A story that feels like classic Trek
Beyond is set roughly three years into the USS Enterprise’s five-year mission and begins with a typical Trek premise: a crew battling with what it means to go on, deep space fatigue, and diplomatic oddities. When the ship answers an alien’s call for help in a nearby nebula, the rescue turns out to be a trap that leads to the destruction of the Enterprise, and the crew marooned on a dangerous planet.
As the crew is stripped of their well-known ship, the story switches into a more character-oriented mode where trust, creativity, and problem-solving take the place of technobabble shortcuts. It will especially appeal to longstanding Trek fans since it’s the kind of plot development that would seem at home in an ambitious two-part episode, scaled up with feature film graphics and stakes.
