Did anybody notice, buried way down in the credits, that the FX Lead is a man named James Kirk? My first thought was that it was some kind of Easter egg, but he’s an actual person with a whole slew of credits (including the first film in the rebooted series). I have not yet been able to ascertain if his middle name is Tiberius. I would hope that his parents weren’t THAT obsessed.
I understand his middle initial is G.
For Gandalf.
On that note, the USS Zumwalt, one of the newer destroyers in the US Navy, is commanded by a Captain James Kirk. As you can imagine, the press had a field day with that one, with his reaction being basically a good-natured admission that he had been hearing jokes about his name for his entire naval career.
My wife and I finally saw this today. Firm meh on it. Ok, but not great. Better than the two previous reboot movies, but that’s really not a high bar to clear.
Liked the fact that the crew actually felt like a team in this one, they seemed to have a better handle on who all the crew members are and what they should be doing now. I’m really not a fan of the poorly lit shakey-cam style of shooting action scenes that’s popular these days.
That was one very poorly designed and unsafe control system for that station’s life support. I’d complain more, but the Federation has consistently had horrible industrial controls design from the start, so this is really just in keeping with their philosophy.
The villain’s superweapon was surprisingly unimpressive. You went through all that, and you ended up with a device that produces a sort of particulate cloud that slowly disintergrates organic matter. The cloud of swarm ships was much scarier, just stick with those. My suspicion is that the bad guy didn’t actually know what the weapon was really capable of until he got it. The civilization that made it and threw it out into space thought it was a superweapon, but apparently their standards for superweapons were really low, and he was just going off their exaggerated claims of it. Then, when you’ve worked for a hundred years and finally gotten your hands on the fabled artifact, it’s not like you can just say to everyone “Sorry, this thing’s crap, never mind on the vengeance plan”. You have to go ahead with even if it’s actually less efficient than just shooting people.
Speaking of those swarm ships - how many of them were there supposed to be? When they were landed on the surface of the planet it looked like a few hundred, but then at the end it seemed like hundreds of thousands to make that large of a cloud.
Bumped.
The Star Trek Beyond gag reel has been released: https://www.accesshollywood.com/videos/star-trek-beyond-digital-hd-gag-reel-exclusive-first-look/
No, but that’s a line I’d love to hear in Idris Elba’s voice. 