![]() Everything about this finale has the signs of new beginnings and fresh starts. Star Trek Beyond in theaters Friday Live from San Diego. Right before this ending, it’s also vaguely instituted that newcomer Jaylah (Sofia Boutella) might join Star Fleet, and maybe even the crew. Enterprise and each member of the contemporary cast gets to do part of the famous “Space…The Final Frontier” voice-over. But does that also mean William Shatner will return as “Old Kirk?” Is that something we even want?īy the end of Star Trek Beyond, the crew is given a new U.S.S. To put it another way: if the next Star Trek does merge this canon with “old” canon, it could create a really great Back to the Future father-son thing in space. Again, depending on where you stand, or how it’s executed, this could be either excellent or overly self- consciousness. Here, the plot conflicts can be thought-provoking, but the side effect is that the franchise ends up having a conversation with itself about itself. We’ve seen this kind of weird conciliatory retcon predominantly in superhero comic books (like DC’s various iterations of Crisis on Infinite Earths) or even in a weird-time-travel mashup movie like X-Men: Days of Future Past. Through time-travel, will the new Captain Kirk destroy his existing biography? If the next Trek movie gives the new Captain Kirk the potential ability to go back in time and save George Kirk from death, the sticky paradoxical conflict is not only in the aforementioned Trek-tradition, but also, deliciously meta. PG-13 2 hr 2 min Jul 22nd, 2016 Adventure, Action, Science Fiction. It is the 13th film in the Star Trek franchise and the third installment in the reboot series, following Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into. Depending on where you fall on the fan-outrage spectrum this was either a deft way of changing old continuity by honoring it, or a giant slap in the face. Star Trek Beyond (2016) Star Trek Beyond. Star Trek Beyond is a 2016 American science fiction action film directed by Justin Lin, written by Simon Pegg and Doug Jung, and based on the television series Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry. Abrams Star Trek film made fairly big deal of trying to convince the audience that the heroic death of Kirk’s dad just prior his birth changed the entire “original” Star Trek timeline. ![]() Which was the right decision? To get stabbed through the heart? Or to be yourself? Should anybody mess with changing the past? And so, Picard changes his past, and in doing so, undoes the cool, confident person he was destined to become. In the regular timeline, Picard has an artificial heart because he was stabbed in this brawl, which will cause him to probably die because of an accident with his fake-heart in the present. Correlatively, Star Trek: The Next Generation offered the episode “Tapestry,” in which the interdimensional space-god “Q” gave Captain Picard a second chance at avoiding a nearly-fatal bar-fight in his youth.
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