Watch the original Star Trek cast react to the Star Trek Beyond trailer
"We can only take a few more seconds of this!"
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Your support makes all the difference.The trailer for Star Trek Beyond dropped recently and, let's just say, people aren't too happy about.
The reaction made enough of a ruckus, in fact, that director Justin Lin had to step in and defend the trailer's breezy, comedically-driven tone. Even Simon Pegg, who both plays Scotty and co-wrote the script, admitted that he wasn't a fan of what had been whipped up by the marketing team.
But that hasn't stopped the original Enterprise crew from wading into the furore; or, more accurately, wading in via the sublime editing techniques of YouTube channel owner Auralnauts.
Surprise, surprise; the reaction is not positive. Indeed, it's phaser-this-immediately-level negative.
Hilarious, yes; but it's also a fairly accurate reflection of the general fan consensus, largely horrified at how seemingly dumb-downed the once cerebrally-inclined franchise has become. Captain Kirk's traditional stylings of tactical negotiation have long been blown to smithereens and replaced with, motorcycle-jumping?
Tech Insider recently showed Mr. Sulu himself, George Takei, the trailer and he wasn't too impressed either. He stated, “It doesn’t have that element that made Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry‘s Star Trek, what it was. It looked like a terrific action-adventure movie. A lot of clinging on cliffs and getting smashed against rocks, so it should be a very successful Star Trek movie.
I didn’t in the preview note anything of the substance of what made Gene Roddenberry‘s Star Trek so engaging and it was the commentary on social justice, political reality at the time."
Star Trek Beyond hits UK theatres 22 July.
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