Subj : Star Trek Beyond
To   : Al Kaiser
From : Allen Prunty
Date : Sun Jul 31 2016 16:41:47

  Re: Star Trek Beyond
  By: Al Kaiser to All on Tue Jul 12 2016 05:25 am

 AK> I'm wondering if they have time to add a tribute to Anton Yelchin in the
 AK> in the credits?

They did I specifically read the credits to see.  They did an "In Memorium"
credit for Leonard Nimoy and had a touching moment at the end with New Spock
where he opened the box of posessions from "Ambassador Spock" that contined his
meditation lamp, robes, and a picture that was all of the first cast together
in uniform on one of the incarnations of the enterprise.  Uhura had gray
hair... I think it was the last publicity picture they had of the TOS cast.

I will say I was pleased to see Yelchin take a more prominant role as Checkov
than any other movie or story.  He did a great job.  It was sad to know it was
his last role.  It's been announced that the character will be retired and I
think he may be replaced by the new "Jayla" character... who also had a good
performance.

The nod to anton was simply "For Anton" which seemed very appropriate.

All in All I felt good about this story... it was written by Simon Pegg and his
Scotty is spot on... the Yorktown was AMAZING.... there was moer character
development in it than the first two... it had some "pacing" problems but once
it got moving it moved well.

 AK> It will be interesting to see how they handle his death for future
 AK> releases. I suspect that in the process of finding this crew they
 AK> tested other actors for the part and may go back to a "runner up" to
 AK> to take over something like the used to do for soap operas and a few TV
 AK> series.

Since they announced that his character would be retired... anything is
possible in this trek universe... it is an "Alternative" timeline.  Already
people are dead that are alive in the classic series.  Seems like they just
unraveled all of the Canon.

One thing I can say is they validated the Captain Archer's enterprise series. 
Spock wore a unicorm from that series through half the movie.

 AK> New Trek series coming out in a couple of years wonder if some of the
 AK> movie actors will transision to small screen which would be a first.

Actually Startrek Discovery will be out in January on the CBS on demand
service.  Not sure what timeline they will use but rumor is that it will be
using Roddenberry penned scripts from 200 floppy disks that they retreived data
from.

Allen
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