We’ve all had a couple days to ruminate on the second theatrical trailer from Star Trek Beyond. I won’t go into how much fans disliked the first theatrical trailer released this past December because that’s old hat. We’ll just say it wasn’t well received: too much action, too little old school Star Trek. We want to know, did anything change with this trailer? I mean, we heard so many promises from Justin Lin and Simon Pegg that the trailer would be very different.
Well the answer is a big fat YES! Take a look:
https://youtu.be/HzWIGFiGrlA
This trailer was visually creative – showing the Enterprise in ways it has never been seen before. I mean Holy Gorn! Is that the Enterprise traveling through a warp bubble?
This new trailer also had heart – yes, I said heart. And that is a trait that Star Trek has always had so it was lovely to see it. And, it had what seems to be an intriguing and well written “good vs. evil” plot with Idris Elba as the big baddie!
Here are a few observations:
1. Kirk: My dad joined Starfleet because he believed in it. I joined on a dare.
McCoy: You joined to see if you could live up to him
Kirk’s got daddy issues (Don’t we all?) We see in Kirk’s conversation with McCoy that he hasn’t fully dealt with losing his father before he was born. Not only that, but his father died a hero. So what we may see in Star Trek Beyond is Kirk finally becoming his own man and not under the self-created and pain-inflicting shadow of his father.
2. One of my favorite parts of the trailer is Shohreh Aghdashloo’s voice. It is resonant and full of gravitas! (Seriously, she’s the female Morgan Freeman) She also delivers one of the best lines of the trailer: It’s not uncommon, you know? It’s easy to get lost in the vastness of space. There’s only yourself, your ship, your crew.
Aghdashloo joined the cast during reshoots and is playing High Command of the Federation.
3. When I first glanced the enemy swarm ships in the previously released trailer, aside from thinking, they’re destroying the Enterprise AGAIN! I thought wow, those look like the Replicators from Stargate SG-1 (that may be a stretch for some of you but not my brain).
However, in this trailer, we see that these are much larger ships than first anticipated and they are cutting through the Enterprise with voracious intensity. At one point, Uhura states, “They’re boarding us.” So, were they enemies inside these burrowing ships or were they the first wave?
4. The Enterprise is forced to abandon ship with some escaping and some getting captured.
5. Sofia Boutella (Kingsman) will be playing Jaylah and she seems all kinds of BAMF. She is personally familiar with the predicament the Enterprise is in, even saying “every one who goes there, he kills.”
6. Idris Elba is playing the antagonist. The enemy. The villain. The one we are going to love to hate. He is playing Krall and just from the small glimpses we see of Krall, he may go down in Star Trek history as one of the best bad guys.
7. Krall: Unity is not your strength. It is a weakness.
Kirk: I think you’re underestimating humanity
It comes back to humanity and that is why many Trekkies will love this trailer. Good Star Trek always has humans searching, striving, yearning, reaching, bettering and saving ourselves and others. With the perfect understated delivery that Chris Pine gave this line, I’m sure many fans got the Star Trek soul we’ve been sadly missing.
8. And finally, what is this space station thing? It looks like it has atmosphere. Is this where Krall sends people? GAH!!!!
I love it when trailers don’t give it all away.
I’ll tell you this, I haven’t felt this sense of dread for the Enterprise since it was thrown into the world of the Borg by Q and that is awesome!
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