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Full Cast of Star Trek Beyond - Every Actor & Character In the Movie

With the future of Star Tr e k ’s Kelvin Timeline reboot movies in a seemingly-continuous limbo, here’s a list of every character who appeared in the most recent entry from 2016: Star Trek Beyond .

Around the early-to-mid 2000s, the Star Trek franchise was stagnating. Following Enterprise ’s cancellation and the box-office bombing of Paramount’s then-newest Trek film, Star Trek: Nemesis , the studio decided it was time for a change. 

A reboot was conceived under the leadership of J.J. Abrams who went on to direct two movies, 2009’s Star Trek and its 2013 sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness .

The third entry into this rebooted series, Star Trek Beyond , opened on July 22, 2016, to less-than-stellar financial results.

Every Character & Actor in Star Trek Beyond

Many fans argue that Star Trek Beyond is the strongest movie in the Kelvin Trilogy. It featured a quick-moving narrative, solid character beats, and even a Beastie Boys song or two. 

Here are all the characters that had a part to play in the threequel and their corresponding actor.

Chris Pine - Captain James T. Kirk

Chris Pine’s Jim Kirk opens the film feeling the weight of the mission. The USS Enterprise has been exploring deep space for two and a half years, and everything is starting to feel a bit rote for the Starfleet captain.

Little does he know that a trip beyond Starbase Yorktown will result in him and his crew getting way more than they bargained for.

Zachary Quinto - Commander Spock

Everybody’s favorite half-human, half-Vulcan science officer returns, marking Zachary Quinto’s third time in Spock’s pointy ears.

Gravely injured during the first act and stranded on an uncharted planet with the rest of the Enterprise Crew, Spock must rely on the medical expertise of Dr. McCoy to survive.

Karl Urban - Dr. Leonard McCoy

Karl Urban returns as the irascible Dr. McCoy, who is teamed with Spock for much of the film as they try to find a way to reunite with the crew in between sarcastic zingers.

During the final conflict of the film, Bones and Mr. Spock man the controls of one of Krall’s drone ships to help take out the rest of the villain’s massive fleet.

Zoe Saldana - Lt. Nyota Uhura

The Avatar and Guardians of the Galaxy superstar Zoe Saldana comes back for another round as Lt. Uhura, who begins the film on the outs with her boyfriend, Spock.

After the Enterprise is destroyed and the crew is taken prisoner, Uhura must fight for her life against Krall and his forces, patching things up with her Vulcan suitor in the process.

Simon Pegg - Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott

In Star Trek Beyond , Simon Pegg’s Scotty uses his engineering genius to escape the crumbling Enterprise in a photon torpedo tube.

Once on the surface of the planet Altamid, Scott meets a fellow strandee named Jaylah, and the two join forces to help get the wreck of the long-lost USS Franklin up and running again.

John Cho - Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu

John Cho’s Lt. Sulu, the Enteprise ’s helmsman, shares the bulk of his screentime with Saldana’s Uhura as the two try and free themselves from their captivity.

Sulu gets to put his piloting skills to the test when he’s called upon to fly the outdated Franklin off of its resting place on Altamid.

Anton Yelchin - Ensign Pavel Chekov

By the time of Beyond , the wide-eyed whiz kid Chekov has developed into a highly competent Starfleet officer, who pairs up with Captain Kirk throughout the movie’s second act.

The film is dedicated to actor Anton Yelchin, who tragically lost his life in a freak accident shortly before the theatrical release. The cast has spoken on many an occasion about how difficult it would be to make a fourth movie without him.

Idris Elba - Captain Balthazar Edison/Krall

An ex-MACO for the United Earth Military, Idris Elba’s Captain Edison fought in multiple conflicts with the Romulans as well as the Xindi.

But when the Federation was founded, his military skills and knowledge had no further use, and he felt abandoned by the very governing body he used to fight for. 

When his ship, the USS Franklin, crash-landed on Altamid, Edison took control of the planet’s technology, becoming the devious and disfigured villain known as Krall.

Sofia Boutella - Jaylah

Sofia Boutella’s Jaylah became marooned on Altamid as a young girl after her parents were killed by Krall.

In Beyond , Jaylah has taken up residence in the hull of the USS Franklin , a Federation vessel that went missing around the time of Captain Jonathan Archer’s missions in the mid-2100s.

Joe Taslim - Anderson Le/Manas

Joe Taslim plays Anderson Le, one of Edison’s crewmembers who was mutated into the evil Manas by Altamid’s energy transference tech.

Lydia Wilson - Jessica Wolff/Kalara

Much like her crewmate Le, Lydia Wilson’s Jessica Wolff survived on Altamid by becoming Kalara and serving as one of Krall’s underlings.

Sara Maria Forsberg - Kalara’s Translated Voice

Upon arriving in Yorktown to lure the Enterprise into Krall’s trap, Kalara is fitted with a universal translator collar which converts her alien speech into something more understandable. Sara Maria Forsberg provides the voice of the universal translator.

Deep Roy - Keenser

Deep Roy plays Scotty’s pal and fellow engineer Keenser in all three Kelvin timeline films. In Beyond , a caustic sneeze from Keenser helps the crew melt a lock to get out of a jam.

Melissa Roxburgh - Ensign Syl

An Enterprise crewperson, Melissa Roxburgh’s Syl hides a deadly weapon called the Arbonath in her cranial cavity thanks to some quick thinking on the part of Jim Kirk.

Shohreh Aghdashloo - Commodore Paris

The commanding officer of StarBase Yorktown, Shohreh Aghdashloo‘s Paris was actually added to the movie during reshoots. Some fans have also theorized that she’s an ancestor of Tom Paris from Star Trek: Voyager . 

Greg Grunberg - Commander Finnegan

Greg Grunburg, a longtime staple of J.J. Abrams-affiliated productions, plays Finnegan, an officer stationed in Yorktown’s command center. Fun fact: Finnegan is the alternate reality version of the character by the same name from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Shore Leave."

Danny Pudi - Fi’Ja

Community ’s Danny Pudi makes a cool (cool, cool, cool) cameo as Fi’Ja, a would-be assailant of Scotty’s who is put down by Jaylah.

Kim Kold - Zavanko

Savanko, another alien who tries to attack Mr. Scott on Altamid, is played by Danish bodybuilder Kim Kold.

Fraser Aitcheson - Hider

Fraser Aitcheson plays Hider, the third alien who comes after Scotty and is quickly dispatched by Jaylah.

Douglas Chapman - Sir Olden

Sir Olden, a Starfleet science officer portrayed by Douglas Chapman, is on the Enterprise when it’s brought down by Krall’s swarm ships.

Anita Brown - Tyvanna

One of the Enterprise ’s bridge officers, Anita Brown’s Tyvanna evacuated the ship once it was attacked.

Doug Jung - Ben

Doug Jung wrote Star Trek Beyond ’s screenplay alongside Simon Pegg. He also made a brief appearance in the movie as Ben, Lt. Sulu’s husband.

Dan Payne - Wadjet

A red-shirted Enterprise operations officer, Wadjet, was portrayed by Dan Payne.

Shea Whigham - Teenaxi Leader

Boardwalk Empire ’s Shea Whigam lent his voice to the Teenaxian who appeared in Star Trek Beyond ’s opening scene

Jeff Bezos - Alien Starfleet Official

Jeff Bezos (yeah, that Jeff Bezos) made an easy-to-miss cameo under heavy alien makeup as a Starfleet officer.

Carlo Ancelotti - Yorktown Doctor

Carlo Ancelotti, the Italian football manager, also made a blink-and-you-miss-it appearance as a doctor on Starbase Yorktown. He reportedly got the role because he’s friends with Zoe Saldana.

Will Star Trek Beyond Get a Sequel?

Ever since Beyond was released in cinemas in 2016, various attempts at making another sequel have been announced and subsequently shelved.

As the main cast members are typically quite busy, it would be something of a Herculean task to get all their schedules aligned so that they could work on a fourth Kelvin timeline film.

Anything’s possible, however, with Paramount's top brass claiming that they wish to move the Star Trek franchise back into features alongside its healthy TV presence.

Star Trek Beyond is available for purchase where ever movies are sold.

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Star Trek Beyond - Full Cast & Crew

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Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise encounter an alien warrior race when marooned on a distant planet after the destruction of their spaceship.

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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)

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Star Trek Beyond Cast Spotlight

By Jenna Busch

Your guide to who’s who in the Star Trek Beyond cast

Star Trek Beyond is the third film in the newest iteration of the beloved sci-fi franchise. The first two, Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness , were directed by J.J. Abrams. This time around, the film will be helmed by Fast & Furious director Justin Lin . The crew of the USS Enterprise are three years into a five-year mission and starting to feel the monotony of it all. Then they’re attacked by a swarm of alien ships, splitting the crew up and forcing them to fight for their lives. Fun fact: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Star Trek franchise and to celebrate, there are 50 new alien species in Star Trek Beyond . Let’s take a look at the Star Trek Beyond cast!

Star Trek Beyond Cast: Chris Pine as James Tiberius Kirk

Chris Pine will play James Tiberius Kirk for the third time in Star Trek Beyond . Outside of Starfleet, Pine has had roles in films like The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement , Smokin’ Aces , Horrible Bosses 2 and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit . He appeared as Eric in five episodes of the Netflix miniseries Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp . He showed the world his vocal chops when he played Cinderella’s Prince in the musical film Into the Woods . He also headed up the cast of the disaster film The Finest Hours . We’ll next see Pine as Diana Prince’s love interest in the upcoming solo Wonder Woman   film set during WWI.

Star Trek Beyond Cast: Zachary Quinto as Commander Spock

Zachary Quinto will again play the role of Spock, first performed by the late Leonard Nimoy, though fans first got to know him from his work as Sylar on the NBC TV series Heroes . He was nominated for an Emmy for his role in American Horror Story: Asylum and has appeared on The Slap and 24 ’s third season. Fun fact: Nimoy was given casting approval for the role of Spock, which Quinto has stated, was “liberating.” Quinto frequently performs on the stage with roles in plays like Endgame , Much Ado About Nothing and Angels in America .

Star Trek Beyond Cast: Zoe Saldana as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura

Zoe Saldana is reprising the role of Uhura, made famous by Nichelle Nichols . Fans of geek films have seen Saldana all over the place. She starred in James Cameron’s Avatar , the highest grossing film of all time, and played the role of Gamora in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy . She appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl , playing Anamaria, and the TV miniseries Rosemary’s Baby . She recently stared in the biopic Nina about the life of singer Nina Simone and will be returning in Guardians 2 and Avatar 2 . She also voiced her Star Trek role in the video game of the same name.

Star Trek Beyond Cast: Simon Pegg as Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott

Simon Pegg is returning as Scotty as well as penning the script for Star Trek Beyond . He first broke onto the scene in the British TV series Spaced with frequent collaborators Edgar Wright and Nick Frost . He also worked with them on the “Cornetto” trilogy of films,  Shaun of the Dead , Hot Fuzz and The World’s End . Pegg, who also frequently collaborates with director J.J. Abrams, played the alien Unkar Plutt in Star Wars: The Force Awakens . He’s also appeared as Benji Dunn in the Mission: Impossible series and does a number of voiceovers, including multiple voices in Cartoon Network ‘s  Robot Chicken and Phineas and Ferb as well as Dengar in Star Wars: The Clone Wars , and Scotty in the Star Trek video game.

Star Trek Beyond Cast: Karl Urban as Lieutenant Commander Leonard McCoy

Karl Urban is returning as Leonard “Bones” McCoy, who will spend a good portion of this film trying to survive with fellow crew member Spock. Urban is known for playing Éomer in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Vaako in The Chronicles of Roddick , Black Hat in Priest and Judge Dredd in Dredd . Hardcore fans will remember him for playing Julius Caesar and Cupid in Xena: Warrior Princess . He appeared in the short-lived TV series Almost Human and appeared in the documentary film Reclaiming the Blade , discussing his sword work in Lord of the Rings . Urban was recently last as Skurge in Marvel ‘s Thor: Ragnarok . He’ll be seen next in the Disney film Pete’s Dragon .

Star Trek Beyond Cast: John Cho as Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu

John Cho is reprising the role of Sulu in this film, and we know from the recent trailer that he has a young daughter that he’s been away from on this mission. Cho broke onto the scene with his work as Harold Lee in the Harold & Kumar films. He’s appeared in films like the Total Recall remake and Grandma . He also played an FBI agent in the TV series FlashForward , Off Center and has a recurring role on Sleepy Hollow . He played the leading role in the short-lived sitcom Selfie where he co-stared with Doctor Who ’s Karen Gillan , making him the first Asian-America to play a romantic lead on American TV. He’s also the lead singer for the band Viva La Union . He was recently the subject of a meme replacing romantic leads with his face to highlight the lack of Asian lead characters.

Star Trek Beyond Cast: Anton Yelchin as Lieutenant Pavel Chekov

Anton Yelchin is reprising the role of Chekov in the new film, having appeared in the first two in 2009 and 2013, respectively. Yelchin is known for his work as a young Kyle Reese in Terminator Salvation , Only Lovers Left Alive and Fright Night , but he started back in his childhood. He played the son of Hank Azaria ’s character in the TV series Huff as well as episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Criminal Minds . He also voiced Clumsy Smurf in the film adaptations of the cartoon.

Star Trek Beyond Cast: Idris Elba as Krall

Idris Elba  will play the villain Krall in the film, but is best known for his work on the HBO series The Wire and as Detective John Luthor in the BBC One series Luther . He played the title role in the film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and has appeared in American Gangster , Beasts of No Nation , Prometheus , Pacific Rim and played Heimdall in Thor , Thor: The Dark World and Avengers: Age of Ultron . He also voiced Chief Bogo in Disney ’s Zootopia , Shere Khan in The Jungle Book and Fluke in the upcoming Finding Dory . He’s been confirmed to play Roland Deschain in the upcoming Dark Tower movie as well.

Star Trek Beyond Cast: Sofia Boutella as Jaylah

Sofia Boutella is unrecognizable in the makeup she wears to play the alien Jaylah in Star Trek Beyond . She’s a well known hip-hop dancer and has been seen in StreetDance 2  and Kingsman: The Secret Service , as well as a Nike ad campaign, and toured with Madonna and Rihanna. She’s the lead in the Michael Jackson video for “Hollywood Tonight.” After this film, she’ll be seen in Universal Pictures ‘ reboot of The Mummy .

Star Trek Beyond Cast: Shohreh Aghdashloo as Federation High Commander

Shohreh Aghdashloo wil bring her distinctive voice to the Federation. Aghdashloo was a leading actress in Iran, moving to England during the Iranian revolution. Her breakout Western role was a part in House of Sand and Fog in 2003, which won her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She appeared in the HBO miniseries House of Saddam , for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie as well as a season of the series 24 . Her first American leading role was in the critically-acclaimed The Stoning of Soraya M . Aghdashloo voiced Admiral Shala’Raan vas Tonbay in the games Mass Effect 2 and 3 .

Who are you look forward to seeing most in the new film? Let us know in the comments. Star Trek Beyond will hit theaters on July 22, 2016.

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The Star Trek franchise is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a new, action-packed entry: " Star Trek Beyond ."

The franchise, originally created by Gene Rodenberry, made its debut in 1966 as a TV series about the adventures of James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise. Although the original series only ran for three seasons, many new iterations have appeared on television and in theaters in the 50 years since. "Star Trek Beyond " is the latest in the franchise, putting director Justin Lin at the head of the ship. J.J. Abrams remains part of the franchise, this time in an executive producer role, while co-star Simon Pegg takes on co-writing the script along with Doug Jung .

At the "Star Trek Beyond" press day, cast members Chris Pine , Karl Urban , John Cho , Zoe Saldana , and Simon Pegg shared their thoughts on the evolution of Star Trek, the loss of Leonard Nimoy and co-star Anton Yelchin , and what the new message of the franchise is. Here are 19 things the cast shared.

1. Simon Pegg wanted to pay homage to the 50th anniversary of Star Trek by creating "a hybrid of an episode of the original series with a spectacular cinematic event" for "Star Trek Beyond."

2. Pegg also wanted to make sure that everyone who had been there, character- or story-wise, got what they wanted, while also making it welcoming for those who had never seen any Star Trek films or TV series before.

3. "Beyond" takes place at a time the Enterprise has been out for 966 days -- a nod to the original "Star Trek" series' premiere (September 8, 1966). 4. "Star Trek Beyond" pairs Spock (Zachary Quinto) and McCoy (Karl Urban) together through most of the film. Urban said that he felt it was great to have "two characters that are so diametrically opposed to each other, be forced into a situation where they have to depend on each other to survive" and that it was the most fun he's had making a Star Trek film.

5. Quinto agreed with Urban and felt that they got to "know each other and appreciate each other more than we already did, which was already a significant amount." He also added that he felt fans of the series would enjoy seeing the dynamic between the two characters. 6. The reveal of Sulu being gay was not as important to John Cho as how it was handled. Cho said that he thought it "a beautiful idea and was just concerned with how it would be received. It was the handling of it that was most important to me. Its nonchalant posture towards it is the best thing about it. The fact that it is normalized, but if you re-watch it, in 10 years, you won't think anything of it. That's the best thing about it. There's no music queue, no close-up."

7. George Takei and Cho are actually on great terms and email all the time, despite what the media may have interpreted Takei's conflicting opinion on Sulu's sexuality . Cho says they've had, "big, long, lovely discussions about it[...] We were never shouting at each other, or anything like that. And it's a great discussion to have. I'm really happy with the way that it's been talked about and responded to, and I'm still a huge fan of G.T., for sure."

8. Zoe Saldana (Uhura) was puzzled that people were more concerned over revealing Sulu was gay, rather than the fact that it is revealed that Sulu is a father. "I also feel quite puzzled that we were having a bit of a fit over who he fathered a baby with," she says. 9. The film has a tribute to Leonard Nimoy, and the cast felt it was important to honor his legacy. Quinto felt that Nimoy was still very much a part of making "Beyond," and that he will be a part of anything they do moving forward.

10. Director Justin Lin wanted to be a part of "Beyond" so he could achieve his childhood dream of blowing up the Enterprise ... but then put it back together. Pegg, on the other hand, hated the idea, and it took some convincing to get him on board. He finally warmed to the idea because it allows the characters to figure out how to come back together as a family. 11. The decision behind using "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys in the film's climax was easy, "it's just a kick-ass song. If anything's going to blow up a swarm of spaceships, it's going to be the Beastie Boys." said Pegg.

12. Saldana appreciated that, in "Beyond," Pegg and Doug Jung (co-writer) made the characters more human. She added that "Being overly worked, being away from home and all the things that keep you grounded, can put a strain, not just on the intimate relationships that you may have, but also the professional ones. I thought I would never see the day where I would walk into the Enterprise, and we're not that excited to see each other. I thought, Okay, this is a great place to start because I can only imagine where we're going to end up. We literally end up in the opposite direction. We're dying to be close to each other. We're dying to save each other to get back together. I thought, Okay, that's brilliant. " 13. Saldana also talked about the parallels between her character, Uhura, and women of today. She stated, "Women are becoming very, very independent; not just in the workforce, but also in their personal lives. There's something about realizing that you should want to be a part of something, but you don't necessarily have to be a part of something, in order to be validated or respected or appreciated or considered strong enough ... There is a parallel universe situation that's going on with Uhura and women these days, where there's no longer this animosity or this resentment to prove who you are. You just want to be left alone to find out who you are because you're interesting and you're curious."

14. The costume designer, Sanja Milkovic Hays, added ranks to all the women's Starfleet costumes so that it felt like a throwback, yet modernized.

15. When asked which timeline they would choose to be in, Cho said that he preferred theirs because he feels that this version is able to give more to women and people of color, adding, "Roddenberry did set up a world that was incredibly progressive, but it was tempered by the social mores of the era. I feel like we can go further in 2016 than he was able to do at the time." 16. Jaylah's original name was "Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone" which was what they wanted the character to be -- an independent, resourceful female. But, after saying the name a few times, it got tiring and shortened to J-Law, which became Jaylah.

17. Each member of the cast remembered Anton Yelchin (Chekov) as an intelligent, sweet guy who was fearless creatively. For most of the cast, they recall him working on various pet projects, like working to translate a Russian novel into English. 18. Quinto believes that "Star Trek remains, in a landscape of popular culture entertainment, something that is a beacon of inclusivity and progressive thinking. I think it just takes on different forms now than it did 50 years ago."

19. Echoing Quinto's statement, Pegg added that he felt Star Trek's message today was "we're better together. It's about collectivism. And in this era of Brexit and talking about building walls in certain places, now more than ever, we should be thinking about the value of collectivism, about cooperation, and about unity. That can be and is our strength. The more fractured we become, the less secure we all feel."

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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 test.
• After stopping off at Starbase Yorktown, a remote outpost on the fringes of Federation space, the USS Enterprise, halfway into their five-year mission, is destroyed by an unstoppable wave of unknown aliens. With the crew stranded on an unknown planet and with no apparent means of rescue, they find themselves fighting against a ruthless enemy with a well-earned hatred of the Federation and everything it stands for. Only a rebellious alien warrior can help them reunite and leave the planet to stop this deadly menace from beginning a possible galactic war. — Paramount Pictures
• Getting through the first half of their five-year mission, Captain Kirk and the USS Enterprise crew now venture into uncharted territories. They arrive at Starbase Yorktown for shore leave, Kirk intends to be promoted to Vice Admiral to remain there and has recommended Spock for his present position as ship's captain. After a devastating attack by a massive army of unknown aliens, Kirk and his crew find themselves stranded on an unknown planet with no means of contacting the Federation or each other. The alien warlord Krall seeks an ancient weapon called the Abronath that Kirk has kept after an unsuccessful diplomatic mission. Reunited and aided by the alien warrior Jaylah, Kirk and crew must fight to survive and take on this deadly menace with a strong hatred for the Federation. Will they be able to destroy the new danger before it's too late? — Blazer346
• In the opening scene, Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) is meeting with the Teenaxi people to make a treaty between them and their enemies, the Fenopians. Kirk is holding an artifact that he claims is a gift of peace from the Fenopians, but the Teenaxi leader considers this a threat. He rolls down to confront Kirk, where we see that the leader and the rest of his people are small creatures. However, they gang up on Kirk and attack him. Kirk calls for Scotty (Simon Pegg) to beam him back up to the USS Enterprise. Kirk records a log, stating that they are now about three years into their five-year mission to explore the ends of the universe. Kirk has become rather bored by this point, and he wonders what else there is to see out there. Kirk is joined by Dr. Leonard McCoy (Karl Urban) with a bottle of scotch that he took out of Mr. Chekov's (Anton Yelchin) locker. Bones notes that Kirk's birthday is coming up, which Kirk isn't looking forward to since it reminds him of how his father died on the same day, and how Kirk will be a year older than his father when he died. Bones states that Kirk has spent all this time figuring out who his father was in his life, and now he is wondering what it means to be Kirk himself. The crew descends onto Starbase Yorktown to replenish their supplies. Spock (Zachary Quinto) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana) appear to be going through a rough patch in their relationship. She is ready to hand him back a necklace that he gave her, but he refuses to take it back. Mr. Sulu (John Cho) reunites with his life partner and their daughter. Spock is then called aside by two Vulcans ambassadors. He is informed that his older self from the prime timeline, Ambassador Spock, has died. Meanwhile, a distress signal is picked up by the Federation from an alien named Kalara (Lydia Wilson), who claims to have been part of a crew whose ship suffered a critical malfunction. She asks for help in rescuing her crew on the far side of the nebula. Kirk meets with Commodore Paris (Shohreh Aghdashloo) to apply for a position as Vice Admiral. He requests that Spock be made captain of the Enterprise in his place. The Enterprise sets off on the rescue mission. As they proceed through the nebula, they approach a Class M planet, and are suddenly attacked by a massive cluster of ships that move like a swarm of insects. The swarm quickly causes heavy damage to the Enterprise, the aliens riding the small ships breaching the hull in a matter of minutes. The crew tries fighting back, but their weapons are not strong enough, and when Sulu tries to warp them out of there, Scotty reports that the ship's nacelles have been sheered off by the enemy. The aliens then allow their leader, Krall (Idris Elba), to board the ship. His soldiers find the artifact that Kirk possessed earlier, a bioweapon called the Abronath. However, when Krall tries to get his hands on it, he finds that its container is empty. With the damage to the Enterprise critical, Kirk orders a general evacuation. Spock and Bones get in an escape pod that heads down to the planet. Krall battles with Kirk, winning the upper hand until Uhura separates the saucer from the engineering section of the ship, taking Krall with her. Kirk then goes with Chekov and Kalara as they make their escape. As the escape pod is ejected, Kirk watches the Enterprise crash to the ground. Meanwhile, Scotty's escape pod nearly flies into a vast canyon, but he jumps out in time. He is cornered in the forest by the planet's savage inhabitants. Before they can attack him, a scavenger named Jaylah (Sofia Boutella) shows up and beats the savages. Scotty introduces himself to her as an engineer. They agree to work together, with Scotty helping repair something of Jaylah's, and she will help him find the rest of the crew. Jaylah takes Scotty to her home, which happens to be a long-lost Federation starship, the USS Franklin. Spock and Bones have also crash-landed, with Spock impaled by a chunk of metal in his abdomen. Bones manages to pull out the metal and stop the bleeding. The two navigate the area, but they must slow down since Spock is still badly wounded. As they sit down, Spock informs Bones about Ambassador Spock's death. He feels that he must continue carrying out his older self's work on New Vulcan, and he wanted to inform Kirk, but Bones says he probably would not like that. After landing on the planet, Kirk confronts Kalara, thinking she knew what was coming. She defends herself, saying this was to help save her crew. With Chekov, they rush to find the Abronath on the saucer. Kalara then turns on Kirk, confirming she led them to a trap and that she was working with Krall the whole time. She finds that the Abronath is not where Kirk claimed to have left it. Moments later, the three are ambushed by drones. Kirk and Chekov manage to activate the saucer's thrusters, which lift the saucer high enough until it crashes down hard, killing Kalara. Krall captures Uhura, along with Sulu and the rest of the crew. He and his soldiers take them to his base of operations. It is shown that Krall is able to drain people of their lifeforce to rejuvenate himself, as well as change his appearance. He threatens to kill Sulu for the Abronath, but an Ensign named Syl gives up the weapon, having kept it hidden in the back of her head. He brings Uhura and Syl into a chamber where he demonstrates the use of the weapon. He locks Syl in the chamber and activates the Abronath, releasing a black cloud that envelopes Syl causing her to decompose. Krall intends to use this against the Federation. Kirk and Chekov run into a perimeter trap that Jaylah has arranged, encasing them in a crystallized shell. Scotty and Jaylah find them, and she breaks them free when Scotty says they are part of his crew. They team up to rescue the rest of the crew. Scotty repairs the Franklin's transporter pad to teleport people onto the ship. They start with Spock and Bones, who are about to be killed by more drones until they are both beamed onto the Franklin. On the computer, they receive a signal on Uhura's location since the necklace Spock gave her is also a tracking device. They see she is with the rest of the crew at Krall's hideout, but Chekov says they are unable to beam everyone up from there. Kirk figures they need to head in there and come up with their own rescue plan. Jaylah wants no part of this since she knows people who go near Krall's camp never come back alive. Her father fought Krall's right-hand man Manas and was killed during her escape. Scotty says she is not alone and can work with the others to save the crew. Kirk creates a diversion with a motorcycle he found on the Franklin while Spock and Bones sneak around to take a number of crew members at a time onto a pad and use a beacon to beam them onto the Franklin. Krall's men attack, leading to Jaylah fighting Manas one-on-one. Kirk protects the crew by spreading the crystallizing material to shield them from Krall's army. As the rest of the crew is saved, only Kirk and Jaylah remain. Jaylah pushes Manas off the pad to his death and jumps to reach Kirk as he activates his beacon, sending them back to the Franklin. Krall and his army fly toward Yorktown so he can activate the Abronath and kill everyone. The Enterprise crew follows. Spock and Bones beam onto a drone ship and figure out that they need to use a distraction to get by the other drones. Scotty uses Jaylah's music system to create discordant noise with The Beastie Boys' song "Sabotage". The drones are obliterated, leaving only Krall's ship plus two others. The Franklin manages to stop Krall's ship, causing her to crash into a fountain. The crew goes off to find Krall and make sure he is dead. They find two dead bodies drained of their lifeforce. As they continue making their way, they notice a video of the original crew of the Franklin from a century ago. Uhura spots a familiar face among everyone else. The man she sees is Balthazar Edison, the captain of the Franklin, but he is now Krall. Kirk asks to see Edison's old logs, skipping to the last one to see Edison having become jaded and angry with the Federation after his ship was stranded with no help, following his crew's own series of missions. Edison mentioned discovering a life-sustaining force that he intended to use to keep himself alive. A major in the United Earth Military Assault Command Operations (MACO), he became disillusioned with the Federation, rejecting its principles of unity and cooperation with former enemies. Now looking slightly more like his former self, Krall takes the Abronath to Yorktown's life support hub, which would allow the black cloud to spread through the entire starbase. Kirk finds Krall and starts fighting him to take the Abronath away from him. Kirk attempts to reason with Krall, but he is no longer the same captain he once was. Kirk's crew attempts to open the doors into space to pull out Krall. Krall activates the Abronath, which starts releasing the black cloud. However, Kirk avoids getting killed and pushes Krall into the path of the cloud. The doors open and sucks Krall into space with the Abronath, where he is consumed by the cloud and is thus disintegrated. Kirk gets sucked into space as well, but Spock and Bones fly near the doors and pull him to safety. In the aftermath, Commodore Paris closes the unsolved cases of Captain Edison and the USS Franklin crew. She offers Kirk the position of Vice Admiral, but he chooses to remain a captain since he chooses to fly. Meanwhile, Spock goes through Ambassador Spock's old materials as he chooses to remain in Starfleet. Among them is a picture of the Enterprise crew in the prime timeline right before they retired. Bones then brings Kirk to a surprise birthday party with the whole crew there to celebrate. Spock and Uhura reconcile their relationship. Kirk and Scotty pull some strings and get Jaylah into Starfleet Academy. The main crew then sees the USS Enterprise-A is being constructed. With that, the crew recites the original final frontier monologue as they resume their mission. The film closes with the words "In loving memory of Leonard Nimoy" (who had passed away in 2015) and "For Anton", a dedication to Anton Yelchin who passed away shortly before the film's premiere in 2016.

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How Anton Yelchin’s Death Changes Star Trek Beyond

By Scott Meslow

At a key moment in Star Trek Beyond , Kirk leads the crew of the USS Enterprise in a toast. "To absent friends," Kirk says, as everyone raises a glass. And then the camera shifts, ever so slightly, to refocus on the man standing behind him: Pavel Chekov, the crew member played by Anton Yelchin, who died at age 27 in a freak automobile accident last month.

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At least, I thought the camera pivoted to Chekov. In retrospect, I'm almost 100 percent sure it was in my imagination. But for me, watching Star Trek Beyond so soon after Yelchin's sudden death cast his performance—and the film itself—in a different light. It's a resonance that the film's creative team never intended, but it's still there. When the film began, every time Chekov appeared on screen, I felt a little jolt of grief. As it continued, this feeling gradually softened, but it never totally went away.

None of this is to criticize the creative team behind Star Trek Beyond , who have felt the loss of Yelchin as both a colleague and friend, and who have been unfailingly thoughtful and gracious in their tributes to Yelchin during the movie's promotional circuit. But the death of an actor changes the context in which you watch a movie, and for fans of Yelchin's work, Star Trek Beyond will be both a tribute and a fresh source of grief. And sitting in a movie theater, it's hard to reconcile those feelings with what Star Trek Beyond wants to be: a fun, escapist summer popcorn blockbuster.

Star Trek Beyond is hardly the first Hollywood blockbuster to hit theaters under the shadow of a cast member's unexpected death. The Harry Potter franchise recast the role of Dumbledore after the death of Richard Harris. Last year, the final Hunger Games sequel was reworked to minimize the role of Plutarch Heavensbee, the supporting character played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died in February 2014. Earlier this summer, Alice Through the Looking Glass featured the final performance of Alan Rickman, whose unmistakable baritone classed up an otherwise forgettable movie.

Of course, a movie faces a different challenge when a late actor's performance contains echoes of their death. One of the Joker's final lines to Batman in The Dark Knight —"I think you and I are destined to do this forever"—became unintentionally ghoulish after Heath Ledger died. And then, of course, there's Furious 7 —the James Wan-directed installment of a franchise largely defined by Stark Trek Beyond director Justin Lin, who directed installments three, four, five, and six. When Paul Walker died during the production of Furious 7 —in a car crash, no less—the film's producers faced a difficult decision: shut down production, or release a movie with some unsettling parallels to a real-life tragedy? In the end, they concluded that releasing the film was the right decision, and they managed to give Walker's protagonist a relatively graceful exit, using previously shot footage, along with CGI and body doubles, to complete the performance.

Star Trek Beyond is largely constructed as a tribute to another late Star Trek icon: Leonard Nimoy.

But the team behind Star Trek Beyond had a simpler choice to make. Yelchin's performance was finished, and nothing in the film directly recalls the circumstances of his death. In fact, Star Trek Beyond is largely constructed as a tribute to another late Star Trek icon: Leonard Nimoy, who died several months before Beyond entered production.

This timeline enabled screenwriters Simon Pegg and Doug Jung to weave Nimoy's real-life death into the fabric of the film. As Beyond begins, Spock (Zachary Quinto) learns that Ambassador Spock (Nimoy)—his older self from an alternate timeline, as seen in the previous two Star Trek movies—has died. This news sends the younger Spock into a soul-searching grief that informs his entire arc in the movie, as he contemplates leaving both the Federation and his girlfriend, Nyota Uhura (Zoe Saldana), to spend more time rebuilding his culture with the other surviving Vulcans. The story crescendoes with a brief, poignant nod to Ambassador Spock and the rest of the original cast, offering a final love letter to both the character and Leonard Nimoy.

Star Trek Beyond features one of Yelchin's final performances, which is both the simplest and most complete way to honor his work in the franchise—but his death also hangs over the movie, and the already-announced Star Trek 4 will need to address it. J.J. Abrams has said that the role of Chekov won't be recast, but that it's "too early" to decide how they'll resolve the character’s absence.

As far as I can tell, the only change that was definitively made to Star Trek Beyond in the wake of Yelchin's death happens several minutes after the movie itself has ended. In the middle of the credits, a warm title card appears that was presumably planned a long time ago: "In loving memory of Leonard Nimoy." When those words fade away, they're replaced by a second, simpler dedication: "For Anton."

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This Is What The Actress Who Plays Jaylah In Star Trek Looks Like In Real Life

" Star Trek Beyond " wasn't quite the success that everyone involved in it likely hoped it would be. While the film received mostly positive reviews (it holds an 86% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes ), it failed to be a box office hit. "Beyond" only managed to gross a little over $343 million at the worldwide box office — falling short of the box office totals of the two previous "Star Trek" films . As a result, Paramount Pictures has yet to make a sequel to "Star Trek Beyond," though, a number of new "Star Trek" TV shows have premiered in the five years since its release.

However, despite the film's disappointing financial returns, there are actually a number of things that "Star Trek Beyond" does right. That includes the introduction and creation of some memorable new characters, like Idris Elba's villainous Krall and Sofia Boutella's likable alien scavenger, Jaylah . An escaped survivor of the camp run by Krall, "Beyond" shows Jaylah become a quick and helpful new ally for the Enterprise crew.

Boutella made an instant impression with her performance as the character, despite being covered in heavy makeup and facial prosthetics throughout the entirety of the film. Indeed, the actress is totally unrecognizable in the role, so much so that viewers may be surprised to learn not only what Boutella looks like in real life, but also that "Star Trek Beyond" is far from the only notable project that Boutella has starred in.

Jaylah is played by dancer-turned-actress Sofia Boutella

Sofia Boutella has been steadily carving out an impressive film and television career for herself over the past several years. Boutella got her start as a professional dancer, and many of her earliest credits are for music videos from notable musical artists like Madonna and Michael Jackson. Her first major film role came in 2012 when she appeared as Eva in " StreetDance 2 ," but she achieved breakthrough success with her performance as the deadly Gazelle in 2014's "Kingsman: The Secret Service." Two years later, she appeared as Jaylah in "Star Trek Beyond" and followed up that sci-fi blockbuster with her memorable turn as Delphine — the seductive-but-well-intentioned love interest of Charlize Theron's Lorraine — in 2017's "Atomic Blonde."

That same year, Boutella starred alongside Tom Cruise in a live-action reboot of " The Mummy ," where she played the film's titular character. Meanwhile, in 2018 she appeared as Clarisse McClellan in the Michael B. Jordan-led HBO film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," and earned major acclaim for her performance as Selva in the trippy, dance-driven indie film, " Climax ."

On the smaller screen, Boutella has also appeared as Yasmine in two episodes of the Amazon anthology series, "Modern Love," and is currently set to star alongside Alfie Allen and Jack O'Connell in the upcoming historical miniseries, " SAS: Rogue Heroes ." In other words, not only has Boutella already amassed some truly impressive credits for herself, but she's also shown no signs of slowing down any time soon, either.

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Commander Rayner (Callum Keith Rennie) isn’t thrilled by this prospect, pointing out before she leaves that it’s too dangerous a mission for a captain to undertake. But Burnham disagrees that this is enough of a reason to stop her; it’s a nice reminder that this is a show and a character that originated in the time of James T. Kirk, a time when captains didn’t stay behind in the face of danger.

But it’s not only that, there’s something else going on. Burnham gives Rayner permission to be blunt, quoting a classic work on Rayner’s native Kellerun , The Ballad of Krull , asking him to “serve it without a crumb of ossekat .” (As far as made-up Star Trek idioms go, that’s a pretty good one.)

It’s also the beginning of a sudden and relentless onslaught of references to Rayner’s culture, but more on that later. What’s Rayner’s problem? He’s uncomfortable with the prospect of being left in command of a ship and crew that aren’t “his.” Welcome to being second in command, buddy.

Book and Burnham take off, heading into the wormhole and finding it to be an inhospitable place. They quickly drop out of communication range with Discovery , there’s ship debris everywhere, including the wreckage of Moll and L’ak’s ship…. and what’s that, the  ISS Enterprise ?!

(A side note before we get too excited about that: what is the deal with all the empty space in the new shuttlecraft set, introduced in last season’s “All Is Possible”? The two pilot seats looked like they were crammed into the corner of a huge unfurnished room.)

Okay, Enterprise time. Burnham and Book rightly surmise that this is where Moll and L’ak must have escaped to and beam to the ship, which of course turns out to be a redress of the Strange New Worlds  standing sets. A quick scan identifies that no one else is aboard — though the clue, which Moll and L’ak have found, does also have a lifesign, hmm — and that Moll and L’ak are holed up in sickbay. Burnham takes a few moments to ponder her visit to the Mirror Universe back in Season 1 and wonder what the alternate version of her half-brother Spock might have been like (bearded, for one).

And aside from some brief storytelling about Mirror Saru’s role as a rebel leader, that’s about it for the Terran Empire of it all. Star Trek: Discovery has spent plenty of time in and around the Mirror Universe already, and I personally don’t think they need to revisit it again. But introducing the  ISS Enterprise — the ship that started it all with The Original Series ’ “Mirror, Mirror” — and then not doing anything momentous with it? Strange decision, and one that makes it ultimately feel more like this was a way for the show to get to reuse a set on the cheap than it does a materially significant addition to the episode.

In fact, in some ways it’s actually a detriment to the episode. If the action had been set on any other ship it would have been fine, but being on the ISS Enterprise I kept expecting something — like seeing Paul Wesley as Mirror Kirk slinking around, or finding Anson Mount camping it up as Mirror Pike in a personal log. If they’d set the action on a generic derelict ship, what we got wouldn’t have seemed like a let down. As it is though, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop… and it simply never did.

Maybe in a subsequent episode, it’ll turn out that there’s an advantage in having an entire functional starship composed of atoms from another universe at Starfleet’s disposal — or to have a convenient collection of Constitution -class sets available for that Starfleet Academy show to borrow once in a while — but until that happens (if it even does) the use of the ISS Enterprise just seems like a name drop and a “We have to set the action somewhere , why not here?” instead of a significant use of the setting and the huge amount of lore and history that comes with it.

It’s like setting something aboard the Titanic without ever mentioning any icebergs.

As Burnham and Book make their way down to sickbay they do find evidence that the ship was being used in a way that seemed unusually gentle for a Terran Empire vessel: signs that children and families were aboard at one time, and that they were the kind of people sentimental enough to have keepsakes and favorite stuffed animals. But again, nothing about this seems like it needs the Mirror Universe connection. Ships of people trying to escape adversity are already a Star Trek staple.

Burnham and Book find Moll (Eve Harlow) and L’ak (Elias Toufexis) in sickbay, and after a valiant but ultimately unsuccessful attempt at getting them to surrender, everyone starts shooting. Moll and L’ak have a Breen blood bounty — an erigah — on their heads and surrender is simply not an option. During the firefight a lockdown is triggered, forcefields coming down that split the group into pairs: Burnham and L’ak stuck in sickbay, while Book and Moll able to go back to the bridge to try and reset sickbay.

Pairing off also gives Book the opportunity to continue his efforts to connect with Moll, and I have to say, I don’t think I’m a fan. Setting aside the portion of this that’s purely a strategic attempt to forge a connection with someone who is very to keen to kill him, my first reaction to the way Book talks to Moll about her father (and his mentor) was distaste.

I don’t think Book meant it this way, but the way he’s written in these scenes feels unpleasantly close to the “Well, he was a great guy to me , I never saw him do anything bad” response that’s sometimes made to accusations of misconduct. A person can be wonderful to some people in their life and terrible to others; both experiences are true for the people who received them, but they’re not mutually exclusive.

Book is preternaturally empathetic, and yet he doesn’t seem to see how continually assuring Moll that her father loved her is an act that’s both unwanted and actively painful for Moll to hear. I understand that Book is just trying to bring a sliver of comfort to Moll – but in the process he’s dismissing her own experiences of her father and his place in her life. Unless Moll asks him for this, it’s really none of Book’s business.

I suspect they’re setting up Moll’s character for a nice, cathartic arc where she comes to terms with her life, forgives her father, releases her past, whatever. And when that happens in real life that’s great — but it doesn’t always, and that’s okay too. If Moll never sees in her father the man Book saw in his mentor, it’s not a character failing. Discovery is really hammering home the theme of confronting one’s past in order to take control of one’s present and future, and I think it would be valuable if they included an example of a character learning to do the latter… without having to be okay with the former.

And to return to a question I posed in my review of “Under the Twin Moons,” I know Book is isolated and excruciatingly lonely after the destruction of Kweijan and his split with Michael, but the weight he’s placed on his relationship with Moll as “the closest thing he has to family” seems like he’s setting himself up for disappointment. Maybe I’m just a cynic, but this does not feel like a hopeful storyline to me. Not everyone wants to be family, and right now it doesn’t seem like Moll’s been given much of a choice in the matter — despite her frequent and very powerful explanations of why she’s not interested.

Clearly frustrated with Book’s topic of conversation and desperate to return to L’ak, Moll makes a reckless decision to brute-force a solution and overload some circuits. It works, and the forcefields in sickbay come down, but it also sends the Enterprise onto an unstoppable collision course with the too-small-to-pass-through and also going-to-be-closing-forever-soon wormhole. They’ve got eight minutes to figure this out.

Meanwhile aboard Discovery , we see Rayner’s struggles to interact with the crew. This thread could have gone so many different ways, Rayner seeming “too good” for a temporary command, him seeing this as his chance to do things “better” than Burnham or show how it’s “really done,” but instead the show takes the much more subtle and satisfying route: Rayner is deeply respectful of the captaincy, as a rank and a role, and really doesn’t want to step on Burnham’s authority.

He’s more than willing to disagree with her on command decisions , but he doesn’t question her command . And more personally, he doesn’t want his gruffness and lack of experience with this crew to cause problems. He’s trying, in his own Rayner way, and more importantly he’s succeeding — and, as we see as he shepherds the crew through figuring out how to communicate with and then rescue Book and Burnham, the crew does their part and meets him halfway.

Rayner is learning that he needs to tone down his temperament just enough that he doesn’t come across as an actual asshole to this crew, and the crew is learning that his gruffness isn’t a sign of disrespect but simply a desire to cut to the chase and get to direct, actionable information with a minimum of fluff. There are shades of Nimoy’s Spock or Voyager -era Seven of Nine here, but couched within a distinctly different temperament, and it’s fascinating to watch. I’d love to have seen him interacting with the crew of the Antares , where he presumably felt more comfortable.

The interpersonal stuff with Rayner and the crew is great; where Rayner’s thread feels distractingly like a box being checked is the explosion of “Rayner is a Kellerun!” being shouted from the bulkheads. I could practically hear the writers yelping out a panicked “Oh crap, we forgot to say what kind of alien Rayner is!”

Again, Discovery is back to its old self with the clunky, heavy-handed, and oddly paced character work. Rayner goes from having zero cultural touchstones to having about five in the span of the 15-20 minutes of screentime that his story gets this week. They’re good touchstones, don’t get me wrong — I’m skeptical of Kellerun citrus mash, I have to be honest, but I’d give it a try; not so sure about boiling a cake though — they’re just very present .

As with Rayner’s alienness, the frequent flashbacks throughout the episode to Moll and L’ak’s meeting and courtship feel like a “We forgot to explain this and now we’re trying to reference it!” correction. The content of the flashbacks is fine, there’s a lot of interesting Breen worldbuilding for a species that’s been mysterious from the start — and watching Moll and L’ak’s relationship grow from one of mutual convenience to one of true love is genuinely moving. But the way it’s woven into an episode that, again, feels like it’s composed of bits and pieces of storyline, makes it hard to shake the sense that I was watching a To Do list get checked off.

By the time the season is over it might be clear that there was simply no extra room to give a full episode over to Moll and L’ak’s meeting, or maybe an episode without any of the main cast wasn’t something they were willing or contractually able to do, but I would have loved if these flashbacks were pulled out and expanded into a full-length episode of their own. Some of the worldbuilding felt hasty to the point of hindering the emotional beats — at times I wondered if I’d forgotten a whole bunch of Breen lore and at others I was just trying to keep up with what was going on.

For example, my confusion about L’ak’s comment about having two faces, which Moll seemed to completely understand — “Duh, everyone knows the Breen have two faces” — was a distraction in the middle of an otherwise nice and significant moment. This is later clarified as the translucent face and the solid face, but again I was distracted from fully appreciating an interesting bit of Breen culture because I was busy applying what I’d just learned back to the previous scene.

The quickly (and maybe not totally clearly articulated notion) that Breen deliberately restrict themselves to their translucent form for reasons that are entirely to do with avoiding any perception of weakness is a potent if hasty bit of social commentary, and as I said I nearly didn’t catch it.

Whether holding the translucent form requires the armor for protection or the armor necessitates the translucent form — it seems like it would be more comfortable wearing that helmet all the time if you were the texture and consistency of lime jello — this is surely a metaphor for the increasingly rigid, isolating, and emotionally and sometimes physically unhealthy things men in certain circles feel they must do to be appropriately masculine. Seeing L’ak free himself from that rigidity is powerful.

With the forcefields in sickbay down, Burnham and L’ak immediately spring into action:  Burnham trying to get the artifact from L’ak and L’ak simply trying to get away. They fight, and Burnham impressively proves she can hold her own against a Breen. When L’ak accidentally falls on his own blade, Burnham grabs the clue and speeds to the bridge where she manages to get a message to Rayner through some tractor beam trickery. The message? Another reference to that classic of Kellerun literature that gives Rayner the info he needs. Hey, did you know Rayner was a Kellerun?

The ISS Enterprise makes it through the wormhole, Moll and L’ak zip away in an escape pod, and it’s time to wrap things up. We head to Red’s for a quick but significant moment between Tilly (Mary Wiseman) and Culber (Wilson Cruz), as Tilly offers advice and an ear to a Culber who’s going through a quiet existential – maybe also spiritual? – crisis.

OBSERVATION LOUNGE

• In addition to the dedication plaques on the bridge, the ISS Enterprise has an additional plaque in its transporter room — one which, despite recounting the heroism of rebel action hero Mirror Saru, still states “Long Live the Empire.”
• The transporter room plaque is marked with “Stardate 32336.6,” which is about 9 years before the events of “Encounter at Farpoint.”
• The plaque describes the fate of Mirror Spock, who was killed after instituting the reforms which later led to the fall of the Terran Empire (as described in DS9’s “Crossover”).

The full text of the ISS Enterprise transporter room plaque:

The new High Chancellor presented hope and justice as if they were natural to our world. His words, “The light of hope shines through even the darkest of nights” became our rallying cry. He spoke of reform, and changed many of us. But some saw this as weakness. They killed him, and we sought help from an unlikely ally: A Kelpien slave turned rebel leader.   He spoke of visitors from another world… a near perfect mirror cast our darkness into light. With his aid we secured the Enterprise and stayed behind to continue his work. We bear scars from our escape, but our hope remains. May it carry us into a pristine, peaceful, and just future.

• Not counting L’ak’s previous appearances this season, this episode marks the first time we have seen the Breen in live action since their involvement in the Dominion War in Deep Space Nine.  (The species has appeared in  Star Trek: Lower Decks three times.)
• The 32nd century Breen wear updated encounter suits clearly based on the designs introduced in  Deep Space Nine ; their digital speech is extremely faithful to the incomprehensible noises Breen soldiers have spoken in past appearances.
• Given the fact that Moll appears to be just fine in the environment of the Breen ship, I guess Weyoun was right when he said the Breen homeworld was “quite comfortable” in “The Changing Face of Evil.”
• When L’ak is stabbed he gently oozes some green goo — but as we learned in “In Purgatory’s Shadow,” Breen do not have traditional humanoid blood.

• During his time in command of Discovery , Rayner never sits in the captain’s chair.
• This episode closes with a dedication plaque that reads “In loving memory of our friend, Allan ‘Red’ Marceta”. Marceta was, I presume, the namesake for Discovery’s bar.
• Someone aboard Discovery keeps a Cardassian vole as a pet. Going by Tilly’s reaction, and what we know from  Deep Space Nine , this is not a good thing.
• Linus (David Benjamin Tomlinson) plays a mean piano.
• Owosekun and Detmer get the off-screen cherry assignment of flying the ISS Enterprise back to Federation Headquarters, alone. I’m thinking that’s going to inspire some fanfic…

We don’t learn what this week’s clue is, though we know there’s a blue vial tucked away inside it, but we do learn that the crew of the ISS Enterprise did indeed make it to our universe. The scientist responsible for hiding this particular clue there was one of them, a Dr. Cho, who eventually made it all the way to branch admiral.

They strove for something positive and succeeded against all odds. Hopefully Discovery will be able to do the same as they continue their pursuit of Moll, L’ak, and the Progenitors.

Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 returns with “Whistlespeak” on Thursday, May 2.

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Beyond Paradise confirmed for season 3 and special episode

Humphrey and Martha's story isn't over.

The BBC announced the exciting news about the Death in Paradise spin-off following its hugely emotional season finale on Friday (April 26).

"The response to series two has been fantastic. So much love goes into the making of the show, and we’re delighted that the audience have enjoyed it so much," said executive producer Tim Key.

"We can’t wait to get back to Shipton Abbott for another Christmas special and series to continue the story and learn more about our characters and the town they live in – I can promise that we’ll be making the viewers laugh, cry, laugh a bit more and then baffling them with a series of ingenious puzzles. There will also be a duck.”

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The second season of Beyond Paradise has continued to be a ratings winner for BBC One, with its opening episode attracting an impressive 7.5 million viewers thus far.

Friday's finale provided some resolution about the future of Shipton Abbott's station house following CS Charlie Wood's internal investigation, as well as an emotional decision for Martha and Humphrey about their future together.

The finale episode included Hollyoaks legend Jeff Rawle in a guest role as curator of the Shipton Abbott Museum, while Doctor Who 's Peter Davison recurred throughout the second season .

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" Beyond Paradise has become such a huge hit with millions of viewers across the UK. It’s a show that is absolutely on a roll, and we’re beyond pleased to bring more fiendishly clever mysteries from the Shipton Abbott team to the BBC," BBC Director of Drama, Lindsay Salt, said.

This renewal news for Beyond Paradise comes ahead of sweeping changes to the companion show Death in Paradise after Ralf Little recently departed as lead detective Neville Parker.

Death in Paradise and its spin-off, Beyond Paradise , both air on BBC One and stream on BBC iPlayer.

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Over more than a decade, he has interviewed a wide-ranging group of public figures, from comedian Steve Coogan to icons from the Star Trek universe, cast members from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and reality stars from numerous Real Housewives cities and the Below Deck franchise. As a US contributor to Digital Spy, Justin has also been on the ground to cover major pop culture events like the Star Wars Celebration and the D23 Expo.

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David ajala on star trek: discovery season 5, michael & moll relationships, and grudge's farewell to set.

Screen Rant interviews David Ajala about Cleveland Booker's relationships with Michael Burnham and Moll in Star Trek: Discovery season 5.

Warning: SPOILERS For Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 5 - "Mirrors"

• Cleveland Booker's expertise is crucial in catching new Star Trek: Discovery villains Moll and L'ak in Season 5.
• Book reunites with Burnham in their hunt for the Progenitors' treasure.
• David Ajala talks about Book's growth, Grudge, and that he is open to return in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy .

David Ajala returns as Cleveland Booker in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, as the former courier's expertise is vital to catching Moll (Eve Harlow) and L'ak (Elias Toufexis), Discovery season 5's new villains. Booker's pet cat, Grudge, is also back.

In Star Trek: Discovery season 5, Cleveland Booker joins Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the USS Discovery's hunt for the ancient treasure of the Progenitors , which has the power to create life. Book's reunion with Burnham is awkward as they have been estranged since their romance ended. Meanwhile, Book realizes Moll is the daughter of his mentor, Cleveland Booker IV, and he is desperate to connect with Moll, who is the closest thing Cleveland now has to family.

Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 Returning Cast & New Character Guide

Screen Rant interviewed David Ajala about Cleveland Booker's need to connect with Michael Burnham and Moll in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, filming on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Enterprise sets, and the potential of returning as Book in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy .

Grudge Took The End Of Star Trek: Discovery Hard

Screen Rant: When you and the cast found out that Discovery season 5 is the final season , who told Grudge and how did Grudge react?

David Ajala: I had to tell Grudge. And you wanna know a secret? Grudge took it pretty well, actually. I mean, she's far from being overly sentimental. But I think the main thing that she was just disappointed by is that she will no longer have a whole trailer to herself. She was a bit bummed out by that. I told her, 'Hey, you've got me.' She's like, 'Yeah.'

Did she get on the phone and call her agent?

David Ajala: So you know she's got an agent, then. So you know that she has a whole entourage. It's an agent, manager, stylist, groomer. Someone who feeds her cat treats. Myself. I'm part of the entourage. There's a few. It's a bit embarrassing, but we love her.

When Discovery ended, did you keep anything from the set? Tell me you kept one of Booker's coats.

David Ajala: Absolutely, I kept something, John, but I don't wanna get in trouble. So I can't say what. I may have taken one thing. (laughs) You have to.

Although Discovery isn't over yet, looking back, what's your lasting impression of Cleveland Booker and Michael's relationship, and playing it for three years with Sonequa?

David Ajala: When Sonequa reached out to me, [and] I knew that I was joining the show or I had been cast, she said, ‘Welcome to this wonderful world where everyone supports each other, where we're so excited to be on set, where we literally believe that we have lightning in a bottle.’ I believe that their relationship is lightning in a bottle, but it's lightning that feels, dare I say it, safe. It's exciting, and it feels safe. I think these two will always be in each other's lives. I think they bring out the best in each other. And behind every great woman is herself.

What It Was Like Filming On Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Enterprise Sets

This week's episode of Discovery is one of my favorites of season 5. You, Sonequa, Eve Harlow, and Elias Toufexis spent most of the episode on the Enterprise set. I need to know what that was like for you.

David Ajala: Oh, it was amazing. Like, truly, because it's one thing, seeing it on the screen. And having seen it many times over the years, and then now to physically be in that space... It was tricky. It was. And I think seeing it for the first time, my reaction was captured on camera because I wanted it to be that. And just to see how Sonequa looked around and took in the space, and held the space in such reverence and awe just really helped to enjoy the magic of that moment.

You guys shot that episode during Strange New Worlds' hiatus, right? They had already finished season 2.

David Ajala: That's right.

When you were on Strange New Worlds ' sets, did you notice a difference between their set and Discovery' s set? Is there something they have that you guys don't, and you were like, 'Hey, how come they have this and we don't?' Or was it vice versa?

David Ajala: It was more vice versa? Oh, man, y'all don't have this, but we do? All right, then. It is what it is. There were few little tiny details that we were very grateful for at the time. But you can tell the distinct difference between the two sets. They're not too dissimilar, but I definitely prefer our set. And that's not being biased. I think it's just more fun, because there's a lot of little hidden things that we have that helped us to get through our days when we're filming. I'll say that much without getting in trouble.

Booker Tries to Connect With Burnham & Moll In Discovery Season 5

I love that Book is very zen this season. In season 4, he was in dire straits. His planet blew up. He lost his family. He lost Michael. He went to prison. But Book is very centered now. Can you talk about this new approach to playing Book and where he's at in season 5?

David Ajala: Thank you, by the way, John. I appreciate that. I think with this version of Cleveland Booker, he is someone who, loosely, I'll say this, he has had a fall from grace very, very publicly, but with the best of intentions. He's also someone who has been given a second chance. And I feel that he understands the grace he's been afforded to be given a second chance. And I think he grabs that second chance like a life raft. It helps to be intentional again. So I think he's operating from a place of a much deeper level of intentionality. And I think, also, he loves Michael, and he wants to be seen in the best light with regard to Michael because he care. Beyond the ego, I think he cares deeply for her.

I honestly think Michael and Book is one of the greatest love stories ever told in Star Trek. And you know, it's not over yet. But the depth of it, the honesty, just the beauty of the two of them, the way they support each other, even when they're at odds, I think it's just beautiful to watch.

David Ajala: That's wonderful. Thank you, John.

Talk to me a little bit about Booker's desire to connect with Moll . I understand Book's feeling that she's the closest thing to family he has left.

David Ajala: Exactly. And it's such a profoundly huge idea to digest, but his whole planet, Kwejian, was obliterated. There is nothing left of it whatsoever. In fact, the only physical thing he has is the chain, the necklace around his neck. That's the only thing he has of Kwejian. And then, now, to be in such close proximity with an individual who is the closest thing to family that he has, this feels also like another second chance. But this second chance, I guess, is a lot more complicated. But I think because of the need Cleveland Booker has to connect. I think he will do the utmost to try and reach Moll.

I also really like how Moll and L'ak remind Book of himself and Michael during the courier days. I just love that.

David Ajala: Yeah, I'm really happy you picked up on that, John. That is such a lovely little detail, which I think charges the energy better and increases the stakes because now he's looking at a parallel version of him and Michael Burnham. He gets them. He understands the thrill they seek, the thrill of the chase. Better the devil you know, right? I love that. And more will be revealed as the episodes continue.

Book's Future In Star Trek After Discovery

This is the final season. If Discovery had continued, was there ever a chance of Booker actually joining Starfleet? Is that something you or he would have wanted?

David Ajala: Potentially. I think it's an invitation that he would have been gracious enough to accept and not to claim. But I think what's important to Cleveland Booker is to be the master of his fate, and to keep and maintain that autonomy. So, if there's a hybrid version of being able to maintain that autonomy, and also be of service to Starfleet, whatever that role looks like, Cleveland Booker would gladly take that role.

Before I let you go, I'm gonna float an idea about you, and tell me what you think: Professor Cleveland Booker - Starfleet Academy.

David Ajala: Done deal. But you missed one key ingredient and feature: Professor Cleveland Booker and Grudge - Starfleet Academy. I ain't trying to get no enemies out here, John. I need to make sure I put some respect on the Queen's name.

Yes. I've got it: Chancellor Grudge - Starfleet Academy.

David Ajala: There you go. There you go. I love that. Done deal. Love that so much. And so will Grudge.

About Star Trek: Discovery Season 5

The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery finds Captain Burnham and the crew of the USS Discovery uncovering a mystery that will send them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries. But there are others on the hunt as well … dangerous foes who are desperate to claim the prize for themselves and will stop at nothing to get it.

Check out our other Star Trek: Discovery season 5 interviews here:

• Sonequa Martin-Green
• David Ajala and Doug Jones
• Wilson Cruz, Mary Wiseman & Blu del Barrio
• Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise
• Callum Keith Rennie
• Eve Harlow and Elias Toufexis

New episodes of Star Trek: Discovery season 5 stream Thursdays on Paramount+

'Picard's Michelle Hurd Reveals Who She Wants To See Raffi Team Up With in a 'Star Trek: Legacy' Spin-Off

Fans haven't given up hope for 'Star Trek: Legacy' and Hurd shared some exciting potential team-ups at Calgary Expo this weekend.

The Big Picture

• Fans are still hopeful for a Star Trek: Legacy spin-off series after the successful final season of Picard on Paramount+.
• Actress Michelle Hurd expresses excitement for the potential spin-off and a desire to work with more Next Generation alums.
• Hurd mentions wanting Raffi to meet Guinan; recently Whoopi Goldberg hinted at a possible return to the franchise.

While there's been no official news of a spin-off in the year since Star Trek: Picard Season 3 became one of Paramount+'s most-watched Star Trek seasons, fans are still holding out hope for Star Trek: Legacy . Despite still waiting for a green light from the studio herself, actress Michelle Hurd spoke hopefully about the potential spin-off series during a panel hosted by Collider's Maggie Lovitt at Calgary Expo this weekend. When Lovitt asked what it means to Hurd to know so many people want to see her come back to play Raffi again, she said, "It's an unbelievable honor and one that I absolutely cherish and understand the responsibility of."

As the panel went on, Hurd accepted several Star Trek questions from the attendees in the crowd. When one hopeful fan opened with plans to " assume Star Trek: Legacy is a go " Hurd wholeheartedly agreed saying, "Shall we? I like that, I like where you're going." The fan would go on to ask which other "legacy" characters from the long-running franchise she'd like to see Raffi team up with on the spin-off.

Hurd noted that "Raffi didn't get to interact with everybody that came back." As much as she loved working with Michael Dorn as Worf for most of the season, Hurd had a few other Next Generation alums from Picard Season 3 that she'd love to share the screen with. She went on to say:

"I mean, Levar Burton , Kunta Kinte, I mean can I just— I had one line, I think, with Marina [Sirtis] on the second season. I didn't really get to work other than shooting with Gates [McFadden] . So, of that, I would love to actually experience those guys. And then, you know, what I love is that Terry Matalas is such an OG that he, I mean, he had to like, you know, force some of our cameos on the show because…how do I say [this]? But some people, maybe the studio didn't really get it. They were like, ‘Oh, why would we bring this character on? Nobody knows him.’ And it was like, ‘No, everybody— YOU don't know, but everybody knows them.’ So I honestly, I think that he would, he would do an amazing job pulling in people. "

Michelle Hurd Wants to See Raffi Meet Guinan If 'Star Trek: Legacy' Happens

Hurd had one more major player from Next Generation and Picard that she would love to see Raffi team up with, saying "selfishly, Guinan would be nice to play with, I’m just saying." And it's possible she could get her wish. A few weeks ago Whoopi Goldberg — who played Guinan across six of Next Generation 's seven seasons — played coy when her The View co-host Joy Behar appeared to spill the beans about Goldberg potentially returning to the franchise again.

While we wait to see if Paramount+ will boldly go with Star Trek: Legacy , you can watch both Picard and Next Generation in their entirety on the streamer.

Star Trek: Picard

Follow-up series to Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) that centers on Jean-Luc Picard in the next chapter of his life.

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Who Will Star in ‘The Traitors’ Season 3?

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The Traitors is coming back for Season 3, which means fans should prepare for another round of reality television favorites (and villains) fighting to stay “alive” in a spooky Scottish castle amid a massive game of whodunnit.

Seasons 1 and 2 featured TV alums from all over the reality spectrum, from Bravolebrities to The Challenge champions to Survivor alums to Bachelor Nation members and beyond. It’s one of the hottest shows on streaming right now, too, so when it comes to the next season, there’s pretty much no one who’s too cool to be recruited for the cast. In fact, according to The New York Times , reality stars are fighting to get considered for the show.

So, with the entirety of reality TV’s many personalities on the offering table, who’s going to join the fold for Season 3? Here’s what we know so far, along with some sublime fan wishlists.

What does it take to star in The Traitors Season 3?

Peacock has not yet revealed a cast list for The Traitors Season 3, but there are reports of certain reality alums vying for a chance to don one of those lush capes for the show.

Speaking to the New York Times, executive producer Mike Cotton said of the casting process, “You want people from all walks of life that are going to bring their own unique skills to it. You want people who are big competitors, you want people who are cutthroat, you want people who are master manipulators, people who are deep thinkers, people who will sit back and watch and listen. And I think the idea is that they’ll all bring their unique skills, and I think that’s why we have such a mix of people.”

Fellow executive producer Toni Ireland told The Wrap , “Comedy is key in this … [we want] people that give you the incredible sound bites in their master interviews. You want people like C.T. that are brilliant at the challenges, but you’ve got to have people with heart and warmth. You’ve got to have players the viewers are rooting for whether you’re a faithful fan or a traitor fan.”

Who could join The Traitors Season 3 cast?

The paper of record also reports that after The Challenge alums Chris “C.T.” Tamburello and Trishelle Cannatella went on to win Season 2, their fellow former challenger, Jemmye Carroll started hitting up Cannatella, who lives in the same city as her in New Orleans, to put in a good word with the show’s staff.

Previously, fellow Challenge alum and Teen Mom star Cory Wharton blasted MTV for not allowing him to join the first cast of the show, claiming on Twitter that he was supposed to join Season 1 before being called by the network, even though CT and Trishelle would later join with no repercussions (at least not for CT, who’s expected to be part of Season 40 ). Perhaps now he’ll refuse to heed such warnings if the opportunity comes up again.

Crazy to me that MTV literally called me the Day before I was gonna leave for Scotland and film season 1 of traitors 1 & told me i couldn’t go do that show Emailed higher ups and everything , Now I see 4 challenge cast members on season 2🤨??? Y’all feel me though ? — Cory Wharton (@CoryWharton) September 19, 2023

Also, while Wes Bergmann (who retired from The Challenge but is joining House of Villains Season 2) claimed to have no interest in joining the cast of The Traitors , he later changed his mind about the show after watching and became a super fan on Twitter — particularly when it came to Phaedra Park’s meme-able work in Season 2. Watch this space. And Veronica Portillo, who returned to The Challenge All Stars for Season 4, wrote on Twitter that she would “love” to be a part of the cast.

Yessssss!!! I would love to be on an adult-like show where you really have to use your brain for once! https://t.co/zleQ7CkyoB — Veronica Portillo. (@v_cakes) January 26, 2024

Meanwhile, Survivor ‘s Rob Cesternino is interested in joining the next season as well. (Coincidentally, his name is one of the most commonly bandied-about prospects on social media. See here , here , and here , for example.) Real World stars Danny Roberts and Melissa Beck also threw their names out there, as well as Matt Rogers, per NYT. And Captain Lee from Below Deck also answered in the affirmative when a social media follower asked if he’d join the show.

Yeah, I think I’d like that. https://t.co/Y7yPxFUggH — Captain Lee (@capthlr) February 10, 2024

Cotton told Variety that “there’s a chance” someone from Season 2 could appear in Season 3; however, he also felt that it was been there done that territory and wanted to “surprise people in a different way with a different casting twist of some sort.” Cotton had a similar sentiment when asked if another politician like John Bercow could be chosen for the show.

Also, Ireland told The Wrap there may be an interest in bringing in “more sports” people after the show had Olympian swimmer Ryan Lochte and former heavyweight champion boxer Deontay Wilder in Season 1 and 2 respectively, and Bravolebrities are “always in consideration” for the gig.

Who do fans want to star in The Traitors Season 3?

Fans are already putting together their wishlists for which reality television favorites (and villains) might make their way into the Scottish castle for a massive murder mystery game, and the choices have been pretty sublime!

Here are some of the best suggestions from the Traitors fanbase so far.

• Alaska Thunderf*** from RuPaul’s Drag Race : After Peppermint was eliminated way too early in the show, drag fans want to see another queen get a shot, and Alaska is at the tippy top of their wishlists.
• Danielle Reyes from Big Brother : One of the most frequent names to pop up on any given The Traitors Season 3 wishlist thread is this highly strategic and socially strong fan favorite.
• Da’Vonne Rogers from Big Brother and The Challenge : There are a lot of fans who want to see her take her wits and charm to the castle, too.
• Dorinda Medley from Real Housewives of New York : Another housewife whose name pops up on a lot of fan-casting lists is this housewife who, despite the meme, is doing well — at least where fans are concerned.
• Jason Kelce from NFL : Now that he’s retired from the NFL, this spitfire of a human could bring some of the wild energy (and belly dancing) to a new game, and a lot of fans would be in favor.
• Joey Graziadei from  The Bachelor : Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Peter Weber proved to be viable competitors, it’s probable that another Bachelor will enter the house, and this is one of the fans want to see … for reasons.
• LeAnn and Trey from Squid Game: The Challenge : Season 2 of The Traitors featured a couple entering the competition, and some fans want to see another pair go head-to-head in Season 3 — this time, the mother-and-son duo who broke everyone’s hearts in the marbles challenge.
• Nene Leakes from The Real Housewives of Atlanta : Since Housewives have become such a mainstay of The Traitors at this point (#PhaedrasImpact), a lot of fans are pointing to Nene Leakes as the one to go for. Her personality can be just the right amount of ebullient to own the house, er castle, in this show.
• Stassi Shroeder from Vanderpump Rules : One consistent name that comes up on social media threads about the next cast is Stassi from VPR . She’d be the first Pump-er to join the show, and she would definitely make her presence known.
• Tom Sandoval from VPR : Another Pump alum that has been at the tip of everyone’s tongues lately is Tom Sandoval, whose infamous Scandoval event has already landed him a reality competition spot on Season 2 of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test .
• Tyson Apostol from Survivor : A lot of fans think this notorious villain of the series — who also had a run-in or two with Season 2 traitor Parvati Shallow — would be a natural fit for the series.

There are also some lowkey chaotic suggestions floating around the web-o-sphere (like Gypsy Rose Blanchard and former U.S. congressman George Santos), so if the producers really want to put folks on edge… Nah.

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