Star Trek
Beyond is the third and currently final instalment in the Star Trek reboot
series. The series would still have a future in its series on streaming but the
adventures of Captain Kirk would seem to be at an end for the moment, with
Chris Pine becoming Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman, and somehow will be in its
sequel despite being dead and all.
When it
comes to the writers we’re out with the old and in the with the Simon Pegg, who
has certainly written stuff before but is mostly well known for comedy. Doug
Jung joins him and his experience is mostly in TV. JJ Abrams has stepped back
into a producer’s role, with Justin Lin taking over as director.
Released in
July 2016, just 2 months off the series’ 50th anniversary, made on a
$185m budget, the film underperformed, making just $314m at the box office. Having
to compete with Ghostbusters, Jason Bourne, and Suicide Squad, 2/3 of which are
terrible, and the other only slightly less terrible, didn’t help, attributing
to a 63% drop in the box office on the second Friday, and lead to an estimated
$50m loss for the studio.
The series
continued to get critical praise, with an 85% Rotten Tomatoes rating and an 80%
audience rating with averages 7/10 and 3.88/5 respectively. So, what happened
here? Let’s take a look
