It’s actually refreshing for a big-screen Star Trek to have a ‘regular episode’ feel, though (i) Elba’s Krall is yet another in a line of snarling one-use-only big bads, (ii) giving Pegg his head as writer and actor mostly means better jokes and a rare case of the female guest star ( Sofia Boutella) bantering with someone other than the Captain, and (iii) importing director Justin Lin from the Fast & Furious franchise turns out to be a very mixed blessing. A quite subtle revision is made: longtstanding criticisms of the military bent of Roddenberry’s utopia are addressed by having an actual violent militarist complain that his conflict-based way of life was wiped out to make way for the ‘unity’ of the Federation (the way this Star Trek franchise wiped out the older ones?) and a blunt statement that Starfleet is not a military force (though it still packs photon torpedoes).
Rather than the mutated Earth space probe V’Ger of Star Trek The Motion Picture, a mutated Earth space captain ( Idris Elba snarling as a lizard-skinned morphing semi-vampire) reappears as a major threat.
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In contrast with Abrams’ films, which set out alternate versions of scenarios from the old series (Into Darkness reworks Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), this coins a Roddenberry-esque idea. Over the course of five or six series and three not-quite separate film franchises, the science fiction elements have withered away – the show attracted a fandom in the first place because of the characters and the furniture (the Enterprise), not the ideas. Realising he was stronger on the uniform elements – chain of command, differences between officers, the bonding of men in combat – than the idea-intensive business of creating ‘strange new worlds’, Roddenberry hired name science fiction writers like Theodore Sturgeon, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch and Harlan Ellison to contribute scripts. Gene Roddenberry’s original Star Trek conception (which may have been influenced by the 1956 film Forbidden Planet) was a spacefaring science fiction series with a uniformed ensemble (his other writer or producer credits include cavalry, cop and military shows like The Lieutenant, Police Story and West Point). After this new adventure, both men quietly drop these ideas – just as Quinto and Chris Pine renegotiated their contracts to stay with whatever version of the Enterprise rolls out of dry dock to replace the one trashed here. Left stranded in a rugged wilderness, Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and the rest of the crew must now battle a deadly alien race while trying to find a way off their hostile planet.A fairly underheated element of Simon Pegg and Doug Jung’s script is the possible break-up of the new team, with Kirk (still suffering from Daddy issues that are likely to recur, since Chris Hemsworth – briefly seen as Kirk Sr two films ago – has signed up for the next instalment) considering a non-flying rear admiral job and Spock estranged from human girlfriend Uhura because he feels a responsibility to further the endangered Vulcan race by seeking a mate from his destroyed homeworld (without getting into the complications of the Vulcan mating urge from the well-remembered Amok Time episode). Krall needs an ancient and valuable artifact that's aboard the badly damaged starship.
The assault came from Krall (Idris Elba), a lizard-like dictator who derives his energy by sucking the life out of his victims. A surprise attack in outer space forces the Enterprise to crash-land on a mysterious world.
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