The Kobayashi Maru scenario that starts off the movie, the ship the Enterprise needs to rescue was disabled by a gravitic mine.
• Styrofoam Rocks : In "Return of the Archons", a melon-sized "rock" bounces off a stuntman's head and he keeps running. Apparently, it wasn't supposed to hit him at all, and was left in under time pressure.
• Sufficiently Advanced Alien : "The Corbomite Maneuver", "The Squire of Gothos", and more.
• Take a Third Option : Kirk was famous for these.
• Chekhov was supposedly introduced after an article in the Soviet state newspaper Pravda allegedly mocked the show for not having a Russian, when the Russians had been the first into space.
• The insult "Herbert" that the space hippies use in "The Way to Eden" was definitely a Take That at a real life Herbert. However, no-one is exactly sure who it was supposed to be—depending on who you ask, it was either Herbert Hoover or Herbert Solow, who was the show's production executive for the first two seasons.
• In "Charlie X", Uhura sings seductively to Spock (no, the 2009 movie didn't make up her having the hots for him) and jokingly describes him as being "in Satan's guise" (to which Spock struggles to suppress a smile)--a Take That to meddling executives who had feared that Spock's "devilish" appearance would offend conservative viewers (and doctored publicity photos to remove Spock's pointed ears and slanted eyebrows).
• Talking the Monster to Death : Usually with Kirk delivering a Logic Bomb to a psychotic computer.
• Tall, Dark and Snarky : Spock definitely fits into this trope.
• Tap on the Head : Spock's Vulcan nerve/neck pinch.
• Techno Babble : Although not as bad as later series, there is still a lot. Remember, this is the show that invented the Polarity Reversal .
• Teleporter Accident : Many (usually the transporter being out of order and unable to beam the heroes aboard), but notably in "The Enemy Within", which creates an Evil Knockoff and a wimpy knockoff of Kirk.
• "Dagger of the Mind". The Tantalus penal colony has a security force field that blocks the Enterprise transporter.
• "Whom Gods Destroy". The planet Elba II has a force field that prevents the Enterprise from beaming anyone down.
• That's an Order : Occurred in 13 different episodes .
• This Is No Time for Knitting : In "Court Martial", McCoy is aghast to find Spock playing chess against the computer while Kirk is losing a court martial for criminal negligence. However, Spock reveals that he has been using the chess games to confirm that the ship's computer's memory banks have been tampered with to frame Kirk.
• This Was His True Form : The shapeshifting creature in "The Man Trap"; the two telepathic aliens in "Catspaw".
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works : During one of the illusions that Captain Pike was subjected to in the original pilot episode, he wound up using this on a giant warrior threatening the Love Interest , causing it to fall and get impaled.
• Time Bomb : "Obsession", "The Immunity Syndrome", "The Doomsday Machine".
• Time Travelers Are Spies : "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", "Assignment: Earth".
• Tim Taylor Technology
• That's What I Would Do : In "Balance of Terror", this is Kirk's comment after the nameless Romulan commander dodges one of the Enterprise' s attacks: "He did exactly what I would have done. I won't underestimate him again."
• Trial by Combat : Kirk must face the Gorn captain in "Arena" in a Duel to the Death to determine which was in the wrong by straying into their space.
• Though it came years before MythBusters , a Star Trek: The Next Generation Novel involving the Gorn revealed that, over the years, many a Starfleet cadet had tried to duplicate Kirk's cannon, often to extremely mixed results. Injuries were not uncommon.
• Turns Red : The Companion, when Kirk and crew attack it with something like an EMP; it takes Cochrane to stop it from killing our gallant crew .
• Turn the Other Fist : The episode "The Trouble With Tribbles" features this kind of punch by good ol' Scotty when a Klingon is insulting the Enterprise .
• Unique Pilot Title Sequence : "Where No Man Has Gone Before" didn't have William Shatner's "Space, the final frontier" voiceover. This was 'corrected' for the HD remastered version of the episode.
• The Unpronounceable : Spock's real name supposedly can't be pronounced by humans.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom : Doctor McCoy (and Edith Keeler ) in "The City on the Edge of Forever".
• " How is this guy still a captain? ": The stuff that Kirk got away with.....
• " What the hell did he just say?": Star Trek damn near invented Techno Babble ... but the original series used very little of it .
• "There is no way that's going to work.": The show is one of the biggest users of Crazy Enough to Work plans.
• "So that's where they got the idea for flip cell-phones": Trek is recognized for having inspired many a real life invention. See also Life Imitates Art .
• Khan suffered a brief one when no one from the bridge was willing to join him, even with Kirk's life at stake.
• In " Turnabout Intruder ", Dr Janice Lester grew increasingly unhinged as the rest of the suspicious crew began to mutiny and rebel against her orders while she was in Kirk's body.
• In "The Conscience of the King", the entire episode dealt with trying to discover if actor Anton Karidian really was a murderous tyrant named Kodos the Executioner. By the end of the episode, this has happened to two villainous characters. Karidian, who is Kodos and becomes spooked when he overhears an argument between Riley and Kirk about his past during a performance of Hamlet . Kodos breaks down backstage during the intermission, believing the voices to be ghosts from his past . At the same time, his daughter Lenore reveals she has murdered seven of the nine witnesses who could still identify him, and plans to kill Kirk and Riley, even swearing she would destroy an entire planet to save him. Kodos breaks down further as he realizes his actions in the past have corrupted his own child as well . In true Shakespearian fashion, this causes a chain reaction that ends in the death of Kodos, who dies trying to stop Lenore from shooting Kirk and instead takes the lethal blast meant for Kirk. Lenore is pronounced completely insane in the epilog, as she believes her father to be alive and well .
• Evil Kirk in "Mirror, Mirror". " I. ORDER. YOU!!!! "
• The Wall Around the World : The barrier around the galaxy in "Where No Man Has Gone Before". Appears again in "Is There in Truth No Beauty?", when a jealous (and then insane) engineer gets them lost on the wrong side of it and Spock must mind-meld with Kollos to get them back, and mentioned in "By Any Other Name" as the reason for the Kelvan expedition being stranded in our galaxy.
• Wanting Is Better Than Having : Spock in "Amok Time", almost word for word:
• Well-Intentioned Extremist : The Vians in "The Empath" use a beautiful, mute empath in combination with our Power Trio to determine whether her race is worthy of survival before their sun goes nova. Their methods consist of torture and mutilation, resulting in gross physical and psychological damage. Turns out that the empath's race is worthy of preservation, and the Vians, totally logical and possessed of their own morals and ethics regarding life , needed only "good old-fashioned human emotion" to help them see that .
• Also when the Romulans decide to self-destruct rather than surrender in "Balance of Terror".
• What Measure Is a Non-Human? : The Horta (rock monster) in "The Devil in the Dark".
• Wide-Eyed Idealist / Wrong Genre Savvy : Edith Keeler in "The City on the Edge of Forever".
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity : "Where No Man Has Gone Before", "Whom Gods Destroy" although to a lesser extent.
• Worthy Opponent : As noted above, several examples, with the Romulan commander in "Balance of Terror" being a particular standout.
• Another instance was with an ex-lover of Kirk's, while in Kirk's body, hit Kirk, who was in her body. This shocked the rest of the crew, who at this point didn't know about the change and grew suspicious, as Kirk would never hit a girl like that.
• Kirk chinned Shahna, his "drill thrall" in "The Gamesters of Triskelion, into unconsciousness, but it didn't get him very far.
• However, Kirk has a weird tendency to lay his hands on female characters as part of 'normal' conversation, including grabbing them by the arms/shoulders and shaking them, even women he hasn't been sleeping with.
• Wrong Name Outburst : In the infamous backrub scene, Kirk told Spock to push a little harder , believing Spock was the one giving him the backrub.
• Xanatos Gambit : "Amok Time". Turns out Vulcans love these, since they are, as Spock comments, "Logical. Flawlessly logical." They're always looking to turn a benefit from plans and events.
• He then showed up as a Klingon in the prologue of the first movie, thus appearing as a member of all three major galactic powers of the era.
• This was so bad that the prequel , Star Trek: Enterprise , looked more high-tech than this show... just due to the production assets available to the cast and crew of Enterprise .
• And then came the " Mirror Universe " episode of Enterprise , and somehow they made the TOS -era Defiant work .
• Handwaved in the DS9 episode "Trials and Tribble-ations" with Dax admiring "the classic 23rd century styling" of the tricorders and instruments.

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The complete star trek timeline explained.

From James T. Kirk to Jean-Luc Picard, from Kathryn Janeway to Michael Burnham, we're breaking down the full chronological timeline of Star Trek.

Star Trek has been one of the premiere science fiction franchises in the world for over 50 years, but the sprawling timeline can sometimes be intimidating to new viewers, so we're laying out the definitive guide to the final frontier.

Over its half century of existence, Star Trek has rarely told its stories in a straight, chronological line; time travel tropes, alternate realities, and massive jumps into the future are all commonplace. Whether it's the era of Kirk and Spock or Picard and Data, Star Trek's timeline is a rich tapestry of compelling characters and science fiction parables, and it's still going strong.

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Here's a definitive look at the important milestones in the Star Trek timeline, across the franchise's many movies and TV shows.

Star Trek: Enterprise (2151-2155)

After Zefram Cochran's warp speed breakthrough and confab with Earth's first alien visitors, the Vulcans, humanity made slow steps toward rebuilding itself after the fallout from World War III, becoming worthy of being a citizen in a larger galactic community. Star Trek: Enterprise chronicled the adventures of Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the Enterprise NX-01, the first human ship capable of warp 5.

The show dealt with humanity's growing pains with ostensible allies like the Vulcans and Andorians, as well as the introduction of classic species like the Klingons. The show ended with a bizarre, roundly criticized holodeck flashforward, which saw Archer and friends present at the creation of the Federation in 2161.

Star Trek: Discovery Seasons 1 and 2 (2256-2259)

Star Trek: Discovery begins with a disastrous meeting between Starfleet and the Klingon Empire, which leads to a long, bloody war that nearly cost the Federation its soul. Centering on Commander Micheal Burnham, Discovery deals with the personal prices of war, as well as the themes of redemption and empathy. The first season dealt almost exclusively with the Klingon War, while season 2 took a more thoughtful approach - partially by borrowing the once and future captain of the Enterprise, Christopher Pike. When faced with a homicidal artificial intelligence called Control, the crew of the Discovery realized the only way to save all organic life in the universe would be to jump significantly into the future - but we'll get to that in a bit.

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Star Trek: The Original Series (2266-2269)

The USS Enterprise was launched in 2245, under Captain Robert April, before Pike took command somewhere around 2254, which is the year of the show's initial, rejected pilot episode "The Cage." A new pilot - now featuring William Shatner's iconic Captain Kirk and a little more action - was set in 2265, while the first season of Star Trek: The Original Series was largely set in 2266.

The show would take some time travel detours - including the stone cold classic "City On The Edge Of Forever," which saw Kirk and Spock faced with an impossible choice when they find themselves thrown back to the 1930s. But this is the show whose era would define Star Trek for decades - bright colors, multicultural Starfleet crews, and more than a little silliness.

Star Trek: The Animated Series (2269-2270)

While Star Trek: The Original Series was unceremoniously cancelled after its third season, the show would go on to become a phenomenon in syndication. The first hint that Star Trek would outlive its somewhat humble beginnings was Star Trek: The Animated Series , an Emmy winning cartoon that aimed for a family friendly vibe without sacrificing what made The Original Series work.

It's been debated for years whether or not The Animated Series is a proper part of Star Trek canon - franchise creator Gene Roddenberry tended to vacillate on the issue, but current Star Trek head honcho Alex Kurtzman says it is. It even got a couple of brief references in Star Trek: Picard - so we're including it here.

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (2273)

Following a few years as head of Starfleet Command, Admiral James T. Kirk retakes the reins of the newly refitted USS Enterprise to stop a mysterious, sentient cloud from consuming everything in its path, including its eventual final destination - Earth. Spock, now studying on Vulcan to purge himself of all remaining emotion, finds himself in direct contact with the alien entity, which turns out to have more to do with humanity than the crew could ever guess.

The first film in the franchise is a long, cerebral story, with a significantly colder, more serious vibe than The Original Series , taking many of its cues from the classic 2001: A Space Odyssey . It received something of a mixed reaction from audiences, but greater things were just around the corner for Kirk and friends.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (2285)

Set over a decade after The Motion Picture , Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is still widely considered the gold standard of Star Trek films. Admiral Kirk - now many years removed from his salad days on the Enterprise - is enduring something of a midlife crisis on Earth when an enemy from his past returns. Khan Noonien Singh, the superman who menaced the Enterprise in the classic TOS episode "Space Seed," is looking for vengeance against Kirk, and plans to utilize the technology of the Genesis project to continue his destiny of conquest.

After a pitched cat and mouse battle in space, Kirk comes out on top, but at a terrible cost - Spock sacrifices his life to save the Enterprise. Spock's death would define the next two films in the franchise.

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Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (2285)

Set immediately after the events of the previous film, The Search For Spock finds Kirk and friends stealing the Enterprise in an effort to save Spock's katra - essentially his soul - after the wily Vulcan transferred it to Dr. McCoy just before his death. The crew would eventually save Spock, but at great price; Kirk would not only lose his adult son, David, to a Klingon attack, but also the Enterprise, destroyed in an effort to trick those same Klingons.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (2286/1986)

As the crew of the late USS Enterprise prepares to leave Vulcan and return to Earth to answer for their crimes, a massive alien ship appears over Earth, causing massive climate disruptions on the planet's surface. In their stolen Klingon vessel, Kirk and Spock are able to determine that the alien ship is trying to contact humpback whales, which were extinct by the 23rd century. They decide that to save Earth, they have to go back in time to retrieve a pair of humpback whales.

The crew travel back to 1986 and have one of their more lighthearted adventures along the way. They're eventually able to retrieve the whales, return to the future and save Earth. For their trouble, all charges against the crew are dropped except one, against only Admiral Kirk, whose "punishment" is demotion to Captain. Kirk and his faithful crew are assigned to a brand new ship - the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A, and the adventures continue.

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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (2287)

Less than a year out of space dock, the new Enterprise-A is something of a mess, but Kirk and crew are still called into action when a mysterious Vulcan named Sybok takes a group of diplomats hostage, demanding a starship in exchange for their release. Sybok would be revealed as Spock's half-brother who rejected the teachings of Vulcan logic to embrace emotion.

Sybok was able to commandeer the Enterprise and take it to a far away planet he calls Sha Ka Ree, essentially Eden. But the God of Sha Ka Ree proves to be a villainous alien attempting to free itself from an ancient prison. Sybok dies in the ensuing battle, but the alien entity is fought off by an unlikely Klingon assist. Spock mourns his brother, but takes comfort in the family he's made for himself on the Enterprise.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (2293)

After a cataclysmic mining accident, the Klingon Empire finds itself in generational peril. The Federation takes the opportunity to open peace negotiations with the warrior race, with Spock volunteering the soon to be retired Enterprise crew for one final mission, much to Captain Kirk's horror. Kirk still blames the Klingons for the death of his son and has trouble separating his personal feelings from his mission. But when the Klingon Emperor is mysteriously killed after meeting with the Enterprise crew, Kirk and McCoy find themselves accused of his murder.

Spock is able to uncover a vast conspiracy within Starfleet and the Klingon Empire - including his hand-chosen successor, Lieutenant Valeris - which is intent on destroying any chance of peace. Kirk is eventually able to put his own prejudice and fear of the future aside, paving the way for the eventual peace that the Klingons and the Federation would enjoy in the 24th century.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation (2364-2370)

Taking place a century after the events of The Original Series , Star Trek: The Next Generation was the franchise's great leap forward. Set on the brand new Galaxy class USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D, TNG would follow the adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew of bright eyed overachievers. Produced two decades after TOS , Star Trek: The Next Generation told more sophisticated stories, and thankfully jettisoned some of the overt misogyny from its 1960s predecessor. Fan favorites like Data and Worf became household names in the same manner as Spock and Bones.

Running in syndication for seven seasons, Star Trek: The Next Generation was a bigger and more consistent hit than The Original Series , and solidified Star Trek as an A-list franchise for most of the 1990s.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2369-2375)

Set on a stationary space station, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine would break new ground for the franchise in more ways than one. It featured Avery Brooks as Commander Benjamin Sisko - the first person of color to lead a Star Trek crew, and a young father questioning his place in Starfleet as he takes on this new mission. He would eventually find himself revered as a religious figure by the people of Bajor, a deeply spiritual society that was occupied and enslaved by the fascistic Cardassians.

Deep Space Nine would go to some surprisingly dark places, and its later seasons even focused on the Federation entering a bitter war against the Dominion, a sort of dark mirror of the Federation intent on galactic conquest. While a modest success in its time, it has become a fundamentally important part of the Star Trek universe.

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Star Trek: Voyager (2371-2378)

When the brand new USS Voyager - commanded by the steely Captain Kathryn Janeway - finds itself thrown into the Delta quadrant, decades away from home, Star Trek suddenly became a story of survival. More than most series in the franchise, Star Trek: Voyager's crew thought of themselves as a family, enduring years away from the protection of the Federation as they encountered new and old challenges in the Delta quadrant - including the nightmarish cybernetic threat, the Borg.

A former Borg drone, Seven of Nine, would join the series halfway through, and her relationships with Janeway and the ship's suspiciously sentient Emergency Medical Hologram - called simply The Doctor - would come to define the series in its later years.

Star Trek: Generations (2371/2293)

Set immediately after the final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation , this was the first movie in the franchise to feature that show's cast. The film actually begins almost a century earlier with the launch of the Enterprise-B, which happens to be the mission on which Captain Kirk was presumed dead. However, the good captain was actually pulled into a mystical energy ribbon called The Nexus, which was a gateway to a kind of manufactured paradise reality.

A madman named Soran attempts to destroy a star so that he can change the path of The Nexus ribbon and re-enter paradise. He accidentally takes Jean-Luc Picard with him, who brings Kirk back with him to defeat Soren and save untold millions. Kirk dies in the battle, spending his final moments with Picard, who assures him he made a difference. Generations not only sees the end of James Kirk, but the destruction of the iconic Enterprise-D as well. The sleeker, battle ready Enterprise-E would debut in the next film, Star Trek: First Contact .

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Star Trek: First Contact (2373/2063)

Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise-E must travel back over 300 years from the 24th century to stop the villainous Borg from changing the timeline so that humanity never harnessed warp speed and therefore never made first contact with an alien species, making thm ripe for assimilation. The Earth of this era was still recovering from both the Eugenics Wars a generation earlier and the nuclear fallout from World War III.

After dispatching the Borg, Picard and crew get a rare treat, as they get to be witnesses to the first meeting between Zefram Cochrane - the alcoholic inventor who first harnesses warp speed - and the Vulcans, fittingly humanity's first introduction to life among the stars.

Star Trek: Insurrection (2375)

Reeling from Dominion and Borg attacks, the Federation puts its ideals to the test when it locates a planet with natural healing abilities, something akin to the fountain of youth. Starfleet plans to move its inhabitants off world so they can exploit the planet's inherent powers, to the loud protestations of Picard, who believes Starfleet is betraying its principles.

Eventually Picard would discover that the Federation had inadvertently involved themselves in a blood feud between the Son'a and Ba'ku; after defeating the Son'a's efforts to harvest their homeworld, Picard returned peace to the Ba'ku.

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Star Trek: Nemesis (2379)

The (seemingly) final big screen adventure for the cast of TNG , Nemesis saw some big changes for the crew of the Enterprise-E. Commander William Riker and Counselor Deanna Troi got married, with Riker promoted to captain of the USS Titan. The film's main plot revolves around a clone of Picard called Shinzon - played by a young Tom Hardy - who takes control of the Romulan Empire with the help of the Remans, the species that inhabits Romulus' sister planet, Remus.

In a last ditch effort to save both Picard and the Enterprise, Data sacrifices his life, destroying Shinzon's ship as he stands on its bridge. Data's sacrifice would deeply affect Picard, and represent something of a turning point in the captain's life.

Star Trek: Lower Decks (2380)

Set a year after the events of Nemesis , Lower Decks offers a lighthearted take on the final frontier, focusing on the lower ranked crew members of the USS Cerritos. Lower Decks primarily follows Ensigns Brad Boimler and Beckett Mariner as they attend to menial tasks and worry about promotions and making their bosses happy. The show has only had one season so far, but has already established itself as a fun, worthy entry in the Star Trek canon.

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Star Trek (2387/Kelvin Timeline 2233/Kelvin Timeline 2258)

This one is tricky. Directed by JJ Abrams, Star Trek was framed as something of a reboot, but was in fact the beginning of an alternate reality story. In 2387, a star explodes and threatens to wipe out billions of people, including the entire planet of Romulus. Spock vows to save as many lives as he can by creating a black hole in the heart of the supernova, but he's too late to save Romulus. A Romulan mining ship, commanded by the vengeful Nero, intercepts Spock after he creates the black hole, and in the altercation both ships are pulled into the black hole and thrown back in time.

Nero arrives first, in the year 2233, where he immediately decimates the USS Kelvin, a Starfleet ship carrying the parents of James Kirk. Kirk's mother survives and gives birth to the future captain, but Kirk's father is killed, altering his future considerably and establishing what would be known as the Kelvin timeline. But fate has a way of intervening, and by 2258 - when Spock finally comes through the wormhole - Kirk is well on his way to becoming the captain we all know and love, despite having lived a very different life.

Star Trek Into Darkness (Kelvin Timeline 2259)

Set a year after the events of Abrams' first alternate reality film, Into Darkness sees the crew of the Enterprise take on a new version of Khan, who has had a massively altered life as well. Rather than being discovered by the Enterprise in 2267, Khan's derelict ship was discovered much earlier by Starfleet's Section 31 , essentially the black ops wing of the organization. Section 31 - led by the shady Admiral Marcus - awakens Khan and keeps his follower in cryogenic freeze as the threat by which they can control him.

Things, of course, go very badly, and Kirk and Spock switch roles from The Wrath of Khan as Kirk sacrifices himself to save the Enterprise. With the help of Khan's superhuman blood, however, Kirk is revived, already having defeated one of his most cunning enemies - for now.

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Star Trek Beyond (Kelvin Timeline 2262)

About halfway into their five year deep space mission, the crew of the Enterprise find themselves under attack by the mysterious Krall, who has a dangerous drone army at his disposal. Krall actually manages to destroy the Enterprise (yet again) - taking most of the crew hostage in the process. Kirk, who was able to avoid capture along with Chekov and Scotty, eventually frees the Enterprise crew and defeats Krall, who turns out to be a former Starfleet officer who feels the Federation failed him. Beyond is a fun, exciting entry in the franchise, and if it is indeed the final installment in the Kelvin timeline, it's a great way to go out.

Star Trek: Picard (2399)

Set 20 years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis , Star Trek: Picard finds its titular character still deeply affected by Data's death, as well as the destruction of Romulus by the supernova. A mysterious young woman named Dahj - with an unexpected connection to Data - darkens Picard's doorway, on the run from Romulan agents, and the good captain finds himself back in action once again.

The show would also reintroduce fan favorites like Riker and Troi, as well as Voyager's Seven of Nine, who has been changed drastically by the intervening years. Star Trek: Picard is the first entry in the franchise since Nemesis that moves the primary timeline forward , and closes out the 24th century in shocking, rewarding ways.

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Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 (3188-3189)

After jumping into the future to stop the rogue artificial intelligence Control from destroying all organic life in the galaxy, Michael Burnham and the USS Discovery find themselves in an unfamiliar era. The Federation - and interstellar space travel in general - were ravaged by an event called The Burn , which happened about a hundred years prior to Discovery's arrival. The Burn was the day that almost all dilithium - the energy source that powers all warp engines - detonated, destroying most starships in service and massively changing the galactic power structure.

It's yet to be seen how the Discovery will cope in this new world, but it seems likely they'll bring the hope and progressivism inherent in the best of Star Trek with them into this dark new age.

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10 Best Sci-Fi Tropes Star Trek Popularized

Star Trek changed the face of science fiction, and opened up previously obscure genre tropes to a wider audience. Here are ten of the most memorable.

Star Trek changed the face of science fiction forever. Even before its popularity took off during the reruns and conventions of the 1970s, Star Trek: The Original Series endeavored to talk about more than just rocket ships and ray guns. It posited something extraordinary -- a viable vision of human utopia -- and slowly built it into a pop-culture bedrock.

In the process, it embraced a number of sci-fi tropes that other movies and TV shows came to emulate. Star Trek’s popularity elevated the profile of such notions, which had previously been limited to a few novels and short stories. Below is a list of ten classic sci-fi tropes that Star Trek helped make popular, presented in subjective order.

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Ray guns were certainly nothing new when Star Trek came along, having served as a sci-fi staple since the days of H.G. Wells. The Original Series draws on the likes of Fantastic Planet and the Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon serials for inspiration, which invariably made copious use of the weapons. It's only natural that Star Trek would deliver its own version, with the slightly more innovative title of phasers.

What really sets the weapon apart from other ray guns, however, is the stun setting, allowing targets to be neutralized without permanent harm. The phrase “set phasers to stun” has become one of Star Trek’s signature lines . More importantly, the weapon’s nonlethal qualities speaks to the franchise’s values: envisioning a future in which violence has been tempered.

9 The Alien Non-Interference Clause

Better known as The Prime Directive, the alien non-interference clause states that no member of Starfleet can interfere with a planet’s natural development. That includes anything from providing advanced technology to revealing the existence of off-world life. It makes for a strong moral dilemma, as figures like Jean Luc-Picard must stand by while terrible things happen to innocent people.

Not surprisingly, the Prime Directive is noted more in its breach than its keeping. James T. Kirk, in particular, is quite cavalier about it, but it remains an easy fulcrum for good storytelling. The Prime Directive is also a way to talk about more down-to-earth issues like colonialism and environmental devastation.

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8 human/alien hybrids.

The existence of humanoid aliens precludes the ability to cross-breed, producing children with the genetics of both parents. With Star Trek , the notion goes all the way back to Mr. Spock: the product of a human mother and a Vulcan father. The other prominent canon examples include Star Trek: Voyager’s B’Elanna Torres, the child of a Klingon mother and a human father, and Worf’s son Alexander on Star Trek: The Next Generation , who also has human blood.

Such characters help science fiction explore the exchanges between different societies, as well as the unique challenges faced by the children of two or more cultures. That can lead to simplification or dismissal of complex issues. The trope is only as strong as the TV show using it, but it also gives creators a safe space to discuss those issues before a wider audience.

7 Fantastic Racism

Racism is a weighty issue and addressing it head-on won’t always fly on a series intended primarily as entertainment. Instead, Star Trek talks about racism in a more general way, using alien cultures as a stand-in for various kinds of prejudicial oppression. In the simplest terms, it helps point out the fundamental absurdity of racist beliefs, most notably in The Original Series Season 3, Episode 15, “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield,” which features Frank Gorshin’s black-and-white alien at war with this white-and-black cohort.

Fantastic racism isn’t a perfect trope, and can often whitewash real problems by casting them in the realm of fiction. But it also allows shows like Star Trek to address those issues while still retaining a vision of a more mature humanity who has set such petty hatefulness aside. For good or ill, it certainly allowed other science fiction projects to follow its example.

6 Alien Empires

Humanoid aliens necessitate an essentially human political process, which Star Trek uses as one of its narrative bedrocks. Other entities such as the Klingons and the Romulans don’t necessarily embrace democracy, and have their own agendas that often conflict with the Federation’s. This leads to various schemes, conflicts and outright wars: generating easy storylines and culminating in epic clashes like Deep Space Nine’s Dominion War.

Alien empires predate science fiction movies, going back at least to H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds and the John Carter novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Original Series uses them as thinly veiled stand-ins for contemporary geopolitical foes like the Soviet Union or China under Chairman Mao. Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent series have developed their aliens more fully, while providing new narrative material in concepts like the Klingons’ Great Houses and The Romulans’ Qowat Milat.

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5 alternate history.

Star Trek originally used the Stardate notion to get around the question of exactly when the story was taking place. It took 1982's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan to pinpoint its 23rd century setting. Even before then, however, it built its own future history without the slightest inkling of the franchise it was helping to create in the process.

Star Trek's alternate history comes complete with developments like the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s (swapped around to account for the passing of real time) and Zephram Cochrane breaking the warp barrier. The timeline allows new projects to develop their own stories at different points on the timeline. Subsequent franchises like Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe have done much the same thing.

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4 parallel realities.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has made the notion of a Multiverse widespread, and written works such as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle form the foundation of the idea. But Star Trek brought parallel realities to popular attention long before more modern projects, most notably with Season 2, Episode 4, "Mirror, Mirror." That episode introduced the notion of the sinister Mirror Universe, which the franchise has used in other projects as well.

Star Trek continues to play with parallel realities, and indeed the concept has created some of its finest moments such as Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 15, "Yesterday's Enterprise." The Kelvinverse series of movies similarly exist in a parallel reality, allowing them to tell their own stories without risking undue continuity errors.

3 Rogue AI/Robots

Rogue AIs go back to the foundation of science fiction, as Mary Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein creates a being he can’t control. Star Trek’s utopian setting makes fertile ground for stories of science to run amuck, with each new era adding its own distinctive touch. The Original Series has the berserk robot Nomad and the M-5 "ultimate computer." Star Trek: Discovery uses the AI Control as its primary antagonist during Season 2, while The Next Generation may have topped them all with the Borg Collective. Even Star Trek: Lower Decks has gotten into the act with the likes of Badgey and Peanut Hamper.

The trend certainly didn't begin with Star Trek , but it made the public increasingly familiar with the notion, while removing it from the more literal image of a Boris Karloff-style monster. As technology has advanced, it's allowed the franchise to continue using it: making pointed comments on contemporary issues behind the veneer of science fiction.

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2 cool starships.

Before The Original Series , sci-fi spaceships tended to come in two types: rockets and flying saucers. The original USS Enterprise manages to look like both at the same time, while giving Star Trek a singular visual image that sums up its entire zeitgeist. It becomes a character in and of itself during the first crew’s adventures, to the point where its destruction in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock initially elicited cries of grief among the faithful.

Subsequent series have made distinctive ship design a priority: giving them a brand identity distinctive from the rest of the franchise while still being resolutely Star Trek . Other creators took note, as 2001: A Space Odyssey's Discovery and Star Wars's Millennium Falcon emphasize visual distinctiveness to sell their worlds. The flying saucer is well and truly dead, and The Original Series' Enterprise may have killed it.

Star Trek’s best known piece of future technology arose out of a logistical necessity. Having created an iconic spaceship in the USS Enterprise , series creator Gene Roddenberry realized he had no way of landing it on the surface of the different planets the show was supposed to visit. Teleporting down via the ship’s transporters made an elegant solution, avoiding the clumsy logistics of a shuttle and providing a nifty effects shot to boot. It also allowed for easy drama, as Scotty invariably pulled the away team up from the planet's surface in the nick of time.

While it never caught on with other science fiction projects, that kept it a singular part of the franchise itself: never duplicated lest the presented be accused of imitating Star Trek . The rest of the public need not act with such care, of course, and "beam me up" has become a short-hand term for the desire to escape any unpleasant situation.

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Published Feb 10, 2017

Looking Back at "Far Beyond The Stars"

It's a fun argument, with almost too many options to consider, but, to us, the answer to the question What was the single best episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ? is " Far Beyond the Stars ." The extraordinary hour of television -- which debuted on February 11, 1998 -- or 19 years ago today -- was directed by Avery Brooks and gave us a Prophets-inspired vision of 1950s science-fiction writer Benny Russell struggling to overcome racism and prejudice as he aspires to tell the adventures of Benjamin Sisko, who, centuries in the future, captains a certain space station."Far Beyond the Stars" succeeds on several levels. It’s pure science-fiction. It’s fantastic Star Trek . It’s a showcase for Brooks as both a performer and director. All of the show’s regulars and recurring actors get in on the action, playing vastly different roles than usual. It’s full of in-jokes. And best of all, we get to see the likes of Armin Shimerman, Rene Auberjonois, Nana Visitor, Michael Dorn, Jeffrey Combs, Marc Alaimo and J.G. Hertzler, among others, out of makeup.To celebrate the 19th anniversary of “Far Beyond the Stars,” StarTrek.com is pleased to share some facts, figures and anecdotes, as well as quotes we beamed up from Shimerman, Visitor, Dorn and Combs. Season 6 "Far Beyond the Stars," written by Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler based on a story by Marc Scott Zicree, was the 13th episode of DS9 's sixth season. Stars, Cold and Distant

The episode’s working title was "The Cold and Distant Stars."Oh, That's DisgustingOne of the episode's many amusing bits of dialogue, spoked by Terry Farrell as Darlene Kursky: “Oh! She's got a worm in her belly!... Oh, that's disgusting. That's interesting, but that's disgusting.”

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Star Trek: Discovery Just Brought Back Two Classic TV Tropes

This article contains spoilers for the latest episode of "Star Trek: Discovery."

For many Trekkies, "Star Trek: Discovery" has always felt a little like the younger brother clinging onto the franchise's back. The sky-high stakes that always seem to threaten the universe, the heavily serialized nature from episode to episode, and even the way these heart-on-their-sleeve characters carry themselves throughout their duties ("...like best buds at a slumber party," as /Film's Jacob Hall put it succinctly in his review for the season 5 premiere ) has all but screamed the fact that this show was meant for younger, more modern audiences.

So imagine our surprise when episode 4 of this final season suddenly dipped into its bag of tricks to unleash not one, but two classic examples of TV tropes that hearken back to the days of "The Original Series." The "time bug" kicks everything off, catching Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Commander Rayner (Callum Keith Rennie) in the most quintessential of Trekkian problems: a time loop. Although not unfamiliar territory for our heroes — this isn't even the first time "Discovery" has gone back to this well, as season 1's "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" deals with similar temporal shenanigans — what does  make this episode stand apart is the fact that this plot serves two important purposes.

For one thing, it allows the writers to reuse a handful of the exact same interior sets of the USS Discovery for practically the entire hour, making this  a bottle episode . Secondly, when Burnham travels back in time and re-experiences previous events in the show's history all over again, it's kind of like a Trekkian twist on the idea of a clip show . Together, "Face the Strange" becomes one of the show's quirkiest episodes yet.

Starship in a bottle

Is that a bottle in your episode, or are you just happy to see me? Okay, that wasn't the smoothest segue I've ever written but, much like the lesson learned by Burnham and Rayner by the end of this week's episode of "Discovery," a rough start doesn't necessarily have to be the final word. The pair discovers this the hard way in what essentially turns out to be an homage to a tried-and-true television trope.

Originally conceived as a measure to cut corners and save money when a season ran the risk of going over budget, bottle episodes have always been a win-win situation for everyone involved. The producers and studio bean counters, naturally, will be happy with anything that saves them a tough conversation with the bosses. And although fans these days typically look at constraints as an unequivocal disadvantage for artists, there's actually something freeing about the process where writers are forced to come up with unique scenarios and creative storylines by thinking outside the box — simply to justify using only the same few sets, a handful of actors, and a less extravagant vision.

For instance, a typical episode of "Discovery" tends to involve away missions to far-flung locales, space battles with enemy ships firing lasers, and all sorts of VFX-dominated mayhem. This time around, however, all of the action (outside of the opening few minutes, that is) takes place entirely within the confines of the USS Discovery ... and constantly in the exact same rooms and hallways, too. The Captain's ready room gets a steady workout, as does Paul Stamets' (Anthony Rapp) place in Engineering. Otherwise, we really only ever return to generic hallways, the elevator, and the bridge. Yet despite the small scale, "Discovery" embarks on its most high-concept adventure yet.

Highlight reel

Oh, we're taking things all the way back to the beginning. With the news that the fifth season of "Discovery" would also be its last , it stood to reason that showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Michelle Paradise would take a victory lap of sorts while also treating longtime viewers to a bit of a nostalgia tour. Episode 4 killed both birds with one stone by incorporating the other trick up its sleeve: putting its own sci-fi stamp on the clip-show episode.

Although a rarity in recent years, those of us who grew up on sitcoms know all too well the joys ( and, to be frank, the cringe ) of the clip show — an even more extreme example of cutting costs by literally just re-airing old footage. Thankfully, "Discovery" adds a fresh wrinkle to this trope. Rather than hit pause on the ongoing plot and bring things to a screeching halt for a hackneyed trip down memory lane, the writing team instead makes this the entire point of Burnham's arc in the episode. First, the time loop forces her to relive several major events from seasons past, along with certain ones that she wasn't actually present to witness firsthand. She experiences the Discovery crew's perspective of traveling through the wormhole in the season 3 premiere and ending up far in the future, their desperate battle against the artificial intelligence Control in season 2, and even a fight against her own younger version from season 1.

"Discovery" could've easily settled for channeling its inner "Groundhog Day" or, more relevantly, the time-travel hijinks of "The Constant" episode from "Lost," but instead we receive a mini-highlight reel reminding us of everything this crew has survived together. It doesn't get much more "Trek" than that.

New episodes of "Discovery" stream on Paramount+ every Thursday.