Spoilers Star Trek Beyond references

[Cyke101]

Two things to add to the Enterprise references:

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Winged shuttlepods just like in the show, seen in the background of the black-and-white archival video of the Franklin crew.

Also, when Kirk asks about the Franklin's armament, Scotty mentions pulse phase cannons and spatial torpedoes, which were the weapons Enterprise had in its first season (and were barely any good) and quickly, um, phased out in favor of more traditional looking upgrades as the phase cannons and photonic torpedoes.

More generally...

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1990s-styled Trek sound effects, like the EMH hologram sounds used for Jaylah's own holograms, random LCARS sound effects here and there, and the Defiant's Red Alert klaxons when Yorktown first detects the enemy swarm

Did anyone here tear up when they showed the picture from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country at the very end? I did.

(Sorry, I can't find the "spoiler" option.)

I sure as hell did. I damn near saluted the screen. Possibly one of the warmest tributes I've seen in a big budget film

I nearly teared up when the Rihanna song started playing during the credits, too, because my mind was still focused on that picture. To think of all the episodes and movies that the TOS crew went through and survived as family to us, the viewer, just really resonated to me about their own legacy and strength.

Also, why did the Enterprise-A do a barrel roll when it went into warp at the end? That was kinda silly lol, but whatever. Great movie anyway!

We also had a giant green hand and creatively designed celestial objects in the same sequence. I wouldn't take the credits as canon

A doubly-sad reference:

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At Kirk's birthday celebration, he toasts to "absent friends", a probable nod to Leonard Nimoy (since the same toast in STIII was for Spock). I found it ominous that right after the toast, the camera focuses in on Chekov (Yelchin).

I believe the camera focus on Chekov was edited in after his death, though filmed for an entirely different intent.. It doesn't take that much time to do such a small change, but I'm glad they did it.

 

[Klondike307]

A doubly-sad reference:

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At Kirk's birthday celebration, he toasts to "absent friends", a probable nod to Leonard Nimoy (since the same toast in STIII was for Spock). I found it ominous that right after the toast, the camera focuses in on Chekov (Yelchin).

They must have added that shot in after his death, there's no way the timing would have randomly been so perfect in the original edit.

 

[STIntergalactic]

So there is exactly one thing I would change in Star Trek Beyond:

The Franklin was the first Warp 6 ship.

I think the idea was that this was a pre-ENT ship that they gave to an inexperienced war hero to Captain after the founding of the Federation

 

[mattman8907]

Also, why did the Enterprise-A do a barrel roll when it went into warp at the end? That was kinda silly lol, but whatever. Great movie anyway!

I'm sure Kirk told Mr. Sulu "Let's see what's she got". at least that's my theory.

 

[Tuskin38]

did it do a barrel roll, or did the camera move around it?

 

[Tuskin38]

So there is exactly one thing I would change in Star Trek Beyond:

The Franklin was the first Warp 6 ship.

It could have been build before the NX-01, and recommissioned after.

 

[Sparky]

So there is exactly one thing I would change in Star Trek Beyond:

The Franklin was the first Warp 6 ship.

My personal head cannon is that the warp scales changed between the Enterprise era and the Kelvin era. Just like it did between TOS and TNG.

 

[M-Red]

Avatar. The little white floating things that bounced around through the air (like Pandora) when the crew members first crashed on the alien world.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

Following my second viewing, you can definitely hear the Stargazer mentioned by name and registry number after the ship docks at Yorktown.

 

[yenny]

Two things to add to the Enterprise references:

Spoiler

Winged shuttlepods just like in the show, seen in the background of the black-and-white archival video of the Franklin crew.

Also, when Kirk asks about the Franklin's armament, Scotty mentions pulse phase cannons and spatial torpedoes, which were the weapons Enterprise had in its first season (and were barely any good) and quickly, um, phased out in favor of more traditional looking upgrades as the phase cannons and photonic torpedoes.

More generally...

Spoiler

1990s-styled Trek sound effects, like the EMH hologram sounds used for Jaylah's own holograms, random LCARS sound effects here and there, and the Defiant's Red Alert klaxons when Yorktown first detects the enemy swarm

I sure as hell did. I damn near saluted the screen. Possibly one of the warmest tributes I've seen in a big budget film

I nearly teared up when the Rihanna song started playing during the credits, too, because my mind was still focused on that picture. To think of all the episodes and movies that the TOS crew went through and survived as family to us, the viewer, just really resonated to me about their own legacy and strength.



We also had a giant green hand and creatively designed celestial objects in the same sequence. I wouldn't take the credits as canon



I believe the camera focus on Chekov was edited in after his death, though filmed for an entirely different intent.. It doesn't take that much time to do such a small change, but I'm glad they did it.

Sound like Starfleet took her out of mothball. Didn't bother to modernize her, just reregister her and give her to Captain Edison.

 

[Shatner_Fan]

It was definitely from this very session

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=367&pid=37948#top_display_media ?

I don't think so. That session is from V. The one we see in the movie appears to be from VI. Shatner had noticeably darker hair in V than he did in VI. The lighter haired, VI Shatner appeared to be the one I saw tonight. Also, wasn't Doohan wearing his black & white VI outfit in the pic we see in the new movie? That should settle it, but I need to see it again to be sure. In any case, what a beautiful scene.

 

[Tosk]

The one we see in the movie appears to be from VI.

It's absolutely from Star Trek 5. It's the only one where Uhura has the massive grey streaking in her hair.

 

[jamestyler]

^ Indeed. Sulu's also in the orange division and not captain in the photo - plus it's on the TFF set. Which.... is a very plain looking background.

 

[LtChange]

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Am I the only one who thought that Kirk entering the bridge with a cup of tea with the camera pulling away is a node to TUC with camera pulling away from Sulu drinking a cup of tea?

 

[starfox]

Spoiler: A similarity to The Search For Spock

Yorktown has an observation lounge with a window through which we can see the Enterprise's arrival. In Star Trek III, Spacedock has an observation lounge with a window through which we can see the Enterprise's arrival in the same direction.

 

[Captain_Amasov]

Two things to add to the Enterprise references:

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Winged shuttlepods just like in the show, seen in the background of the black-and-white archival video of the Franklin crew.

Also, when Kirk asks about the Franklin's armament, Scotty mentions pulse phase cannons and spatial torpedoes, which were the weapons Enterprise had in its first season (and were barely any good) and quickly, um, phased out in favor of more traditional looking upgrades as the phase cannons and photonic torpedoes.

One thing:

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I would've liked the Franklin to have been armed with plasma cannons instead of pulse phase cannons, just for the added extra touch noting her age.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

I think you're really stretching. Here's some obvious ones:

Spoiler: Very minor spoilers

II - Bones wishing Kirk good eyesight and a full head of hair!
III - Scotty commenting that Spock and Bones could have wound up merged after the transport

TOS - Plenty including musical cues (particularly after Kirk is in the trap), references to a giant green space hand, Kirk's line about their adventures feeling "episodic" and - my absolute favourite, Kirk commenting that his shirt was ripped again

I think there was an Admiral Paris mentioned.

Firstly, Commodore Paris was a reference to the woman he was talking to about turning down the Vice Admiralty (or so I assumed). So I don't think that's a voyager reference.

The reference to Spock and McCoy getting spliced together as "That would pretty much be the worst thing ever" was an obvious reference (and dig) against Voyager that made me smile endlessly.

I also think the reference to Beastie Boys as "classical music" was a dig against the more vitriolic corner of fandom that continues to insist that Star Trek is supposed to be "the classical music of science fiction, not rock and roll."

 

[The Rock]

We also had a giant green hand and creatively designed celestial objects in the same sequence. I wouldn't take the credits as canon

They showed the giant green hand in the credits?! I saw the movie twice and I missed that!

 

[Cyke101]

One thing:

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I would've liked the Franklin to have been armed with plasma cannons instead of pulse phase cannons, just for the added extra touch noting her age.

You're right, I'm wrong. I pictured the plasma cannons when I made my post, though Scotty outright says the phase cannons. His addition of the spatial torpedoes made me think of Broken Bow.

On a side note though, there's one nitpick I must make as a card-carrying Trekkie -- when the Franklin opens fire, it looks like any other phaser in the JJverse, and not quite like anything in Enterprise. In light of your post, I'm now imagining Franklin firing beam phasers at the swarm. Alas...

They showed the giant green hand in the credits?! I saw the movie twice and I missed that!

I don't remember *exactly* when in the credits, but it's on the left side of the screen. At first it looks like a green nebula, but the closer we get, the more defined the fingers become. But it happens at such great speed and in a specific part of the screen that it becomes easy to miss, though it does grow larger the closer we get.

 

[Sparky]

I don't think so. That session is from V. The one we see in the movie appears to be from VI. Shatner had noticeably darker hair in V than he did in VI. The lighter haired, VI Shatner appeared to be the one I saw tonight. Also, wasn't Doohan wearing his black & white VI outfit in the pic we see in the new movie? That should settle it, but I need to see it again to be sure. In any case, what a beautiful scene.

This is the photo

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