Star Trek: Beyond' is currently scoring at over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes

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Veknoid_Outcast said:

shikamaru317 said:

Skipping it. I was disappointed by the first two JJverse Star Trek movies, and this one looked even worse in the trailers. I don't trust movie critics all that much, they don't care about things like adhering to canon and the tone of the movie compared to the old Star Trek movies, things that an old school Trekkie like myself do care about.

I'm with shika on this, although I do generally trust movie critics. I think Metacritic is a better judge of the critical consensus than RT. In that case Beyond is sitting on a 71.

This review from EW sums up everything wrong with Abrams' alternaverse: "Beyond is more fun than deep. It’s lightweight, zero-gravity Trek that is, for the most part, devoid of the sort of Big Ideas and knotty existential questions that creator Gene Roddenberry specialized in."

Looks like Beyond continues the trend.

1) It is not 1966 anymore.

2) Roddenberry was kicked off of the Star Trek Next Gen writing team because he was his own asshole that he was stuck in.  The series finally took off when he was relieved of his iron fist closed minded rule.

3) He's passe.  You can recognized this past acheivements and influences, but those who cannot move on such as these critics really need to get a life.

4) "He's dead, Jim."