Star Trek: Beyond (12A)

A return to the future with the new Star Trek movie, which is about the 17^th movie in the franchise, and definitely the 3^rd movie in this rebooted franchise with the young cast, playing Kirk, Spock, Uhura and company.
It’s fifty years this year since the Star Trek trip to the stars began on US television, and it became a great classic which spawned four more television series from the 1980s onwards, and nearly a score of movies, writes David Flynn.
This version of the space saga began in 2009, and has been a huge success.  Star Trek: Beyond, begins during the third year of the crew’s five year mission to explore space.  Kirk, played by Chris Pine is feeling unsatisfied with his time in orbit, and is looking to hand over the reins to his second in command, Spock, played by Zachary Quinto.
Shades of the earlier tv series comes in when the Enterprise’s bosses, Starfleet, sends the crew to the aid of an alien girl whose family and crew is trapped in the farthest reaches of space.  But what they discover there attacks the Enterprise, and disperses Captain Kirk and his crew all over an inhospitable planet.   With scant resources the crew must work to get themselves safely back to Starfleet and to Earth.
In their way, is a being of mystery, as per usual in Star Trek.
Special effects are fantastic, but it’s hard to know nowadays whether it’s creations on a computer screen you are looking at, or something more spectacular.  But it all looks good.
The plot could be better, and tries to be throwback to the earlier decades of the Star Trek future.  It somewhat succeeds.