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Mission to come aboard, sir.

Welcome to Now Planks Star Trek Retrospective Series.

We here at Now Plank will be going at warp speed as we watch and review all installments of the Star Trek movie franchise.

Bringing you the perspective of a Star Trek novice, a casual Star Trek movie fan and a former hardcore trekker,

we will be providing spoiler-filled critiques of this long-running movie franchise.

Today we're talking about Star Trek Beyond, starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Carl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Idris Elba, and directed by Justin Lin.

This is Mr. Brock, co-host of Now Plank.

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And this is the Now Plank Go host with perfect eyesight and a full head of hair, Arnie.

Well, at least you have a full head of hair. Welcome back to Star Trek Retrospective Series.

It's been a little bit of a while here. I'm so happy we're back to talking about Star Trek and what an amazing, incredible discovery to go beyond in the Star Trek universe.

As long as it's not as dark as last time, I think I'm game for it.

I just re-listened to our Star Trek into Darkness podcast and we were marveling, oh my god, it took four years to get a sequel to JJ Abrams Star Trek four years!

Oh, how could it ever take that long? How long has it been since Into Darkness? Three years.

You know, I think they wanted to time it because this is Trek's spithiath anniversary. And, you know, I usually think that studios, they get romantic about that kind of notion.

We need to have one for a big anniversary. They wanted to get this movie out. From what I understand, this movie had a different script.

They weren't happy with it and they fired those screenwriters and hired new ones to do a rush job because it was just that important that they have a Trek movie this summer.

Yes, they hired Simon Pegg and his friend to do the rush job. I mean, it's kind of interesting that I followed all of this because I am the former director of Star Trek.

I am the former trekkie and I was very excited to continue this what they're now calling the Kelvin verse because the USS Kelvin was the ship that destroyed and all that.

So, I watched as JJ was going to do it and then JJ said he was going to do Star Wars instead of Star Trek.

Which felt like a diss, right? I mean, you gotta feel no, you know, obviously Star Wars is a bigger franchise, but that's a big war, right?

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