{"id":283,"date":"2016-07-25T09:24:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T13:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2016-07-25T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T13:24:52","slug":"star-trek-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

First let me say that I\u2019d never seen a film in IMAX 3D<\/a> until today.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t think it mattered much, and didn\u2019t want to wear the glasses.\u00a0 Let me tell you: it matters \u2013 very realistic 3D \u2013 and the glasses didn\u2019t detract from the experience, even though I wore them over my own specs.\u00a0 So if you haven\u2019t tried this, you should.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d also like to express a small amount of disappointment that we didn\u2019t get the first adventure in the new five-year mission.\u00a0 I would like to have seen an episode more like something from the original series \u2013 or The Wrath of Khan<\/a><\/em> (the best Star Trek<\/em> episode ever made, by the way, bar none).\u00a0 The swashbuckling crew encounters alien race that presents a problem, they solve it just in the nick of time, and viewers get some humorous banter on the bridge in the final scene.\u00a0 This from Journey to Babel<\/a><\/em>, for example.\u00a0 Or the classic Trouble with Tribbles<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

But Star Trek: Beyond<\/a><\/em> is an excellent film and a great episode in the series.\u00a0 The special effects were excellent, and for the most part things didn\u2019t move too quickly \u2013 viewers could follow the flight of ships and the back and forth of fights without getting too lost.\u00a0 I think they could have made the reason for the mission clearer and foreshadowed a couple of things more effectively.\u00a0 But the film carried a classic Trek story line and theme.<\/p>\n

I was 8 years old when Gene Rodenberry<\/a> sold \u201cWagon Train to the Stars\u201d to CBS in 1966.\u00a0 For a kid who devoured Asimov<\/a> and Heinlein<\/a> stories this was television I could really buy into.\u00a0 I remember hoping for rainouts of my little league games so I could stay home and watch.\u00a0 As a kid I simply loved the idea of this naval vessel exploring space with a diverse crew that cared for each other and clearly loved their lives and careers together.\u00a0 In no small measure, this influenced my later decision to serve in the Army.\u00a0 So yes, I\u2019ve been a fan and aTrekkie for fifty years.<\/p>\n

So the best part of Star Trek: Beyond<\/em> for me was the interplay among the crew.\u00a0 Every single actor in the core Kirk\/Spock\/McCoy\/Uhura\/Sulu\/Checkov executive team helps evoke the dynamic in the original series.\u00a0 Karl Urban<\/a> knocks it out of the park as McCoy<\/a> \u2013 he is perfectly cast for this role \u2013 and I would say the same about Simon Pegg<\/a>\u2019s Scotty<\/a>.\u00a0 Chris Pine<\/a> does Captain Kirk<\/a> nicely as well, and without becoming William Shatner<\/a>.\u00a0 I like Quinto<\/a>\u2019s Spock<\/a> as well.\u00a0 Though he comes across as young an inexperienced, he does the \u201cVulcan\u201d speech inflections well.\u00a0 Cho<\/a>, Saldana<\/a>, and Yelchin<\/a> round out the core crew with great takes on the characters \u2013 Yelchin perfectly delivers the \u201cScotch was inwented by a little old lady in Russia\u201d line, though it was Leningrad in the original version.\u00a0 It\u2019s terribly sad and a crying damn shame that a freak accident ended such a promising career so early.<\/p>\n

Go see Star Trek: Beyond<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 It will satisfy your craving for a Trek<\/em> film and excite you for the next one.\u00a0 And if you can, try it in IMAX 3D.\u00a0 It works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First let me say that I\u2019d never seen a film in IMAX 3D until today.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t think it mattered much, and didn\u2019t want to wear the glasses.\u00a0 Let me tell you: it matters \u2013 very realistic 3D \u2013 and the glasses didn\u2019t detract from the experience, even though I wore them over my own specs.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-star-trek"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}