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The crew of the USS Enterprise explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy, who puts them, and everything the Federation stands for, to the te... Read all The crew of the USS Enterprise explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy, who puts them, and everything the Federation stands for, to the test. The crew of the USS Enterprise explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy, who puts them, and everything the Federation stands for, to the test.

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• Trivia After production on the film was completed, and a month before the release, Anton Yelchin died in a freak vehicle accident at age 27. During the ending credits, there is a dedication that reads, "For Anton." J.J. Abrams announced that Chekov would not be recast, "I would say you can't replace him. There will be no new casting. I can't imagine that, and I think Anton deserves better."
• Goofs The amount of ships and soldiers that the enemy has in its swarm changes dramatically during the final battle, from a few thousand to tens/hundreds of thousands when they attack the station. However, previously in the film, it is stated that the planet has deep and large underground caverns so it is entirely possible that there were more ships underground. Also, the amount of soldiers that would be needed to pilot all the ships would be huge as it was shown that they contain at least one soldier in each ship. But when they were watching the video logs near the film's ending, Captain Edison clearly states that they found drones. It is quite possible that the bulk of the enemy fleet is made up of drones and controlled by the hive mind that the music disrupts.

Doctor 'Bones' McCoy : [after removing shrapnel from Spock] Yeah. They say it hurts less if it's a surprise.

Commander Spock : If I may adopt a parlance with which you are familiar, I can confirm your theory to be horseshit.

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2016 • PG-13 Years into their five-year mission, the crew of the Enterprise find themselves deep in uncharted space where they encounter a new enemy who challenges them and everything the Federation stands for.

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| June 17, 2020 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 21 comments so far

Good news for frugal Trekkies : Eight of the Star Trek feature films are coming to IMDb’s free streaming service, including Star Trek Beyond .

Watch Star Trek movies for free at IMDb TV

IMDb TV, Amazon’s free streaming service, will be the exclusive free streaming home for eight Star Trek feature films. This begins today with three of them, including 2016’s Star Trek Beyond , the latest film in the franchise, which stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Karl Urban. Also available today are Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek: First Contact .

Chris Pine as Kirk with Anton Yelchin as Chekov and John Cho as Sulu in Star Trek Beyond

On July 1, IMDb TV will add five more films to the service:  Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , Star Trek Generations , and Star Trek: Nemesis .

IMDb TV is a free streaming service in the USA with thousands of premium movies and television shows , but promising half the ads of traditional television.  IMDb TV is available as an app on Fire TV, a free Channel within the Prime Video, and IMDb apps across hundreds of devices and also available on the IMDb website .

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This – of course – is an area limited thing: “This title isn’t available in your location”

So there are still ads. No thank you.

Besides, I have all those films on disc so I don’t need to be concerned with what service currently has the rights to what movie or what series.

It is FREE! Obviously beggars can’t be choosers. And stuff like this is for mostly casual fans. Most hardcore fans will either already own the movies as you do through a disc, digital copy or just watch them on other dedicated streaming sites.

I have AA, Prime and Hulu and between those three I can see all the movies minus the Kelvin ones.

You don’t have Netflix

I do, but oddly there are no Star Trek movies on there, at least not in America. I don’t think its had one for years at this point. But both Amazon and Hulu has over half and a few they have the same titles like First Contact, TWOK and TUC.

But these movies should have at least one dedicated site you can watch them all in one place like Disney+ has for Star Wars. I imagine some day they will just end up on AA but that could be years away, especially with the Kelvin movies which are probably licensed in a lot of places right now.

Netflix don’t have any of the movies in Europe either. All series except Picard, but no movies.

Wow interesting! It’s really odd how the shows seem to be such a fixture on the streaming sites everywhere, especially here in America where the shows are currently on four sites (AA, Hulu, Netflix and Amazon) and been on them for years now. And they are always together, at least classic Trek, TOS-ENT.

But the movies are more sporadic, never as a whole like having all the TNG movies and seem to come and go.

@Tiger2: This is just a wild guess but CBS may have sold streaming rights to TOS-ENT as a package deal years ago. For more than 10 years this was the whole Star Trek TV franchise.

I don’t know if Paramount didn’t try the same for the movies or if streaming services didn’t bite.

Oh yeah I agree. I think that’s the power of Star Trek too, at least the shows that they are popular enough you can sell it as a package because they know all the shows will get watched. Some more than others obviously but the fanbase itself watches it all since its all connected and all the shows have a fanbase today.

It’s just odd how the movies aren’t done the same way. I mean even if you can’t package all of them since it is a lot of movies it’s odd how you just can’t get all the TOS or TNG movies in one place. There is always a few missing from each series no matter what. It’s very different from other movie series that lands on these sites. I never not seen all the Back to the Future movies together or not all the Indiana Jones movies together and so on. Even Hulu had all the James Bonds movies at one point (and maybe still does) minus the Daniel Craig ones. It’s harder when its newer stuff like the MCU movies (and there are a lot lol) but the TOS and TNG movies are old now and yet they are rarely packaged together and never seem to last long on a streaming site.

In fact two Star Trek films were on AA about two years ago, Nemesis and TUC before they were taken off…and now they’re back.

I hate ads, but I also hate the idea of supporting Amazon, so that makes this service a hard no for me.

You have First Contact listed as both July 1 and currently available.

It’s free but there are ads. No thank you. At least watching Star Trek for free is a nice trade-off.

I would prefer this to be on Netflix. I have Hulu, Netflix, and Disney+. The only free streaming service.

Do we really need IMDB TV?

Not really, there are too much streaming services already

Do we really need free things? Sure.

Who is “we”? Some people may enjoy a free way to see movies/shows that they don’t own or that are otherwise only available on paid services.

Whether anybody really “needs” IMDB TV or any other streaming service for that matter is a different question. Streaming entertainment is certainly not comparable to food or air to breathe…

I can hear the Dire Straits singing for it now.

“I want my IMDBtv”

Why are you always writing such news in an US-centric perspective? There are over 190 countries in the world, and there is a HUGE Trekkie community outside of the US. But IMDB TV is only available in the US. This is something that you conveniently leave out of your news. It seems that you only think about your own country and don’t even bother about the rest of us. Just like your President.

That really pisses me off!

We cover international events and streaming as well, including mentioning the international releases in our recent SHORT TREKS review. We have had teams cover cons and red carpets in UK, Germany, Australia and elsewhere. We have a couple of UK members on the contributor team as well as people in Canada.

But, TrekMovie is based in the USA. The majority of visitors are from USA. And most of the Star Trek news emerges from the USA.

If there are important news and events from overseas you feel we should share please let us know by sending in tips at trekmovie dot com.

thanks for the feedback

Burke, Trekmovie is an American website. Majority of the contributors lives in America as well. They aren’t doing it to spite you, as said they have other people to cover international news but the overwhelming majority is going to be American based. Especially since Star Trek is an American franchise and probably where most of its audience is concentrated as well, so most of it will come from an American perspective.

Its not a global news site, it’s a fan board at the end of the day. They can only do so much.

funny to think that Beyond poster would’ve had Shatner on it (probably in one of those TMP style admiral uniforms) had they gone with the Orci version.. instead of the white face makeup alien girl :(also Pine probably not in the starlord jacket)

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Here's our Star Trek streaming guide, so you know where to go boldly where you've never gone before... Without leaving your sofa. We've come up with this Star Trek streaming guide because since the first ever episode aired back in 1966, there's been  a huge number of additions into the franchise. 

Star Trek is currently in a bit of a purple patch for content as Paramount Plus , which is the home of all things Star Trek, is responsible for several new shows in recent years. But, it's not just new content, you'll also find where to stream the classics both movies and TV series below. 

Before, Star Trek content was scattered all around different streaming services and searching for what you wanted to watch could feel like hunting for a cloaked Bird of Prey. However, these days you're able to stream all Star Trek content out there on Paramount Plus. However, we do have round-ups of the best sci-fi movies and TV shows on Netflix , Disney Plus and Amazon if you want to check them out. 

You can also check out our take on the Star Trek movies, ranked so you know which movies to beam up onto your device. While Paramount Plus has everything Star Trek out there, you can find the odd bit of content on other platforms. So, below you'll find where you can watch what, regardless of where you're based, in our Star Trek streaming guide.  

The Star Trek movies can be divided into three tidy groups: the original cast, the Next Generation cast, and the reboot cast. All of them can be found on Paramount+. However, Paramount+ isn't the only place you can stream the movies and in some cases you can rent or buy from places such as Amazon .

Here’s how to stream the Star Trek movies in the U.S., in order of release:

Star Trek: The Motion Picture — Paramount+ Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan — Paramount+ Star Trek III: The Search for Spock — Paramount+ Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home — Paramount+ Star Trek V: The Final Frontier — Paramount+ Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country — Paramount+ Star Trek: Generations — Paramount+ Star Trek: First Contact — Paramount+ Star Trek: Insurrection — Paramount+ , Spectrum Star Trek: Nemesis — Paramount+   Star Trek (2009) — Paramount+ , Pluto TV Star Trek Into Darkness — Paramount+ , Pluto TV Star Trek Beyond — Paramount+ , DIRECTV , Freevee

When it comes to Star Trek on the small screen, you can find them all in one place. Paramount+ not only has every episode of every legacy Trek show, it’s also the home of all the new Star Trek programming, such as Picard and Strange New Worlds. If you’re a Trekkie, you absolutely want to have Paramount+ to keep up with the object of your affection. A word of warning though, other streaming platforms may only have select episodes or series to stream.

Star Trek: The Original Series — Paramount+ , Pluto TV Star Trek: The Next Generation — Paramount+ , Pluto TV Star Trek: Deep Space Nine  — Paramount+ , Sling , Spectrum Star Trek: Voyager — Paramount+ , Pluto TV Star Trek: Enterprise — Paramount+ Star Trek: Discovery — Paramount+ , DIRECTV Star Trek: Picard — Paramount+ Star Trek: Short Treks — Paramount+ Star Trek: Lower Decks — Paramount+ Star Trek: Prodigy — Paramount+ ,   DIRECTV , FuboTV , Spectrum Star Trek: The Animated Series — Paramount+ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — Paramount+

Now that Paramount+ has arrived in the U.K, streaming Star Trek is a lot easier. You can view most of the movies on the streaming platform. Star Trek Beyond is the exception but that can be found on Amazon Prime. If you're not prepared to subscribe to Paramount+, the movies are available to rent or buy from a number of different platforms. 

Star Trek: The Motion Picture — Paramount+ Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan — Paramount+ Star Trek III: The Search for Spock — Paramount+ Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home — Paramount+ Star Trek V: The Final Frontier — Paramount+ Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country — Paramount+ Star Trek: Generations — Paramount+ Star Trek: First Contact — Paramount+ Star Trek: Insurrection — Paramount+ Star Trek: Nemesis — Paramount+ Star Trek (2009) — Paramount+ , Amazon Prime Star Trek Into Darkness — Paramount+ , Amazon Prime Star Trek Beyond — Amazon Prime

Now that Paramount+ has reached those across the pond, the U.K. can enjoy streaming Star Trek shows as well. Netflix is also another great option to fulfil your Trekkie viewing needs, especially if you're interested in checking out Star Trek: The Animated Series, which is exclusive to Netflix. 

However, for the likes of Picard and Lower Decks, you’ll have to hop on over to Amazon Prime. It's worth noting that platforms such as SkyGo may only have a select number of episodes or series to stream.

Star Trek: The Original Series —   Netflix , Paramount+ Star Trek: The Next Generation — Netflix , Paramount+ , SkyGo Star Trek: Deep Space Nine  — Netflix , Paramount+ Star Trek: Voyager — Netflix , Paramount+ Star Trek: Enterprise — Netflix , Paramount+ Star Trek: Discovery — Paramount+ Star Trek: Picard — Amazon Prime Video , Paramount+ Star Trek: Short Treks — N/A Star Trek: Lower Decks — Amazon Prime Video Star Trek: Prodigy — Paramount+ , SkyGo Star Trek: The Animated Series — Netflix Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — Paramount+

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'Star Trek Beyond' boldly brings the fun back to Trek (spoiler-free review)

"Beyond" stumbles at the finishing line, but it's an excellent capstone to the rebooted Trek trilogy.

Simon Pegg, in his seminal geek sitcom " Spaced ", said, "It's a fact, sure as day follows night, sure as eggs is eggs, sure as every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is..." Well, not good.

Lucky him, he got to share screenplay duties with Doug Jung on " Star Trek Beyond ", the third movie in the rebooted series and the 13th installment in the Star Trek franchise overall. On Star Trek's 50th anniversary. But Pegg is a nerd's nerd, and he's broken his own rule with "Beyond". It's by no means perfect, but it brought back the fun, the freshness and the Trekness so sorely lacking in 2013's " Star Trek Into Darkness ".

On this particular voyage of the starship Enterprise, Kirk, Spock and company are three years into their five-year mission to explore deep space, and they're chugging along with a little listlessness and reluctance. Before long, the crew find themselves marooned on a hostile alien planet with no way to call for help and staring down the alien overlord Krall.

Captain Kirk and the mysterious Jaylah boldly go beyond in our exclusive art by comic artist Des Taylor.

The best thing about scattering the crew across an alien world is exploring relationships between characters who often don't get to share the screen. Chris Pine's Kirk and Zachary Quinto's Spock share only a few pivotal scenes, and it's good to see their lackluster chemistry taking a backseat.

In its place, scribes Pegg and Jung get to show off how well they understand the crew of the Enterprise. From McCoy and Spock's buddy-cop moments to Kirk and Scotty on rescue-mission duties, those relationships are where the movie really comes alive.

Beam me up, Jaylah. Scotty's jaw drops down as Jaylah's Maglite goes up.

Director Justin Lin, of " Fast and Furious " fame, is at the helm this time, and his influence is immediately obvious. The action sequences are packed in, and they're without exception brilliantly conceived, playing with motorcycles and gravity manipulation, to name a few.

A few of the fights staged on the ship interiors are cluttered and confusingly shot, but all's forgiven once you see the ships in action from the outside. The swarms of enemy ships dancing around the Enterprise look simply spectacular.

Idris Elba's menacing Krall serves as an excellent foil to Kirk, as the captain of the Enterprise struggles with his dedication to his crew and mission. Sadly, Krall needs more screen time than he gets, and the movie fumbles with a rushed explanation of his motives and origin.

That's par for the course though, with a couple of side characters who do things that would make infinitely more sense if we were given time to learn about them. Thankfully, the movie doesn't really live or die by these episodes.

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It's all about the crew, and it's clear that's where the screen time went. The new generation is as close to perfectly cast as can be, and three movies in, it's clear these characters are like a second skin for the actors. There's a dragged-out, saccharine epilogue to sit through once the business of saving the day is said and done. It's a forgivable indulgence in the end, with 50 years of Trek history to celebrate and a trilogy to farewell. (Not that the reboot series is ending here: there's interesting casting info out about the fourth movie .) And the fan service is still there, from a photo of the original cast in their Federation finery to more subtle nods like a cameo appearance by Sulu's daughter Demora.

"Beyond" is a Trek movie through and through, right down to the technobabble-infused plan to deal with Krall's fleet of enemy ships. Make no mistake, that one sequence is going to go down as one of the most divisive in Star Trek history. And it'd be completely ridiculous if it weren't perfectly executed in the pursuit of such reckless fun.

That's the real magic of "Beyond" -- Lin, Jung and Pegg know that it's OK to have fun with Star Trek, and they prove that 50 years on, the crew of the Enterprise has plenty left to give.

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The original release date of Star Trek Beyond was on 2016-07-07.

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Star Trek Beyond had a budget of 185 million USD.

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Star Trek Beyond grossed 343.5 million USD at the US box office.

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Star Trek Beyond is 122 minutes long.

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• ReelViews James Berardinelli Star Trek Beyond is a Star Trek movie, although not an especially good one.
• RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz The movie never delivers on its considerable promise because it's always in such a hurry to get to the next action scene.
• Rolling Stone Peter Travers Come to 'Star Trek Beyond' for the pow; stay for the emotional wipeout.
• AV Club Ignatiy Vishnevetsky The movie bounces along, hurtling its heroes over colliding wreckage and into currents of artificial gravity, pausing just long enough for a punchline or a knowing exchange of looks.
• Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer The actors work so well together that they reinforce the series' central appeal: This crew is like family.
• Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones Maybe if Star Trek Beyond were stupider it wouldn't feel like such a chore.
• National Catholic Register Steven D. Greydanus This is something that has been missing from Star Trek for a while: an arresting picture of a shiny, hopeful future worth dreaming of.
• Reel Talk Online Candice Frederick A fun popcorn movie that highlights the value of teamwork and a good playlist (priceless core values in life).
• MovieFreak.com Sara Michelle Fetters The best thing about Beyond is that it remembers that the core strength of Star Trek is the camaraderie and friendship of the Enterprise's leadership unit.
• National Newspaper Publishers Association Dwight Brown The result is a taut piece of filmmaking, with perfectly choreographed action scenes and a rapid-fire pace that only leaves time to gasp for air
• Salon.com Nico Lang "Beyond" is undoubtedly messy, like a Starfleet ship that's taken its fair share of beatings, but it is frequently a reminder of how good the series can be when all its engines are in working order.
• Flavorwire Jason Bailey 'Star Trek Beyond' is at its best - separating itself from not only an ugly pack of ostensibly enjoyable summer popcorn flicks, but 'Into Darkness' - when it's having fun, and at its worst when bogged down in the generic action/villain stuff.
• Chicago Reader J. R. Jones This third installment in the millennial Star Trek reboot races along without an idea in its head, often recalling the silly, monster-driven final season of the 60s TV show.
• The New Republic Tim Grierson Lin and his cast's clear affection for the material helps temper the familiarity. The Enterprise's mission was to explore strange new worlds. This movie's is to give us a smooth ride.
• New Yorker Anthony Lane It's not just a blast but, at moments, a thing of beauty, alive to the comic awesomeness of being lost in space.
• The Atlantic David Sims It's exactly the kind of fun, steeped in effervescent goodwill that Hollywood should be delivering right now.
• Christianity Today Alissa Wilkinson In a summer top-heavy with... depressing underachievers, Star Trek Beyond is a breath of fresh air -- not a clever or innovative movie, but one with at least an idea in its head and the dose of optimism we all need right about now.
• Detroit News Adam Graham Lin's flashy sense of stylized grit is lost in a sea of sci-fi noise as "Beyond" becomes a monotonous blur of space babble and battles.
• The Verge Tasha Robinson Until a richer villain and more thought-out story come along, we at least have this chapter, which offers fans of the original Trek world some of the things they've most wanted: space to enjoy all their old heroes, and reasons to respect them again.
• Vox Emily St. James It's a surprisingly joyful throwback to everything that makes the Star Trek universe great.

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"There's no relative direction in the vastness of space," a Starfleet high mucky-muck tells  Enterprise  Captain James T. Kirk ( Chris Pine ) in "Star Trek Beyond." "There's only you." She's asking him whether he wants to give up his captain's seat for a chance at a powerful desk job on the eve of his thirtieth birthday, a year younger than his father was when he died. Her language is meant to spur Kirk to look inward, and for a moment we might hope that he will, and that the film will look inward with him. 

There's a precedent for this sort of thing. Where all of the TV incarnations of " Star Trek " were mainly about morality and philosophy, with characterization serving as a means of examining those dramatic values, most of the big-screen film versions, including the '80s and '90s versions of the flagship TV show, were mainly concerned with the heroes' personalities. The screenplays gave us detailed examinations of, say, the relationship between Kirk and his half-Vulcan first officer Mr. Spock, between Kirk and the United Federation of Planets, between Kirk and the Klingons who tormented his civilization and killed his only son, and between all the characters (Kirk especially) and the prospect of aging and death. It was more soap opera than space opera at times, but always fun to watch, sometimes moving. 

What undermines "Star Trek Beyond" is that it's ultimately not interested in taking a long look at the "you" of Kirk, Spock ( Zachary Quinto ), ship's doctor "Bones" McCoy ( Karl Urban ), communications officer Uhura ( Zoe Saldana ), and the rest of the NCC-1701 crew. Sure, it nods in that direction. Even the worst "Star Trek" stories do. But in the end it's mostly a good big-budget sci-fi action movie that's been marinated in "Star Trek" flavor packets—and thus not terribly different from the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot or its sequel, " Star Trek Into Darkness ."

"Star Trek Beyond" pits the crew of the  Enterprise  against another bellowing megalomaniac ( Idris Elba ) who wants to punish the United Federation of Planets for its perceived sins. It's the best of the new "Trek" films, but it's still an unsatisfying effort if you want "Star Trek" to be something more than a military-minded outer space action flick, with familiar, beloved characters shoehorned into a standard mix of martial arts slugfests, close-quarters firefights, and scenes of starships and cities being shredded and burned. Advance publicity hyped "Star Trek Beyond" as a return to the original series' roots as a showcase for a bunch of eccentric personalities traveling the galaxy, ingeniously solving problems, and indulging in populist philosophizing about civilization and the frontier as they went along. But that's not what we get here—not really. 

Yes, there's a promising setup (the  Enterprise  crew is held hostage by a vicious bad guy who rules a backwater planet a la Kurtz in "Heart of Darkness"). And there are suggestions of classic "Star Trek" style action-plus-characterization-plus-cleverness, and pleasing performances by a cast that has settled into each others' rhythms, as a real-world naval crew would after years of sailing together. 

But the movie never delivers on its considerable promise because it's always in such a hurry to get to the next action scene. And aside from three magnificent setpieces—the first, crippling sneak attack by a fleet of tiny ships that swarm the  Enterprise  like explosive bees, and two vertigo-inducing chase-and-fight scenes in which geography goes all M.C. Escher on us—the action is not good enough to be the film's main course. Lin, who proved in the "Fast and Furious" series that he could do great or near-great action, here substitutes wobbly camerawork, chop-chop editing and rumbling sound effects for suspense and a sense of spatial design. It's a step up from the action in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" movies, but that's not the sort of thing one should brag about. A climactic reprise of a certain overused Beastie Boys song might be the franchise's low point, rivaled only by the laughable credits sequence of "Star Trek V," which cut from a helicopter shot of a lean young stuntman scaling a craggy peak in the Pyrenees to a close-up of the 57-year-old star/director Shatner's meaty hand in a studio, gripping a fiberglas "rock."

Simon Pegg and Doug Jung's screenplay provides the right amount of homage (as when Kirk grumbles after an opening action scene that he ripped his shirt again), plus Spock/McCoy odd-couple banter and some marvelous, character-based laugh lines (Scotty demands that Kirk give an opinion on one of his engineering improvisations, because "if I mess it up, I don't want it to be just my fault"). There's psychological nuance, irony, even a political subtext (Elba's character, Krall, a reptilian Che Guevara-type who wants the galaxy's "frontier" to "push back" against the Federation's expansionism). Too bad none of these aspects are filled out with the detail they deserve. Krail's fire-and-brimstone sermonizing is turned to nonsense by a pointless and self-defeating third act "twist"—like we need another one of those after the boneheaded fan service of "Darkness"!—and there are points late in the film where "Star Trek Beyond" seems jolted by the sudden remembrance of things that it told us it was going to deal with but didn't. 

Uhura spends most of the movie in a prison camp. Kirk, Spock and even McCoy have human moments, but they spend too much of their screen time sprinting through hallways, firing phaser pistols, and piloting spaceships while yelling and grimacing in tight closeup, like the heroes of every other science fiction-flavored action movie projected in theaters recently. Krall and other characters allude to the Federation's fake-benevolent brand of imperialism, but unless you're familiar with examples from elsewhere in the "Star Trek" universe or got briefed by a super-fan before buying a ticket, you'll leave with no sense of whether the villains' grievances are legitimate, much less if you're supposed to feel mixed emotions at Kirk's inevitable triumph.  

Spock, whose home planet was destroyed by a renegade Romulan warlord in the first movie, suffers most from the filmmakers' preoccupation with  pew-pew-pew! a ction-adventure. For three movies now, Spock's been carrying a crushing load of survivor's guilt. The character's barely disguised Jewishness, brilliantly articulated by the late Leonard Nimoy in the original TV and movie series, is more pronounced in the new franchise: he's been turned into a holocaust survivor, part of a fragile Vulcan diaspora haunted by genocide. But the scripts seem scared of treating Spock's predicament with the seriousness it deserves, much less daring to put it at the center of a film. Here it's treated mainly as an explanation for why Spock can't seem to keep a relationship going with Uhura. The death of Leonard Nimoy is integrated into the story by having Vulcan diplomats inform Spock of the death of Ambassador Spock, an alternate-universe incarnation of the character who dispensed advice and plot points to new Spock whenever the screenwriters painted themselves into a corner. The film's method of mourning Nimoy's Spock makes the Spockus ex machina  thing worse. New Spock mourns classic Spock as if the two were dear friends who had dinner every Monday at the same Chinese restaurant.

The missteps of writing and direction are more depressing when you consider the excellence of the core cast. Quinto and Saldana give the Spock-Uhura relationship and their own spotlight moments a lot more than the film gives them. Pegg is a hoot as Scotty, colorful but never hammy, though we may justifiably raise a Spock-like eyebrow at all the times that the actor-screenwriter lets his character save the day. Pine's Kirk seems to be morphing seamlessly into Shatner's, complete with surprising pauses and intonations, but he's more credible as a strong, respected leader; watch how the actor grows more calm and friendly whenever Kirk's bridge crew is becoming more agitated. Elba is such a strong presence throughout, even near the end, that it's a shame Krall is never granted the depth and complexity that his character keeps threatening to disclose. 

At this point it's worth asking what, if anything, this franchise is good for besides generating cash for Paramount and its above-the-line talent. Everything that made the original TV series and its follow-ups, small- and big-screen, seem so open-hearted, intelligent and playful is marginalized to make room for hyperactively edited action scenes and displays of hardware and production design. These are technically state-of-the-art but ultimately not all that different from what you see in most other CGI-driven action pictures, superhero as well as sci-fi—long, loud spectacles that are filled with people fighting, blowing up cities and planets, and crashing things into other things, instead of finding some other, more surprising way to move the plot along. What's the point of giving up pleasures that the "Star Trek" franchise is good at providing, to make more room for pleasures that most big-budget science fiction and fantasy already give us, month after month and year after year? Why boldly go where everyone else is already going? 

Matt Zoller Seitz

Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism.

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Star Trek Beyond (2016)

Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action and violence.

120 minutes

Chris Pine as Kirk

Zachary Quinto as Spock

Karl Urban as Bones

Zoe Saldana as Uhura

Simon Pegg as Scotty

John Cho as Sulu

Anton Yelchin as Chekov

Idris Elba as Krall

Sofia Boutella as Jaylah

Deep Roy as Keenser

Alice Eve as Dr. Carol Marcus

Writer (television series "Star Trek")

• Gene Roddenberry

Writer (uncredited)

• Roberto Orci
• Patrick McKay
• John D. Payne

Cinematographer

• Stephen F. Windon
• Greg D'Auria
• Dylan Highsmith
• Kelly Matsumoto
• Steven Sprung
• Michael Giacchino

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Star trek beyond ending & why no sequel 7 years later explained.

Star Trek Beyond set up a sequel for Chris Pine's Captain Kirk and the Kelvin Timeline crew, but it's 7 years later and we're yet to see Star Trek 4.

• Despite Star Trek: Beyond leaving room for further adventures, Star Trek 4 has yet to be released after 7 years.
• Star Trek Beyond introduced the USS Enterprise-A as the new starship for Kirk and his crew.
• The delays in creating a sequel to Star Trek Beyond may be due to pay disputes and the desire to compete with Marvel blockbusters.

Despite Star Trek: Beyond 's ending leaving the doors open for the further adventures of Chris Pine's Kelvin Timeline crew, it's now seven years after the movie's release, and Star Trek 4 is yet to surface. Star Trek Beyond , the third entry in the J.J. Abrams' produced Star Trek movies, stranded the USS Enterprise crew on the planet Altamid. Discovering an abandoned Starfleet vessel from a century earlier, it's revealed that Krall and his army are the mutated crew of the USS Franklin, and Krall has been plotting his revenge against the Federation ever since crashing on Altamid decades ago.

While Kirk and Spock are considering their futures in Star Trek Beyond , there was never any indication that this was intended to be the final Kelvin Timeline movie. Captain Kirk has lost faith in his five-year mission and has applied to become Vice Admiral of the revolutionary new starbase, the Yorktown. Meanwhile, the death of Ambassador Spock (Leonard Nimoy) has forced his younger self to consider leaving Starfleet and continuing Spock's diplomatic work on New Vulcan. By the end of Star Trek Beyond , Kirk and Spock realized they belonged aboard the USS Enterprise together and prepared to continue their five-year mission. Seven years later, audiences are yet to see that mission play out on the big screen.

Star Trek Beyond's Ending & How Kirk Beat Krall Explained

Krall had been tracking the USS Enterprise since it took possession of an ancient artifact that was the final component needed to complete the construction of the Abronath, a devastating ancient bioweapon. With the Abronath in his possession, Krall and his swarm set off for the Yorktown to wipe out its inhabitants. Giving chase in the USS Franklin, Kirk, and the crew first had to weaken Krall's swarm. Spock and Doctor Leonard "Bones" McCoy (Karl Urban) beamed aboard one of the swarm ships to throw off their formation, allowing the Franklin to destroy the ships by using "Sabotage" Kirk's favorite Beastie Boys song as a discordant and disruptive noise.

With the Swarm destroyed, Kirk discovered the truth about Krall, that he was actually the embittered war veteran Captain Balthazar Edison. Krall had survived the destruction of the Swarm and still intended to use the Abronath by unleashing it into Yorktown's atmospheric regulator to wipe out all life aboard the space station. Kirk and Krall fought in the central atmospheric regulator, with the Enterprise Captain attempting to prevent Krall from unleashing the weapon. With help from Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott (Simon Pegg), Kirk was able to override the regulator and eject Krall, and the Abronath into the vacuum of space.

Star Trek Beyond Launched The USS Enterprise-A

With the original USS Enterprise destroyed in the spectacular first act of Star Trek Beyond , Kirk needed a new ship after saving Yorktown. The USS Enterprise-A is teased by Commodore Paris (Shohreh Aghdashloo) when she says that the only other ship capable of navigating the nebula near Altamid isn't near completion. With the Enterprise destroyed on Altamid, this new starship was presumably hastily renamed so that the Federation could retain its flagship.

As the Enterprise crew gathered to celebrate Captain Kirk's birthday at the end of Star Trek Beyond , they looked out admiringly at their new starship - the USS Enterprise-A. The construction of the new starship appeared to signal the ongoing adventures of Kirk and the crew. However, to date, the new Enterprise hasn't been put through its paces on the big screen, as Star Trek 4 is perennially delayed by multiple behind-the-scenes issues.

Why Kirk Is Not Vice Admiral & Enterprise Crew Changes

Kirk's heroic efforts guaranteed him the position of Vice Admiral aboard the Yorktown, however, he ultimately declined it. In a callback to the advice his Prime Universe counterpart once gave Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), he decided that there's no fun in becoming a deskbound Admiral. Instead, he was revitalized by his experiences on Altamid and realized that it was an adventure and the chance to " fly" that he really wanted, not promotion. Spock, meanwhile, discovered an old photo of the Prime Universe Enterprise crew, considerably older than their Kelvin Timeline counterparts. Realizing that he had made friends for life, he decided not to leave Starfleet for New Vulcan. Touchingly, Kirk and Spock never voice their doubts to each other, an unspoken acknowledgment of their importance to each other.

Some Enterprise crew members were tragically killed during the fight with Krall, including Ensign Syl (Melissa Roxburgh) who hid the artifact for Kirk. However, Star Trek Beyond teases a potential addition to J.J. Abrams' Star Trek cast in the form of Jaylah. Kirk got her fast-tracked into Starfleet Academy, suggesting that she may have returned as Ensign Jaylah in Star Trek 4 . It's hard to tell if the production problems with Star Trek 4 will make Jaylah's return more, or less, likely.

Star Trek Beyond Lost Leonard Nimoy & Anton Yelchin

Leonard Nimoy's death in 2015 is acknowledged by the passing of Ambassador Spock in Star Trek Beyond . Even in death, Nimoy's Spock influenced the Kelvin Timeline version, as his personal effects revealed the lifelong friendships that his younger self had formed. It was a touching tribute to the legacy of Leonard Nimoy, that also acknowledged Star Trek 's 50th anniversary when Star Trek Beyond was released in 2016.

Tragically, Anton Yelchin was killed in a freak motoring accident at his home a month before Star Trek Beyond 's theatrical release. It's for this reason that the movie ends with a dedication to Anton Yelchin, and Star Trek Beyond is a wonderful tribute to his portrayal of Ensign Pavel Chekov. Yelchin gets some great action sequences and comedy moments which he always excelled at as Chekov. Another tribute to Anton Yelchin was recently made with Star Trek: Picard 's President Anton Chekov (Walter Koenig).

Why Star Trek Beyond Hasn't Had A Sequel In 7+ Years

There have been multiple attempts to realize Star Trek 4 since 2016, with one possible version set to bring back Chris Hemsworth as Lt. George Kirk in a time travel movie. Another Star Trek 4 script, co-written by Quentin Tarantino was due to be a cinematic adaptation of the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "A Piece of the Action", involving a planet whose society was inspired by 1920s Chicago gangsters. For whatever reason, neither of these projects got off the ground, though it's been suggested that pay disputes put paid to the "Two Kirks" movie idea.

Chris Pine's Star Trek 4 plan hints as to why it's taken so long for a Star Trek Beyond sequel to surface. His reference to Paramount wanting Star Trek to compete with the big blockbusters of Marvel Studios is particularly telling. Although far from being a flop, Star Trek Beyond didn't perform as strongly at the box office as expected. Clearly, the various scripts drafted for Star Trek 4 haven't inspired much hope for big box office returns in the eyes of Paramount's studio heads. Ironically, the delays in getting a workable script that can compete with the Marvel Cinematic Universe led to director Matt Shakman departing the project for Marvel 's Fantastic Four .

Prior to the ongoing industrial action in Hollywood, a script was being written by Lindsey Beer and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, with J.J. Abrams calling it the closest to 2009's Star Trek in terms of quality of story. The ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes will have delayed work on Star Trek 4 even further. While Paramount Studios long ago abandoned their plan to have Star Trek 4 released in 2023, it's no longer clear exactly when audiences can expect the movie to hit theaters.

Star Trek Beyond Influenced Star Trek On Paramount Plus

While Star Trek as a movie franchise appears to be in a state of flux, the streaming era has allowed it to make a hugely successful return to TV. However, the DNA of J.J. Abrams' Kelvin Timeline movies is shared by these new Star Trek TV shows. It's telling that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is focusing on younger versions of Spock, Uhura, and Kirk, who were arguably the main trio in the first of Abrams' Trek movies. Also, Captain Pike's Enterprise is as sleek and cinematic as the one seen in the Star Trek movies.

Similarly, the uniforms worn by the crew in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds reflect the movie costumes worn by Chris Pine and the cast. While Strange New Worlds is episodic, shows like Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Discovery have told huge movie-style stories across whole seasons. If Star Trek Beyond is truly the end for Star Trek 's Kelvin Timeline, its legacy will live on in the franchise's TV renaissance, truly made possible by the success of the movies that proved there was still an appetite for Gene Roddenberry's vision.