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Star Trek Beyond
Tuesday 15th December, 2015 17:21 Comments: 0
I used to love Star Trek. I would watch episodes of The Next Generation on the BBC before going swimming, before Sky bought the rights, and then I watched TNG, DS9 (possibly my favourite Star Trek series) and Voyager on Sky One (which wasn't particularly easy while I was at university).

I even tried to like Enterprise, but it was around that time that I much preferred watching a myserious and exciting new TV show by JJ Abrams called Alias. I also got excited about Lost (although in hindsight I wish I hadn't, I think I will always feel bitter about the ending). Even What About Brian and Six Degrees were pretty good (even though they were cancelled).

I enjoyed watching The Fast and The Furious, which I watched with friends from university when we met up one summer in Aylesbury. It probably helped that we'd been drinking, but it became a guilty pleasure watching the rest of the movies. Justin Lin took the helm with the relatively low budget The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, which essentially lacked the original cast (Vin Diesel has a brief cameo role), and made just enough money to keep the franchise going. He'd go on to direct the next three movies, before handing over the reins for Furious Seven.

I wasn't entirely happy that Star Trek was rebooted, as I loved the attention to detail everyone (and I mean everyone, even the lawyers would pick up trivial things when reviewing the scripts) gave to ensure chronology and consistency in the Star Trek universe. However, it allowed JJ Abrams to do what he wanted with The Original Series cast without having to be heavily constrained by everything that has already happened in the future. I was sort of fine with that... until he started rehashing the original movies. Seriously, you can do whatever you want, so you steal and copy things? I appreciate some of the scenes are a nod to the original fans, but I would have much preferred new storylines and adventures.

The new Star Trek movie could be exactly that. It could be the perfect blend of action from Justin Lin and intrigue from JJ Abrams, with the chance to see Kirk and the others resolve a storyline that hopefully doesn't revolve around Spock's Brain.

Here's the trailer:



Something tells me that Star Trek Beyond is going to be fun to watch, but ultimately not a proper Star Trek movie.
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