STAR TREK
BEYOND

Series: Star Trek: The Movies - (1979-2025)
Movie: #13
Release Date: July 22nd, 2016

Story: Simon Pegg & Doug Jung
Screenplay: Simon Pegg & Doug Jung
Director: Justin Lin

Cast:
Chris Pine as James T. Kirk
Zachary Quinto as Spock
Zoë Saldana as Nyota Uhura
Karl Urban as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy
Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov
John Cho as Hikaru Sulu
Simon Pegg as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
Sofia Boutella as Jaylah
Idris Elba as Krall
Joe Taslim as Manas
Lydia Wilson as Kalara
Deep Roy as Keenser
Melissa Roxburgh as Ensign Syl
Shohreh Aghdashloo as Commodore Paris
Greg Grunberg as Commander Finnegan

Also Starring:
Anita Brown as Tyvanna
Doug Jung as Ben
Danny Pudi as Fi'Ja
Kim Kold as Zavanko
Fraser Aitcheson as Hider
Matthew MacCaull as a Blue Shirt
Emy Aneke as a Blue Shirt
Jennifer Cheon Garcia as a Control Tower Technician
Jarod Joseph as a Control Tower Technician
Jeremy Raymond as a Control Tower Technician
Harry Han as a Kissing Guy
Gina Brinkman as a Kissing Girl
Adam DiMarco as a Injured Red Shirt
Fiona Vroom as an Orion Girl
Richard Laurence as a Chancellor Ambassador
Douglas Chapman as Sir Olden
Dan Payne as Wadjet
Anthony Shim as Jin
Andrea Yu as Jeanine
Shea Whigham as the Teenaxi Leader (voice)
Christian Sloan as Jae
Jake Huang as Krall's Henchman
Priya Rajaratnam as Night Watch Captain
Luka Hays as a Yorktown Red Shirt
Thomas Cadrot as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Jennifer W. Evans as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Roxanne Fernandes as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Jake Foy as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Jodi Haynes as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Nathan Jean as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Tarun Keram as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
J.P. Mulcaster as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Edwin Rodriguez as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Alex Rose as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Polina Nikolai-Soldatova as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Lia Lam as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew (as Sarah Yu)
Ian David Nsenga as a U.S.S. Enterprise Bridge Crew
Ashley Edner as Natalia
Sara Maria Forsberg as the Kalara Alien (voice)
Jeff Bezos as a Starfleet Official

Stardate: 2263.2

Synopsis

Three years into its five year mission, the USS Enterprise arrives at Starbase Yorktown, a massive space station, for resupply and shore leave for her tired crew. Struggling to find continued meaning in their mission of exploration given the endless nature of that objective, Captain James Kirk has applied for a promotion to Vice Admiral and commanding officer of Yorktown. He recommends Spock as the new captain of the Enterprise. Meanwhile, Hikaru Sulu reunites with his family, Montgomery Scott works to keep the ship operational, and Spock and Nyota Uhura amicably end their relationship; Spock also receives word from New Vulcan that Ambassador Spock (Spock's future self from another timeline) has died.

The Enterprise is dispatched on a rescue mission after an escape pod drifts out of a nearby uncharted nebula. The survivor, Kalara, claims her ship is stranded on Altamid, a planet within the nebula. The rescue turns into an ambush when the Enterprise is immediately overwhelmed by a massive swarm of small ships and quickly torn apart. Krall, and his crew board the ship, and unsuccessfully search for a relic called an Abronath that Kirk had obtained for a failed diplomatic mission. Krall captures and removes many crew members from the ship. As the Enterprise's crippled saucer section hurtles towards the planet, Kirk gives the "abandon ship" order.

On the planet's surface, Sulu, Uhura, and other survivors are captured by Krall. Kirk and navigator Pavel Chekov, accompanied by Kalara, locate the wrecked saucer section. Kalara is discovered to be Krall's ally when she tries to retrieve the Abronath. To escape Krall's soldiers, Kirk activates the still functional boosters, causing the saucer to lurch forward, crushing Kalara. Meanwhile, a wounded Spock and Dr. Leonard McCoy search for other survivors. Spock confides to McCoy that he intends to leave Starfleet to continue the late Ambassador Spock's work on New Vulcan. Meanwhile, Scott is rescued by Jaylah, a scavenger who previously escaped Krall's encampment. She takes Scott to her makeshift home, the grounded USS Franklin, an early Starfleet vessel reported missing over a century earlier. Scott is reunited with Kirk, Chekov, McCoy, and Spock. Using the ship as a base, they plot to raid Krall's camp and transport the crew to the Franklin, then escape the planet in the repaired Franklin. Meanwhile, Krall coerces Ensign Syl to hand over the Abronath that she had kept hidden for Kirk. The Abronath is the missing half of an ancient bioweapon, created by the planet's original inhabitants that can instantaneously disintegrate a humanoid. With the device now complete, Krall intends to attack Yorktown and kill its inhabitants, and, using its advanced technology, go on to attack the Federation. Krall demonstrates its deadly effect on Ensign Syl. Kirk and the others free the crew as Krall launches into space with the bioweapon, leading his drone fleet to Yorktown.

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The Starfleet crew pursues Krall in the Franklin. Scott transports Spock and McCoy into one of Krall's drone ships. After dispatching the pilot, they learn that VHF transmissions can disrupt Krall's communications and destroy his fleet. Krall and his three surviving officers crash in Yorktown. As Krall flees into the city, Uhura and Kirk discover from the Franklin's logs that 'Krall' is actually Balthazar Edison, the former captain of the Franklin. A pre Federation human soldier, Edison became disillusioned with the newly founded Federation, rejecting its principles of unity and cooperation with former enemies. When he and his crew were stranded on Altamid by a rogue wormhole, he believed the Federation had deliberately abandoned them. The three survivors prolonged their lives with the technology of the planet's extinct natives (at the cost of their crewmates and their human physiology), and repurposed that species' dormant drone workers into the swarm. Krall now plans to destroy the Federation to resume galactic conflict. Kirk pursues Krall into Yorktown's ventilation system, where Krall activates the bioweapon. Before it can be unleashed, Kirk ejects the weapon and Krall into space. Spock and McCoy save Kirk moments before he is also sucked into open space.

Kirk opts to remain as captain, and Spock chooses to stay in Starfleet and resumes his relationship with Uhura. Jaylah is accepted into Starfleet Academy based on Kirk's recommendation. As the crew celebrates Kirk's birthday, they view the construction of their new ship, USS Enterprise-A.

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