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“The way they defeated the aliens in Star Trek Beyond is unrealistic!”

For your convenience, here is a list of some other ways Star Trek villains have been defeated:

  • By Kirk reciting the Declaration of Independence really passionately
  • Kirk literally fighting himself
  • Kirk fighting himself again (this time while Spock watched)
  • Fat tribbles eating the problem away
  • Dr. McCoy applying mortar to an acidic rock creature
  • Spock mind-melding with a probe
  • Literal whales
  • The power of love defeating V’ger
  • Spock killing Kirk instead of having sex (Kirk got better)
  • An omnipotent being got his ass grounded by his parents
  • By doing literally nothing and history happened the way it would have anyway (plus there was a cat who turned into a hot lady)
  • The crew dressed up in suits and threatened to shoot gangsters
  • Kirk explaining birth control to an overpopulated planet
  • By making children cry

So you see, Beyond is actually well within the Star Trek tradition of ridiculousness. 

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Doug and I had this idea of this love token of Uhura’s coming back later in the film to help them find out where she was located. So we had this idea of a radioactive mineral. We saw the humor that Spock is basically keeping track of her! But we didn’t have a name for it, so we reached out to the guys who created Memory Alpha, which is this Star Trek Wikipedia. It was an exhaustive, invaluable resource for Doug and I since we would fact-check everything, like what’s inside of a frozen torpedo or what year the first annex vessel made its maiden voyage. And we wrote to the guys and we said “Look, we have this thing and it needs a name, and we’d like you to be part of this movie and have your name in the credits, can you name it for us?” and they came back in about two hours with a really detailed, etymological breakdown of the word VULCYA in its syllabic structure, where it was from, what part of Vulcan, how it had evolved, etc. It just goes to show how awesome Star Trek fans can be. We just wanted a name, but fine, we’ll take this encyclopedia of the word and use it in the film. It was a nice way to include the fans in this 50th Anniversary. If it weren’t for the fans, the show would’ve been cancelled in its third season. It’s been kept alive by those people.

Simon Pegg about Uhura’s necklace from star trek beyond  (via spockuhuralove)
Source: nationalboardofreview.org

Spock??? nah whatever I don’t even like Spock that much— [trips] [hundreds of thousands of drawings of Spock spill out of sketchbook] w-wait a fucking- I these arent mine I’m just [gathering them up frantically sweating] listen I just- listen fuck [thousands of pictures of Spock scatter across the floor] shit fcuk I’m holding them for a friend just listen

In a summer filled with blockbusters that either take themselves too seriously or don’t try to tell a story, Beyond is a gleeful race through outer space, with a genuinely compelling (if easy-to-figure-out) mystery at its center.
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And all along, the characters are bickering and bantering and figuring things out, showing off the easy chemistry the cast has built up over the past two movies. This sort of storytelling should be at the center of most blockbusters, but increasingly, big-budget flicks are overwhelmed by the need to chase spectacle.
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This is not a perfect movie, but it’s a near-perfect Star Trek movie.

Star Trek Beyond wants to remind you why you love Star Trek

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