'Star Trek: Beyond' by Simon Pegg and Doug Jung

The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise is now three years into their five-year mission. After a diplomatic mission to broker peace between two civilizations goes wrong, Captain Kirk returns to the Enterprise with the gift intended as a peace offering; Commander Spock logs the object, part of an ancient weapon, in the ship’s records, failing to notice that the system glitches... The Enterprise calls at the Starbase Yorktown, a huge spherical station that provides an opportunity for refuelling and shore leave. Here Kirk meets with Commodore Paris to discuss his application for Vice Admiral, and recommends Spock as the new captain of the Enterprise. Meanwhile, Spock receives the news that Ambassador Spock, his future self from the original timeline, has passed away. When an escape pod emerges from a nearby nebula, its occupant, Kalara, asks Starfleet for help in rescuing her crew, marooned on the planet Altarnid. The Enterprise is despatched on a rescue mission, but as it nears the planet, a swarm of fighter ships appears and attacks the vessel; the ambush is successful, and the crippled ship is boarded by the villainous Krall and his men, who kidnap many members of the crew. As the Enterprise is torn apart Kirk orders his crew to abandon ship, and then watches from an escape pod as the saucer section crashes onto the surface of Alternid. Kirk, Ensign Chekov and Kalara land on the planet and make for the grounded Enterprise saucer. It soon becomes apparent that Kalara is working for Krall, searching for a weapon called the Abronath, the object that Kirk retrieved from his previous mission; but Kirk has already seen through Kalara’s duplicity and hidden the object. As Kirk and Chekov are pursued through the ship by more of Krall’s men, they manage to activate the saucer’s thrusters, crushing Kalara as the ship grinds across the planet surface. Elsewhere on Alternid, Krall and his men take the captured crew, including Lieutenant Sulu and Lieutenant Uhura, to their compound. Another escape pod deposits Doctor McCoy and an injured Spock on the planet; after McCoy deals with Spock’s wound, they begin a search for the missing crew. Lieutenant Commander Scott survives his pod’s precarious landing and meets Jayla, an alien warrior who has escaped from Krall and now lives in her makeshift home: the remains of the USS Franklin, believed lost a century ago, now resting on a clifftop, hidden by adapted cloaking technology. Spock and McCoy meet up with Scotty and Jayla, and are then reunited with Kirk and Chekov; together they form a plan to rescue the Enterprise crew from Krall’s encampment and escape in the Franklin. Meanwhile, Krall forces his prisoners to hand over the Abronath, hidden in the head-claws of Ensign Syl. Uhura learns that the object is the missing half of an ancient bioweapon that was created by Alternid’s original inhabitants, and is given a demonstration of its power when Krall uses it to disintegrate Syl. After using an alien machine to drain the life essence from two crewmen to prolong his own life, Krall reveals his insane plan: using the Abronath he will seize control of the Yorktown, which he will then use to attack the Federation. Armed with the bioweapon, Krall takes the swarm of Alternid ships into space, heading for the Yorktown. Riding a motorbike found in the Franklin, Kirk creates a distraction that allows Jayla, Spock, McCoy and Chekov to free the captive crew from the rest of Krall’s men, before transporting themselves back to the ship. Lieutenant Sulu devises a plan to achieve escape velocity by dropping the Franklin off the cliff on which it sits; to everyone’s relief it works, and the Franklin blasts into space in pursuit of Krall. Scott transports Spock and McCoy into one of the swarm ships, where they discover that VHF transmissions can disrupt its communication system. Using the Franklin’s comm system and one of Kayla’s classical music recordings, Kirk and his team transit a signal that destroys the majority of the swarm, although a number of vessels still manage to breach the Yorktown, including Krall’s ship. Now reverting to a more human form, and dressed in a Starfleet uniform, Krall escapes into the crowd. Aboard the Franklin, Kirk and Uhura review the ship’s ancient logs and make a startling discovery: Krall is actually the ship’s human captain, Balthazar Edison. It seems that Edison was a soldier from the days before the Federation was formed, and he objected to its principles of unity and cooperation with former enemies. When the Franklin went through a wormhole and crashed on Alternid, Edison and his surviving crew believed the Federation had deliberately abandoned them; they used the advanced technology left by the planet's extinct natives to prolong their lives, but at the cost of their own humanity, and the lives of the victims they captured and drained over the subsequent years. Unless he is stopped Edison will use the Abronath to destroy the Federation – which will plunge the entire galaxy back into an age of conflict…

Chris Pine (Captain James T. Kirk), Zachary Quinto ( Commander Spock), Karl Urban (Doctor 'Bones' McCoy), Zoe Saldana (Lieutenant Nyota Uhura), Simon Pegg (Lieutenant Commander Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott), John Cho (Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu), Anton Yelchin (Ensign Pavel Chekov), Idris Elba (Krall), Sofia Boutella (Jaylah), Joe Taslim (Manas), Lydia Wilson (Kalara), Deep Roy (Keenser), Melissa Roxburgh (Ensign Syl), Anita Brown (Tyvanna), Doug Jung (Ben), Danny Pudi (Fi'Ja), Kim Kold (Zavanko), Fraser Aitcheson (Hider), Matthew MacCaull (Blue Shirt), Emy Aneke (Blue Shirt), Shohreh Aghdashloo (Commodore Paris), Greg Grunberg (Commander Finnegan), Jennifer Cheon(Control Tower Technician), Jarod Joseph (Control Tower Technician), Jeremy Raymond (Control Tower Technician), Harry Han (Kissing Guy), Gina Brinkman (Kissing Girl), Adam DiMarco (Injured Red Shirt), Fiona Vroom (Orion Girl), Richard Laurence (Chancellor Ambassador), Doug Chapman (Sir Olden), Dan Payne (Wadjet), Anthony Shim (Jin), Andrea Yu (Jeanine), Shea Whigham (Teenaxi Leader [voice]), Christian Sloan (Jae), Jake Huang (Krall's Henchman), Priya Rajaratnam (Night Watch Captain), Luka Hays (Enterprise Bridge Crew), Thomas Cadrot (Enterprise Bridge Crew), Jennifer W. Evans (Enterprise Bridge Crew), Roxanne Fernandes (Enterprise Bridge Crew), Jake Foy (Enterprise Bridge Crew), Jodi Haynes (Enterprise Bridge Crew), Nathan Jean (Enterprise Bridge Crew), Tarun Keram (Enterprise Bridge Crew), J.P. Mulcaster (Enterprise Bridge Crew), Edwin Rodriguez (Enterprise Bridge Crew), Alex Rose (Enterprise Bridge Crew), Polina Nikolai (Enterprise Bridge Crew), Lia Lam (Enterprise Bridge Crew), Ian Nsenga (Enterprise Bridge Crew), Ashley Edner (Natalia), Sara Maria Forsberg (Kalara Alien VO), Jeff Bezos (Starfleet Official), Justin Anthony (Swarm Soldier)**, Nicole Anthony (Enterprise Bridge Crew)**, Eric Banerd (Swarm Soldier)**, Jabbz Farooqi (Lieutenant)**, Rich Hill (Enterprise Bridge Crew)**, Rebecca Husain (Enterprise Bridge Crew)**, Sorena Khanlou (Swarm Soldier)**, James 'Jimmy Love' Lawson (Swarm Soldier)**, Simon MacIntyre (Enterprise Crew)**, Trevor Mack (Enterprise Bridge Crew)**, Natalie Moon (Control Tower Technician)**, Jeff Reyes (Swarm Soldier)**, Harpreet Sandhu (Enterprise Bridge Crew)**, Arlene Santana (Enterprise Bridge Crew)**, Jason Matthew Smith (Hendorff)**, Bryce Soderberg (Satine)**, Jamie Soricelli (Enterprise Bridge Crew)**, Adam Stone (Cabinet Member)**, Jaewon Suh (Swarm Soldier)**, Natasha Young (Enterprise Bridge Crew)**, Alan Yu (Swarm Soldier)**, Sam Yunussov (Swarm Soldier)**

**(Uncredited)
Directed by Justin Lin
Produced by J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Justin Lin and Roberto Orci
Executive producers Jeffrey Chernov, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Tommy Harper and Lindsey Weber

Released: July 2016
Certificate: 12A
Runtime: 122 min

Notes:
*Featuring Captain Commander James T. Kirk, Commander Spock, Lieutenant Commander Doctor Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, Ensign Pavel Chekov and Lieutenant Commander Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott