Thread:Rodangizzardcrusher3/@comment-26687285-20160822213306/@comment-26687285-20160915220952

I finally saw Star Trek: Beyond last sunday, and boy!, was i satisfied (apart from the 3D of course). Finally the reboots have found the right balance between spectacle and story. Much like his refusal to do Episode VIII, i'm quite releaved thath J.J. has decided to leave the director's chair for the new Trek films, the same way that i think the Avengers films are better off with the Russo's than Joss Whedon after AoU. In both cases the new filmmakers are simply more adept at telling a cohesive story while and moving things forward than the directors they're replacing.

Afterward i reflected a bit on how this film compares to Into Darkness, and i realized something. ID's story should have been a two-parter. If we had had one extra chapter between the last film and this one they not only could have resolved that movie's storylines (Khan and his crew and Kirk's death) more smoothly, it would have given more weight to the Enterprise's destruction if we had seen it and her crew go through a few more challenges and face more opponents. It would have given a more potent feeling of history and intimacy between Kirk and the ship thereby making the crash scene more emotional.

I also would have liked it if they had expanded upon the subplot with the Klingons, perhaps by having them decide to retaliate after Khan killed that group of soldiers on Kronos. Then Spock and company would have to figure out a way to capture/defeat Khan whilst trying to avoid evoking the Empire's ire.