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The first trailer for Star Trek Beyond hit YouTube today, only if the film is accurately reflected in what nosotros've seen thus far, I may not bother watching.

Always since JJ Abrams rebooted Star Expedition in 2009, you've had a group of die-difficult fans arguing that he completely misunderstood the Trek universe, ignored its fundamentals, and wrote a Star Wars movie with mini-skirts and insane amounts of lens flare. By and large, I wasn't one of them. I never cared for the giant Enterprise with super-sized warp nacelles and I disliked its inconsistent use of established Star Trek technology, just I thought the flick worked reasonably well — certainly meliorate than the last TNG film, Nemesis.

Star Expedition Into Darkness kicked off with interesting developments that could accept highlighted the tension in Kirk and Spock's early friendship and offset it confronting Kirk'south loss of the Enterprise to Captain Superhighway — something that never happened in the original Star Trek canon. Instead, Abrams dumped the offset of an altogether new story in favor of shoehorning as many phone call-outs to the original Star Expedition Two: The Wrath of Khan every bit possible.

If you can beam to Qo'noS, why is anyone using starships?

If you lot can beam to Qo'noS, why is anyone using starships?

The use of technology became even more breathless: Starships that can travel hundreds of low-cal years in minutes, transporters that beam beyond the galaxy, "superblood," and phaser blasts powerful enough to push the Enterprise from a position betwixt Earth and the Moon deep into Earth's temper were just a few of the highlights. Worse, though, it fundamentally misunderstood what made Star Trek Ii work.

The Wrath of Khan is a pic about nigh living with the choices we brand when we're young. It's virtually the opportunities we seize, and the ones nosotros let slip away. Now in his 50s (in the picture), Kirk doesn't just face down a villain from his past, merely his own conclusion to prioritize being a starship captain over condign a husband and a father. The "no-win scenario" discussed in the picture isn't a doomed mission to rescue a freighter, but the inevitability of death itself. The terminal scene with Kirk and Spock works, cinematically, because these are 2 centre-aged men who take literally known each other for decades. Each had shaped the other, in real life and on-screen. Trying to force that aforementioned dynamic into the second movie near a young crew was doomed to fail from the first.

Star Trek Beyond was supposed to exist the film that put the emphasis back on exploration, just the trailer shows very petty of that promise on-screen. Watch the trailer below:

Nosotros come across the enterprise hammered by a swarm of flechettes and at least some of the major crew using escape pods to reach a planet's surface. Information technology's heavily implied that the swarm of projectiles either crippled or outright destroyed the Enterprise — in the first scene, where we run into them punching through the hull, the port nacelle is already gone.

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That's not gonna vitrify out.

The later shot of a destroyed saucer section either shows the Enterprise's hull or ane of her sister-ships. Either this is an epic fake-out, or Abrams and coiffure accept once once more decided that the merely way to serve up Star Expedition to the masses is to merely copy the events of the previous films. In Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, the Enterprise (and, as far as the coiffure knew, the careers of anybody who stole her) was destroyed for a reason. While information technology isn't likewise-regarded as some of the other films in the serial, the idea that the crew of the Enterprise would agree to a hare-brained scheme to assist Spock if at that place was any chance he could have survived fit thematically with the remainder of the serial. Hither, the Enterprise but goes poof. No explanation. No item significance.

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The residual of the trailer looks more than like The Fast and the Furious serial that Justin Lin previously directed. Nosotros meet aliens kick-boxing, Kirk on a motorcycle, and what look like micro-bombers strafing an unidentified planet. All with the tagline "This is where the frontier pushes back." And then some shots of Starfleet crewmembers at what appears to exist some kind of labor camp or prison house (it's non clear based on the few seconds of screen time). All set to The Beastie Boys.

Information technology'southward impossible to gauge a movie based on a 93-second trailer, but the only adept scene in the unabridged arc is the McCoy / Spock bit. Unfortunately, it looks like this movie is going to proceed the worst parts of Abram's reboot — slavishly copying some of the dialog and scenarios of the previous films, even where it makes no sense to do so, while refusing to show any the relationships that made the original worth watching. You can practice an action-oriented Star Trek, maintain narrative evolution, and show the development of relationships — but that doesn't seem to exist the film that Abrams or Lin are interested in making.

At least there's less lens flare. So far.