#Star Trek Beyond

[astralbondpro]

Star Trek Beyond (2016) // Dir. Justin Lin

[trek-tracks]

can't a mad scientist get in ONE good brood around here

[uss-spirk]

I’m still freaking out about Spock Prime’s 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 Prime’s possessions after he died are absolutely wild. Let’s 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 they’re 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 couldn’t have stored the photo on his ship to retrieve later because Reboot Spock blew it up to ignite the red matter and destroy Nero’s 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 “I have been and always shall be your friend” along with “It is remarkably pleasing to see you again, old friend.”

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 ‘normal space/time’ in the year 2371 when the rest of Generations takes place, but only Picard really saw Kirk before he died for real—so 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 anyone’s 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 Spock’s 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.

[miss-americanbi]

shit james t. kirk graffitied on the side of riverside silos as a teenager

[ech-e-sketch]

Chaos trio, they’re so ridiculous

[aenslem]

LEONARD 'BONES' MCCOY STAR TREK (2009–2016)

[purpleenma]

Look for the differences (there are none)

Star Trek Beyond (2016)

[trek-daily]

STAR TREK BEYOND (2016)

[robbiebear540]

Happy Star Trek Day!

[lizardsfromspace]

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

[astralbondpro]

Star Trek Beyond (2016) // Dir. Justin Lin

[trek-tracks]

...Spock, what's your favourite colour?

[genuinelyjulian]

"Better to die saving lives, than to live taking them"

I never say this but; SLAYY

[icantspellthings]

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

[affixjoy]

[woman-of-many-fandoms]

So something I've been wondering is if the ST writers are trying to set up necklaces for Vulcans being like rings are for humans. As a marriage thing. We see T'pring give Spock a necklace when they 'get engaged' (I know they technically did as kids). Uhura had that necklace in Beyond that was Spock's mother's. And Old Spock wore the old necklace of Kirk. Maybe it's just Spock.