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Star Trek Beyond Movie Review

What I liked: I liked the little tie ins to the older movies and the show especially how the opening refers to the crew's life as "episodic." They also did a good job of acknowledging the Spock actor's death, it was a nice touch. Also the ever present "I'm a doctor not a..." I liked the motorcycle chase, I can't really say why you would have a motor cycle in space especially one that still has wheels instead of some kind of levitation system, or why a centuries old motorbike would still be in working order, but it was fun anyway. I liked the sticky foam. A gun fight on top of a moving train is a staple of classic movies. How can one improve on that? Why, a gun fight atop a moving space ship of course. I love that they pulled an attack of the killer tomatoes, that isn't really an often repeated troupe. Absurd as it was it is pretty invigorating. The grew dynamics were mostly spot on and the tracking device dialog was great. I liked the space station, I'm not entirely clear on the whole gravity situation or really any of their life support systems and am pretty sure that their coast guard is staffed by the coast guard people from Jurassic Park II, but the station itself is quite stunning. I am impressed with the construction of the space ships. Having seen gravity, where tiny space debris completely destroys multiple space ships, clearly NASA is under performing since the startrek ships completely survive flying through mountains.

What I didn't: What exactly was the evil plan? I admit to being surprised by the ending because actually it made no sense. Like at all. What were they thinking? Also why is there a giant fan in the middle of a giant city but also gong right out to space? Every time I want to have a way of releasing all of the air from my biosphere into the vacuum of space I think, wow it's lucky I didn't have a vent that I could open to do that on a whim. What exactly was going on with the stealing peoples energy thing? It wasn't really related to the plot or the bad guy's powers or used more than 3 times in the film.  Also where did all of the evil bug pilots come from? Does that mean they don't eat everyone they capture? What exactly are they mining? I'm just trying to figure out the recruitment strategy: "Come be part of a super impressive space cloud, in your off time you will guard a mine shaft and possibly get eaten, we're not sure. We would offer you retirement benefits or a cut of the profits if we knew what those would be." Where do they keep all those ships it really looks like about the mass of thee small planet, does that mean that the planet changes orbits between when they land and take off? Why do they never shoot the bad guy. Hello bad guy about to destroy the planet I'm going to point a gun at you and do absolutely nothing, ever, or until you stab me. Which ever comes first.

Who should watch this? Startrek lovers. If you liked the first two, you will like this one

Would I watch it again? Definitely some of the scenes, potentially the whole movie.
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