#Star Trek Beyond
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
Vulcan: I regret to inform you that ambassador Spock has died.
Spock:
Vulcan: And also his husband.
Spock:
Vulcan: The ambassador specifically asked us not to tell you who-
Spock: It was Kirk, wasn't it?
Vulcan:
Spock: That motherfucker
116 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
did you know? he gets emails every day!
#star trek#star trek aos#star trek art#star trek fanart#star trek alternate original series#star trek into darkness#star trek beyond#leonard bones mccoy#bones mccoy#doctor mccoy
35 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
So every year or two, I go through a period of reconnecting with my high school Trekkie interests, rewatching some Star Trek clips, episodes, and movies, and during this particular period, I have to voice my main criticism of the reboot films: namely, the treatment of the Enterprise.
To be clear, I think the reboot Enterprise had a nice redesign. She looked very clean and futuristic while capturing the original design in broad strokes. The lens glare is certainly annoying, and it doesnāt have the same heart and retro feel as the original, but I feel they generally did a fairly decent job with the design. Iām talking about how she is treated throughout the films, namely, how sheās treated effectively like just another ship.
In the original series, the Enterprise has a certain heart coming across almost like a character in of herself. You get a clear feel from the characters that they consider the enterprise almost to be home, and Kirk and Scotty in particular see her almost like an actual woman, one who they cherish and will protect at all costs. This sentiment is magnified in the first three movies, particularly in the motion picture and in the search for Spock. When Kirk first sees the refit Enterprise, you can see how much he loves the ship, and when the Enterprise is plunging to her final resting place, the mourning on all of their faces, especially Kirk, makes this moment particularly powerful and truly hammer home that the Enterprise was a character in and of herself. The original Enterprise felt like a character fans had grown up with, and her destruction felt almost like the loss of an old friend. And at the end of the voyage home, when the crew has that last-minute surprise reveal of the Enterprise-A, the triumph and homecoming feeling is so clear that even the audience shares the sentiment, almost as if the character has been reborn.
The enterprise in the reboots was never portrayed this way. She was treated like just a ship, one that mightāve been nicer and fancier and more advanced than the others, but not really all that special beyond that. In the first movie, thatās acceptable, as the focus is on bringing together the crew and getting them where they need to be for the start of their journeys. The second one focuses more on the captaincy, and what it means to really earn that seat, so itās excusable that this one focused more on Kirk and how seriously he took his responsibilities, though they couldāve put more emphasis on the ship as part of that arc. Yes, the ship almost crashing was an emotional scene, but that had everything to do with the characters aboard and nothing to do with the ship beyond it being the place where the characters were and itās damage being the reason that they were about to die.
And then in the third one, they just blow up the ship in the first 30 minutes and try to portray it with the same sentimental weight as the destruction of the Enterprise in the search for Spock. Which wouldāve been fine, if it werenāt for the fact that they spent the last two movies treating the enterprise like just a thing, just another tool in the characters belt. She had no heart, no soul, no feeling that she was a home, or that she was the thing that brought the crew together, and kept them together, the thing that made them a family. She was basically just a big car, there to get them from point A to point B and occasionally shoot at some bad guys, and then, weāre supposed to feel devastated when she goes down for the final time.
The reveal of a reboot version of the Enterprise A was a nice surprise, but it lacked the emotional payoff of the original version, largely because of how ordinary the first Enterprise had been in this timeline. You canāt really celebrate the revival of a lost character when the character was never really there to begin with. They might as well have put the crew on an entirely new ship, like maybe a rebooted version of the Excelsior, and it wouldāve had the same basic impact.
My point is that classic trek, as well as the next generation and DS9, did an excellent job of portraying the dynamic between captain and ship to the point where the ship felt almost like a real character. And that worked really well. It made the crash of the Enterprise D in generations a shocking scene, and it made her surprise return in season 3 of Picard a heartfelt and deeply nostalgic scene (Even if I wanted the Enterprise E, sorry but sheās my favorite). It made the loss of the Defiant in season seven of DS9 a powerful and emotional moment. I havenāt watched a lot of Voyager, so I canāt comment on that, but I can say with decent confidence that they couldnāt have done worse than they did in the reboots.ļæ¼
#star trek#star trek the original series#star trek the next generation#star trek reboot#star trek ds9#ds9#deep space nine#star trek into darkness#star trek beyond#uss enterprise#ncc 1701#enterprise a#enterprise d#enterprise e#james t kirk#mr spock#dr mccoy#tos scotty#mr scott#star trek the motion picture#star trek ii: the wrath of khan#star trek iii: the search for spock#star trek iv: the voyage home#star trek picard#star trek generations#jean luc picard#kobayashi maru#uss defiant#uss voyager
21 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
Star Trek Beyond (2016) // Dir. Justin Lin
#Star Trek#Beyond#Star Trek Beyond#Spock#Bones McCoy#Leonard McCoy#Zachary Quinto#Karl Urban#Justin Lin#Star Trek Gifs#Star Trek Beyond Gifs#Movie#Movies#Film#Films#Movie Gifs#Gifs#AVMovie#AVMovieGifs#AVGifs#AVStarTrek#AVStarTrekGifs#AVStarTrekBeyond#AVStarTrekBeyondGifs
602 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
can't a mad scientist get in ONE good brood around here
#star trek#star trek aos#leonard mccoy#jim kirk#mckirk#bones mccoy#captain kirk#star trek beyond#mackmp3#vetchtibbles#looks like kvetchtribbles if you squint which is practically bones#tumblr things#things i found on tumblr#textpost meme#also for any writers: it's wracked with guilt. not racked. wracked. please
703 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
Iām still freaking out about Spock Primeās TOS crew photo from Beyond
Yes, I know this is 8 years old at this point but my Autistic Brain decided to freak out about this again today for no reason at all so hear me out bc it drives me absolutely NUTS every time I think about it.
So basically, the circumstances required for Reboot Spock to find this photo in Spock Primeās possessions after he died are absolutely wild. Letās walk through it shall we:
First thing to remember is that this photo does not exist in the Kelvin timeline. At all. The characters all look different and even if theyāre supposed to canonically grow up to look exactly the same as the TOS characters, Spock Prime went back in time from his own universe so the photo cannot exist in the Kelvin timeline, at least yet.
Second thing is that Spock Prime must have carried this photo on his person when he went back in time in the jellyfish ship.
This is because Nero captured Spock (and his ship) and stranded him on Delta Vega, presumably with nothing but the clothes on his back and whatever else he might happen to have been carrying in his pockets.
Also, he couldnāt have stored the photo on his ship to retrieve later because Reboot Spock blew it up to ignite the red matter and destroy Neroās ship. So whatever Spock Prime brought with him from the Prime Universe must have been on his person when he was stranded on Delta Vega.
Now, when Spock first sees Reboot Kirk in the cave, he says the classic āI have been and always shall be your friendā along with āIt is remarkably pleasing to see you again, old friend.ā
If we take a peek at the timeline for a sec, Kirk Prime disappeared into the Nexus in Star Trek: Generations in the year 2293, when everyone presumably thought he died. Now, Kirk did reappear into ānormal space/timeā in the year 2371 when the rest of Generations takes place, but only Picard really saw Kirk before he died for realāso basically, the last time Spock could have seen Kirk Prime was in 2293. In the Prime Universe, the Romulan star went supernova in 2387, which is when Spock Prime goes back and creates the Kelvin Timeline.
SO: all this means that it has been at least 94 years (2293-2387) since Spock Prime has seen a Kirk in any universe. THEREFORE: this means that Spock Prime was carrying THAT TOS CREW PHOTO on his person 94 years after the last time he had seen Kirk. Whether he had been carrying it on his person for the entirety of those 94 years, or just during his mission to try and save Romulus, or something in between is anyoneās guess. But basically, even almost a century later, Spock thought those people and that photo were important enough to take with him on his body when he was sent to save Romulus. (A mission that required extreme speed and efficiency, if I might add).
ANYWAY: the photo in Beyond is shown as a rather small, yet touching, moment of nostalgia for fans of the original Star Trek show, but when you really start to think about what was required for that photo to exist in Reboot Spockās possession at that moment, it just starts to drive me a little bit absolutely bonkers.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. Have a nice day.
#yup it's time to get Pedantic#no Iām still not over this and probably never will be#yes i'm insane#Star Trek#Star Trek beyond#star trek the original series#star trek alternate original series#tos#aos#spirk#Star Trek tos#Star Trek aos#beyond#uss-spirk-textpost#Spock prime#Spock#reboot Spock#cute#star trek tos crew#tos crew#Iām screaming
962 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
shit james t. kirk graffitied on the side of riverside silos as a teenager
#heās midwestern and proud of it yall#star trek#star trek tos#star trek aos#star trek into darkness#star trek 2009#star trek beyond#jim kirk#james t kirk#star trek kirk#star trek reboot#star trek memes#star trek movies#star trek the original series#americanbiās posts
1K notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
Chaos trio, theyāre so ridiculous
#Star Trek#star trek beyond#star trek into darkness#bones mccoy#leonard mccoy#leonard bones mccoy#spock#jim kirk#james kirk#james t kirk#star trek aos#aos#literally not a real movie just two hours of them trying to sacrifice themselves for one of the other ones in a fucking triangular cycle#men canāt have normal friendships only self sacrificing tendencies and emotional repression#and Shakespearean tragic romance style lines that somehow are supposed to be platonic#ridiculous movies I love them so much
870 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
LEONARD 'BONES' MCCOY STAR TREK (2009ā2016)
#trekedit#startrekedit#star trek#treksource#startrekgifs#tvedit#chewieblog#userbbelcher#useroptional#cinemapix#mine*#sd*#moviegifs#filmedit#filmgifs#karl urban#aos#star trek (2009)#star trek into darkness#star trek beyond#leonard mccoy
2K notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
Look for the differences (there are none)
Star Trek Beyond (2016)
#star trek#james t kirk#jim kirk#captain kirk#meme#chubby bubbles girl#star trek beyond#star trek aos#I mean#they even both wear yellow
600 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
Doing an AOS rewatch, and it's absolutely baffling that they had Spock wear this monstrosity of an outfit instead of the traditional vulcan robes. What in the gradpa on a cruise vacation ass shirt is this??? It's so fucking ugly??? I'm gonna cry why did they do this to him
186 notes
Ā·
View notes
Photo
STAR TREK BEYOND (2016)
#star trek#trekedit#startrekedit#tvedit#chewieblog#userbbelcher#cinemapix#useroptional#trekdaily#moviegifs#filmedit#filmgifs#*#by soph#aos#star trek beyond#aosedit#jim kirk#leonard mccoy
2K notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
Happy Star Trek Day!
#star trek day#star trek#star trek original series#star trek the next generation#star trek voyager#star trek deep space nine#star trek enterprise#star trek discovery#star trek lower decks#star trek strange new worlds#star trek prodigy#star trek picard#star trek the motion picture#star trek ii: the wrath of khan#star trek iii: the search for spock#star trek iv: the voyage home#star trek v: the final frontier#star trek vi: the undiscovered country#star trek generations#star trek first contact#star trek insurrection#star trek nemesis#star trek 2009#star trek into darkness#star trek beyond
150 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
Star Trek Beyond (2016) // Dir. Justin Lin
#Star Trek#Star Trek Beyond#Beyond#Star Trek Gifs#Bones McCoy#Leonard McCoy#Spock#Karl Urban#Zachary Quinto#Justin Lin#Movies#Films#Movie#Film#Movie Gifs#Star Trek Beyond Gifs#Gifs#AVMovie#AVMovieGifs#AVGifs#AVStarTrek#AVStarTrekGifs#AVStarTrekBeyond#AVStarTrekBeyondGifs
510 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
...Spock, what's your favourite colour?
#star trek#star trek aos#leonard mccoy#spock#star trek ds9#star trek beyond#the way of the warrior#quark#odo#incorrect trek#incorrect trek quotes#correct trek quotes but wrong series
447 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
One reason it sucks that Suicide Squad beat Star Trek Beyond is that not enough people realize how hard they went with the makeup on Beyond. They go "yeah the shell head alien is cool, but that's all" but they made fifty new alien designs for it, bc it was the fiftieth anniversary, and all of them are like. Full designs. I read an interview at the time where they said it'd be normal to make the background ones simpler, just body paint and simple prosthetics, but they didn't
Most of them were only on screen for a few seconds. Thankfully a couple have reappeared on Disco so they're not locked off in this movie forever
One byproduct of this I like is that Beyond is like. The most heterogeneous Starfleet's been on screen. It's a movie where it's plot relevant that Starfleet has officers with headcrabs coming out of their brain. Beyond was so good
725 notes
Ā·
View notes