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Star Trek Beyond is the 13th Star Trek movie overall, the third installment since 2009's big-budget series reboot, and the first directed by Justin Lin (of the Fast & Furious franchise). Principal photography began in Vancouver. This is a movie with plenty of big, boomy sci-fi/fantasy action violence, including space battles, crashes, explosions, and it takes place in the mid-23rd century. It is a one of the production By Paramount Pictures as well as Star War. Therefore these two movies having some similarities. The story background is about a bunch of starship crew living on a starship under an exploration mission to explore new breed and to maintain the harmony of the galaxy.

The story starts when they arrives at Starbase, Yorktown for resupply. Yorktown housed several million being from across the Federation, including Hikaru Sulu’s family. It is a spherical enclosed city sized matrix with transparent shield which consisting interlocking rings. Due to its complex structure, it has a gravitational slipstream at the center of the city where buildings are built along the rings where u can see people walking upside-downed without falling.

The translucent surface is built with numerous turrets connected to each other and all armed with phasers and photon torpedos. During the Swarm attacked initiated by Krall, Yorktown is able to repel the Swarm.

Yorktown was designed by Sean Hargreaves, the Visual Effects Art Director and Senior Concept Designer of the movie. His initial design of Yorktown's arms did not feature windows looking into the passageway, however this feature was added in order to depict the Enterprise and later the Franklin flying through interior structure of the base. This addition also led to the sequence in which the Franklin rises up through a lake at Yorktown Central Plaza. The buildings in Yorktown were designed to match the real life buildings at the filming location in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Also according to Sean Hargreaves, the model for Yorktown was "enormous", approaching 100,000,000 polygons. Each of the arms of Yorktown was intended to be 171⁄2 miles long.

Yorktown

BACKGROUND + SETTING

Enterprise

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
Service: 2258–2263 (5 Years)
Captains: Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood), Spock (Zachary Quinto), James T. Kirk (Chris Pine)

Measurements 610 meters to 910 meters. Industrial Light & Magic Art Director Alex Jaeger discussed the design's growth in size during early production of the film approximately 1,200 feet (370 m) long compared to the 947 foot (289 m) ship of the original series. This would result in a height of 167m, and a beam of 339m. The ship is destroyed by an alien swarm attack of in the movie. At the end of the movie during Kirks’s birthday celebration, a new Enterprise (USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A)) first appears after the deconstruction of the original Enterprise to continue their five year mission.

Enterprise Model

Trailer

Synopsis

Three years into its five year mission, the USS Enterprise arrives at Starbase Yorktown, a massive space station for resupply. From there it was dispatched to the Necro Cloud on a mission to ostensibly rescue the stranded crew of Kalara. In truth, the Enterprise had been lured into the nebula by Krall where it was attacked and destroyed at the planet Altamid. Marooned on Altamid, the surviving crew of the Enterprise discovered that Krall had used a Magellan probe to retrieve data from the Federation including schematics of Yorktown which he meant to attack. Launching a fleet of Swarm ships, Krall attempted to deploy the super weapon known as the Abronath in Yorktown's life support system in order to wipe out all life on the base and use to it to strike other Federation worlds. Flying the 22nd century era USS Franklin into Yorktown in pursuit of Krall, Captain Kirk crashed the old Starfleet ship at Yorktown Central Plaza, then engaged with Krall, ultimately killing the despot before he could deploy the Abronath. In honor of his heroics, Kirk was offered the Vice Admiral position at Yorktown, but declined in favor of continuing to command a starship.

There is too much plot jammed into a 2-hour movie, making the whole movie very hard to understand especially for the first timer like me. Yet it does capture the exploration motif as well as emotional and social background of Star Trek. The galactic adventure might be an uneven one, but the combination of gravitas, a sense of humour makes the movie a decently entertaining trip to the final frontier. Apart from the confusing plot, it is quite insipiring that we can see Sulu embraces his male partner and child in a moment that was fleeting but touching and so I assume that they are gay couple. It is surprise that the movie maintained some sort of visibility of LGBT. By opening up LGBT stories in major films creates an opportunity for audeinces to see the world around that validates their existance in the worldwide community. The movie does not solely serve for the "ordinary" market but as well the demand of the minority group od LGBT. Somehow people are treating them unordinarily when violence and straight sex are up on the screen for all to see. Sex marriage has been legalised in U.S as well as many other western- countries so should a gay character really seems as probematic?

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable." -  Christopher Reeve

As long as you are alive you have no excuse to say you can’t. If you put your mind to it, you can do anything. Anything is possible.

Perspective

Spock : "We will do what we have always done: Find hope in the impossible."

 

Captain Kirk : "There’s no such thing as the unknown, only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood."

Quote

We think there’s a lot of unknowns. There’s not. There’s only the things we don’t know at this point in time. At some point, these unknown factors will be revealed.

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